Do You Know Your Animal Spirit Guide?
I love all living creatures, and one of my animal spirit guides has been visiting me in dreams since childhood. Our angels and guides often send us animals as messengers. It’s not unusual for a bird, butterfly, or four-legged creature to show up during a reading, offering a special message or healing.
As a spiritual seeker, intuitive, and healer, you are likely working closely with the animal spiritual realm, too. Discovering and connecting with your personal power animal can transform your life, expanding your spirituality and wisdom.
The Divine Wisdom of Animals
Animals carry Divine wisdom and healing medicine. They are part of the Divine intelligence that guides you through life—warning you of potential danger, offering insight, and directing you to your highest path. This Divine Intelligence communicates through many channels, always working to get your attention. Fully stepping onto the path of healing and Divine wisdom means embracing the powerful, ego-less teachings of nature.
Like angels, animal guides come as guardians to support, strengthen, and teach us. Every native culture honors the deep symbolism and significance of our animal brothers and sisters who walk, slither, crawl, swim, and fly alongside us on this beautiful planet.
How Animal Spirit Guides Work
You have at least one animal spirit guide with you at all times, though they may change depending on your current life challenges. Some may show up at certain times to help you through your life stages, others may be with you constantly. You may dream of these animals, or have a natural lifelong affinity to them.
Here are some examples:
- If you’re going through a major life transition, a snake may appear to help you heal, shed the old and embrace the new.
- If you are committed to your spiritual path you may receive an owl, lion, wolf, eagle or another power animal to walk beside you.
- Facing a difficult situation? A lion or panther might offer you courage, protection, and strength.
- Struggling with stress or health issues? A sloth could be with you to remind you to slow down, while a dolphin teaches you to breathe more deeply.
Animals can be sent as messengers too. Pay attention to the animals that cross your path—they may carry a message for you!
- A butterfly landing near you might be a sign from a deceased loved one or a message of transformation.
- A bird flying directly in front of your car may be a warning to slow down.
- Some birds are messengers from your loved ones or from your angels!
- A horse represents freedom, movement and power.
- Repeated sightings of the same animal—whether in dreams, in real life, or even in images—can indicate a deeper connection.
My Personal Experience with Kookaburra
One of my most profound animal guide experiences happened when I became an Australian citizen. On the day of my ceremony, a friend gifted me a stuffed kookaburra, and later that day, I found myself in front of a shop called Kookaburra Gifts. Then while sitting at a picnic bench, a local Gumbaynggirr Aboriginal man approached, shared that the kookaburra was his totem, and told me it was now mine, too. Ever since, kookaburras have appeared at key moments in my life, offering guidance and reassurance.
More recently, when commissioning a shaman’s rattle, I asked Spirit what animal should be painted on it. That very day, a kookaburra flew right at me and landed at my feet! Amazingly, the artist—hundreds of kilometers away—received the same message that my rattle was to have a Kookaburra. Weeks later, the day my rattle arrived, a kookaburra perched on my mailbox. These magical confirmations show how powerfully our animal guides communicate with us.
How to Connect with Your Animal Spirit Guide
Want to discover your own animal spirit guide? Here are some ways to tune in:
- Notice animals in your dreams. If a specific animal appears more than once, it’s trying to get your attention.
- Pay attention to real-life encounters. Memorable interactions with animals may be messages from Spirit.
- Tune into your intuition. Are you inexplicably drawn to a particular animal? Consider what qualities it embodies and how they might apply to your life.
- Look for symbolic appearances. Even if you don’t see an animal in real life, repeated images that you see online, in books or in your mindseye during meditations can be a sign.
- Meditate with intention. Set the intent to meet your animal guide, then visualize yourself sitting by a fire in a cave. See a figure approaching the doorway—this is your animal guide.
Remember, every animal—whether it’s a butterfly, a wolf, or even a crocodile—has a lesson to teach you. Trust in their wisdom!
Deepen Your Spiritual Connection
Angels communicate with us in many forms—including through animal guides. If you’d like to develop your intuitive abilities and receive clearer guidance from the Divine, I invite you to take the next step on your journey:
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Wishing you a magical and blessed week ahead!
Angel blessings,
Rachel Scoltock
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Rachel Scoltock is an Angel Medium, Spiritual Teacher, Healer and Author
Rachel Scoltock is an Angel Medium and Spiritual Teacher who has been sharing the angels messages and healing for more than 20 years. She can help you to connect with your angels, and tap into your intuition so you can receive the messages of healing, wisdom, and love waiting for you.
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