How to Connect with Animal Spirits
How and Why to Invoke Animal Spirit Guides
Invoke animal spirit guides for protection and healing. You can do this by meditation, casting spells, using physical objects or through card-reading.
Working with the energies of different animals can be powerful and enlightening. It can be a comfort to connect with an animal spirit. When we don't live near parks or bodies of water, or rarely get a chance to spend time outside, we can lose touch with nature. By connecting on a spiritual level with the natural world, we can restore a sense of calm, balance and harmony inside. There are many ways you can work with these energies, and many reasons for doing so.
Reasons for Invoking Animal Spirits
1. Upcoming Situations: There may be an event coming up in your life that you feel you could use some encouragement and support with. Connecting with a courageous or powerful animal can help bring these attributes to you and your situation.
2. Healing: Many animals posess healing qualities. Depending on your situation, invoking an animal or animals will help guide the healing process.
3. Protection: There may be a situation where you've given away your power to someone or something. Invoking certain animal spirits can help you connect with inner power, boundaries and assertiveness.
How to Connect with Animal Spirits
1. Meditation: Going into a quiet, meditative space within and asking to invoke an animal spirit guide is a simple and easy thing to do. Find a quiet spot; somewhere you can be alone and without interruption. Calm your mind, relax your body and focus on your breath. When you feel calm and connected, envision the particular animal. You may find that you are walking a path together, or sitting together. Perhaps you are holding the animal or the animal is holding you. Communicate with the animal using words, thoughts, feelings and be open to receive any messages. Be sure to thank the animal spirit before returning your conscious mind back to the physical world. You may find that you received a message from the animal or not - but connecting is in itself very healing and empowering.
2. Casting Spells: Before casting a spell, be sure you are doing it for the right reasons. Casting evil spells is karmic suicide and putting negative energy out into the world is the last thing we need more of. First, find out how to cast a spell, before proceeding. Now, if you are going to cast a spell and wish to use the energy of animal spirit guides, choose your animal for the characteristics it brings. So if you're doing a love spell, choose an animal that symbolizes love, such as a swan or dove. If you are doing a healing spell, choose an animal that has healing qualities such as a frog or turtle.
3. Physical Manifestations: Use small figurines, pictures or jewelry that has pictures (etc.) of the animal spirit you are wishing to invoke. Physical objects make it easy for your subconscious and conscious mind to interact. Every time you see the object, a message is sent to your subconscious, reminding it to be connected to the particular energy of the animal. You can slip these objects into a pocket, or wear them, or have them as ornaments in your home or office, or wherever.
4. Card Reading: This one is a lot of fun. You can buy all kinds of awesome decks for card reading. You can either do it yourself, or have a professional card reader do it for you. This type of communication between you and the spirit world can be very exciting and powerful. You are almost guaranteed to learn something new by using this method.
Read more about: which animals to connect with for protection, healing and spirituality.
