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Shamanic Animal Correspondences Logan City Study Group

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SHAMANIC

ANIMAL

CORRESPONDENCES


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Albatross's Wisdom Includes:

• Endurance• Ability to remain in emotional situations for extended periods of time• Awkward, but effective beginnings and endings• Understands the effectiveness of extended parenting• Stamina

Anemone's Wisdom Includes:

• Beauty• Graceful movement• Use of color• Patience

Ant's Wisdom Includes:

• Patience• Stamina• Planning• Energy and patience needed to complete work• Communal living• Storing for the future

Anteater's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to find lost objects• Connection to the insect world• Ability to smell out trouble before seeing it• Understanding the value of "rooting around" to find solutions

Antelope's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding the conversation of death• Value of strong survival skills• Ability to leap over obstacles• Swiftness• Gentleness• Connection to the earth

Armadillo's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding your personal boundary• Respecting the boundaries of others• Carrying your protection with you at all times• Understanding your vulnerabilities• Empathy• Discrimination


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Aye-Aye's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to use non-conformity to ones advantage• Use of appearance• Ability to see in the dark

Baboon's Wisdom Includes:

• Defense of family• Sacred to the God Thoth (God of wisdom)• Sacred to the God Hapi (God of the Nile

Thoth is sometimes portrayed as a baboon as he stands in the Judgment Hall of Osirus in the landof the dead. Ancient records say that four apes sit beside the Lake of Fire near the throne ofOsirus. They listen to all appeals of the soul and judge it before it can pass into the lands ofOsirus.

Baboon, Mandrill's Wisdom Includes:

• Beauty• Maternal wisdom• Secretive behavior• Shyness• Ability to control sexual urges

Bacteria/Protozoa's Wisdom Includes:

• Quick movement• Simplicity• Understanding the primitive• Use of size to escape detection

Badger's Wisdom Includes:

• Keeper of stories• Bold Self-Expresssion• Aggressiveness• Single-mindedness• Passion• Cunning• Revenge• Perseverance• Control• Antidote to passivity or victimization• Persistence in the service of a mission• Groundedness• Knowledge of the earth• Earth magick and wisdom


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• Creative action in a crisis• Protection of rights and spiritual ideas

Bat's Wisdom Includes:

• Shamanic death and rebirth• Pollination of new ideas• Transition• Initiation• Viewing past lives• Understanding grief• The use of vibrational sound• Camouflage• Invisibility• Ability to observe unseen

Bear's Wisdom Includes:

• Introspection• Healing• Solitude• Change• Communication with Spirit• Death and rebirth• Transformation• Astral travel• Creature of dreams, shamans and mystics• Visionaries• Defense and revenge• Wisdom

Beaver's Wisdom Includes:

• Maintaining the ability to be productive in all ways by not limiting your options• Being persistent• Using available resources• Using alternate ways of doing tasks• Master builder of all things• Not damming the flow of experiences in life• Achievement through completion of tasks• Understanding dynamics of group work

Bee Eater's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to see auras• Use of color in healing• Capture of moving objects• Ability to dig to find answers


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Bee's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the Goddess Diana• Understanding female warrior energy• Reincarnation• Communication with the dead• Helping earth-bound spirits move on to their proper place• Concentration• Prosperity

Beetle/Ladybug's Wisdom Includes:

• Carries the Golden Strand that leads to the Center of the Universe• Past lives• Spiritual enlightenment• Death and Rebirth

Binturong/Bearcat's Wisdom Includes:

• Communication by alternative means• Ability to interchange senses – i.e. replace vision with smell• Solitude• Defense of personal space• Ability to see in dark places• Territoriality

Blackbird's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the water plant kingdom• Doing trance work• Use of camouflage in protection of family• Ability to sway with the winds of change

Bluebird's Wisdom Includes:

• Happiness• Movement to new level of being• Modesty• Fulfillment• Confidence• Ability to return from the brink of extinction

Bobcat's Wisdom Includes:

• Clear vision in dark places• Vigilance• Suspicion• Seeking ancient mystical mysteries


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• Ability to live in solitude• Ability to see through masks

Booby's Wisdom Includes:

• Fearlessness• Trust• Agility in water• Courtship display• Understanding layers• Depth perception

Buffalo/Bison's Wisdom Includes:

• Earth Creativity• Feminine courage• Abundance• Knowledge• Generosity• Hospitality• Sharing work• Courage• Strength• Challenge• Survival• Giving for the greater good• Formulating beneficial plans

Bush Baby's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to see in darkness• Proper use of terrritory• Quick movement• Ability to adapt

Butterfly/Caterpillar's Wisdom Includes:

• The power of the whirlwind• Reincarnation• Transformation• Transmutation• Magick

Canary's Wisdom Includes:

• Beauty of voice• Use of song in healing• Finding your soul’s song


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• Happiness• Ability to find joy in song during times in darkness/shadow

Camel/Dromedary's Wisdom Includes:

• Learning to walk in the shifting sands of time• Understanding the vastness of space• Ability to save for future use• Understanding the value of water as a life force• Transforming the burdens we carry

Caracara's Wisdom Includes:

• National bird of Mexico• Attraction to the color Red• Clear vision• Connection to wetlands• Ability to see problems sharply

Cardinal/Redbird's Wisdom Includes:

• Courtship• Fatherhood• Understanding the power of the wind• Finding your soul song

Cassowary's Wisdom Includes:

• Shyness• Vulnerability• Connection to the Rainforest• Use of protective armor

Cat, Domestic's Wisdom Includes:

• Independence• Seeing the unseen• Protection• Love• Allows us to dream its dreams• Assists in meditation• Ability to fight when cornered

Centipede's Wisdom Includes:

• Balance• Coordination• Ability to survive stress


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• Beauty of movement

Chameleon's Wisdom Includes:

• Use of color as camouflage• Using reach as a tool of survival• Patience• Ability to climb to attain ones goals• Using the Sun as a source of power

Cheetah's Wisdom Includes:

• Brotherhood• Elusiveness• Ability to focus intently on something for a short period of time• Swiftness• Self-esteem• Accelerating time• Keenness of sight

Chickadee's Wisdom Includes:

• The bird of truth• Truthful expression• Understanding the power of small things• All aspects of attitude• Use of voice

Chicken/Cock/Hen's Wisdom Includes:

• Power of voice• Understanding language• Pecking out the answers that escape others• Awakening powers at sunrise• Protection of family and community• Hearing your inner voice

Chimpanzee's Wisdom Includes:

• Intelligence• Understanding societal complexity• Language skills• Dexterity• Connection to the forest spirits• Problem solving• Ability to balance compassion and aggression

Chipmunk's Wisdom Includes:


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• Gathering• Ability to regulate usage• Saving for future use• Mobility by carrying your nourishment (both spiritual and physical) with you.• Ability to see both light and shadow

Civet's Wisdom Includes:

• Love of solitude• Effect use of pheromones• Connection to the night

Clam/Mussel's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to siphon energy• Living within the Earth• Balance• Symbiosis• Connection to mud• Going within

Cobra's Wisdom Includes:

• Soul guide• Memory of the soul world• Transmutation of the soul• Past Life memories• Wisdom of the Goddess• Freedom from religious persecution

Cockatoo's Wisdom Includes:

• Understands the power of sunrise• Ability to survive harsh conditions• Communication skills• Beauty

Cockroach's Wisdom Includes:

• Speed to avoid harm• Understanding shadow• Moving through fear• Understanding disgust in others

Conch's Wisdom Includes:

• Effective evolution• Use of color as camouflage


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• Ability to use hardness of one’s outer shell as defense

Coral's Wisdom Includes:

• The animal flower of the sea• Providing a living environment for all• Understanding of the need for diversity• Communal living• Symbiosis

Cormorant's Wisdom Includes:

• Use of the Sun as a healing agent• Patience• Ability to spear what is needed

Cougar/Mountain Lion/Puma's Wisdom Includes:

• Using leadership power wisely and without ego• Balancing power, intention, strength• Gaining self-confidence• Freedom from guilt• Cunning

For the Zunis of Turtle Island (Southwest United States), Cougar was the Master Hunter, knownfor its high intelligence, its knowledge of other animal and life forms, its physical prowess, itsstrength of will, and its intuitive ability. Cougar sees the maintenance of its territory as essential forits survival. Poshaiankia, the father of the Medicine Societies, designated Cougar the duty ofcarrying messages from humans to the higher spirits, because of this animal’s personal power,superior knowledge, strength of will, and steadfastness. Therefore, Cougar represents the linkbetween ourselves and the most powerful spirits in Zuni Mythology: Mother Earth, Father Sky, andthe Originator of All.

Cow/Bull's Wisdom Includes:

• Being alert to danger• Contentment• Cow: Connection to the Great Mother Goddess• Love• Connection to the grasses• Sharing through community• Bull: Ability to stand your ground

Coyote's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding that all things are sacred--yet nothing is sacred• Teaching that only when all masks have fallen will we connect with the Source


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• Intelligence• Singing humans into being• Childhood trust in truth• Teaching us how to rear our young• Brings rain• Ability to laugh at one’s own mistakes• Placing the North Star• Shape-shifting• Teaching balance between risk and safety• Illumination• Stealth

Crab's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to escape by moving sidewise• Understanding the power of dance• Ability to move through water (emotions)• Male aspects of community• Finding new uses for the seemingly useless• Protection of home space

Crab, Hermit 's Wisdom Includes:

• Love of freedom• Mobility• Ability to live anywhere• Understands the need for rapid change• Movement through decades• Ability to store water energy• Comfort in darkness

Crane's Wisdom Includes:

• Symbol of spring and light• Astral travel• New knowledge• Seeing all things associated with secrets• Wisdom• Seeks to help others on their paths• Longevity• Elegance• Using voice uniquely

Cricket's Wisdom Includes:

• Good luck• Teaching the power of song in darkness• Finding ones way out of darkness by following their song


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• Understanding the time to jump out of a situation• Communication• Connection to the plant kingdom

Crocodile/ Alligator 's Wisdom Includes:

• Maternal protection• Connection to the earth mother• Protection from manipulation• Understanding deceit• Revenge through patience• Initiation• Understanding weather• Access to ancient knowledge

Crow/Rook's Wisdom Includes:

Look with the innocence of the maiden,feel with the instincts of the mother,see with the eyes of the Crone.(Goddess who wears the Triple CROWn)

• Guardian of the place before existence• Linear time vision - sees past, present and future all at once• Evolutionized form of Velociraptor• Honoring ancestors• Carrier of souls from darkness into light• Working without fear in darkness• Guidance while working in shadow• Moves freely in the void• Understands all things related to ethics• Shapeshifter

Cuckoo's Wisdom Includes:

• Efficiency• Adaptability• Symbol of Spring• New beginnings• Meeting ones fate

Deer/Hart's Wisdom Includes:

• Gentleness in word, thought and touch• Ability to listen• Grace and appreciation for the beauty of balance• Understanding of what's necessary for survival• Power of gratitude and giving• Ability to sacrifice for the higher good


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• Connection to the woodland goddess• Alternative paths to a goal

Deer - Caribou/Reindeer's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to home over long distances• Power of wandering• Protection while traveling• Social skills• Retention of ones power in group situations• Ability to go long periods in the dark

Deer - Elk's Wisdom Includes:

• Stamina• Strength• Sensual passion• Honoring those of your gender• Ability to pace oneself in tasks

Dingo's Wisdom Includes:

• Reborn Human Soul• Assistance in hunting• Finding warmth in cold situations• Companionship• Tracking skills• Loyalty• Understanding silence• Finding the truth• Protection• Willingness to follow through• Correct use of intuition

Dog's Wisdom Includes:

• Heals emotional wounds in humans• Understanding of the duality of doubt and faith• Companionship• Unquestioned loyalty• Love• Knowledge of all things sensual• Protection• Ability of smell trouble from a distance

Dhole/Asisan Whistling Dog's Wisdom Includes:

• Communal living


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• Adaptability• Use of voice• Intelligence• Individuality• Coordination• Ability to remain unique• Understanding persecution

Dolphin/Porpoise's Wisdom Includes:

• Knowledge of the sea• Patron of sailors• Change• Wisdom• Balance• Harmony• Communication skills• Freedom• Trust• Understanding the power of rhythm in your life• Use of breath to release intense emotions• Water element magick

Donkey/Ass/Burro's Wisdom Includes:

• Stubbornness• Ability to make decisions• Refusing to move when you know it isn’t right• Saying "no" to others• Ignoring others opinions

Dove/Pigeon's Wisdom Includes:

• Brings peace and love• Understanding of gentleness• Spirit messenger• Communicates between the two worlds

Dragon's Wisdom Includes:

• Born of Fire• Protector• Exists between thoughts• Ability to move between worlds• Connection to the birth of the Universe• Red Dragon sleeps in the core of the Earth

Dragonfly/Damselfly's Wisdom Includes:


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• Mastery of life on the wing• Power of flight• Power to escape a blow• Understanding dreams• Power of light• Breaking down illusions• Seeing the truth in situations• Swiftness• Change• Connection to Dragon

Duck's Wisdom Includes:

• Grace on water• Water energy• Seeing clearly through emotions• Spirit helper of mystics and seers

Dugong /Manatee's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to walk gently upon the Earth• Gentleness• Seeing clearly what lives in water (emotions)• Connection to water herbs

Eagle (Bald)'s Wisdom Includes:

• Swiftness• Strength• Courage• Wisdom• Keen sight• Illumination of Spirit• Healing• Creation• Knowledge of magick• Ability to see hidden spiritual truths• Rising above the material to see the spiritual• Ability to see the overall pattern• Connection to spirit guides and teachers• Great power and balance• Dignity with grace• Ability to see the "big picture"• Connection with higher truths• Intuitive and creative spirit• Respect for the boundaries of the regions• Grace achieved through knowledge and hard work


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Eagle - Falcon/Krestal/Merlin's Wisdom Includes:

• Assisting in soul healing• Accompanying the soul back to the soul world• Teaching swiftness• Learning the aerobatics of life• Controlling speed and movement• Understanding magick

Eagle, Golden's Wisdom Includes:

• Illumination• Understands the cycles of the Sun• All aspects of clear vision• The Solar Bird• Spiritual power• Sees from the highest places• Courage• Strength

Eagle, Kite's Wisdom Includes:

• Prophecy• Communication with the spirit world• Ability to see overall picture• Clarity of vision• Beauty of flight• Ability to see things from a distance• Movement• Change

Eagle, Osprey's Wisdom Includes:

• Keen sight in seeing through illusions• Authority• Freedom of spirit• Keen vision while hunting in the waters of emotion• Connection to the moon• Understanding weather, especially lightning

Eagle, Sea 's Wisdom Includes:

• Carries souls back to the dreamtime• Soul world memory• Retrieves lost soul parts• Oversees soul retrievals

Echidna's Wisdom Includes:


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• Connection to water legends• Ability to tunnel under life blocks• Connection to the freshwater turtle• Single-mindedness• Understanding the value of "rooting around" to find solutions

Egret's Wisdom Includes:

• Provides safe passage to the soul world• Brings peace• Provides self-confidence in personal matters• Ability to rely on oneself

Elephant's Wisdom Includes:

• Strength• Royalty• Connection to ancient wisdom• Removal of obstacles and barriers• Confidence• Patience• Using education opportunities

Emu's Wisdom Includes:

• The seven sisters who became the Pleiades• Connection to the sun• Possesses wisdom of the ancestors• Shyness• Abundance• Speed• Monogamy• Paternal rearing of young

Fantail's Wisdom Includes:

• Curiosity• Ability to change directions quickly• Inter-species communication• Connection to water spirits

Finch's Wisdom Includes:

• Power of diversity• Group living• Use of song (voice) in ones life

Firefly's Wisdom Includes:


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• Ability to find light in the darkness• Use of light for communication• Ability to communicate with Color

Fish's Wisdom Includes:

• Abundance• Fertility• Children• Harmony• Regeneration• Love• Balance between mind and emotion

Fish, Angel's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding beauty as popularity and protection• Effective use of color• Ability to live within diverse situations• Connection to Reefs

Fish, Barracuda's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to male warrior energy• Fierceness• Protection• Defense

Fish, Bass' Wisdom Includes:

• Communication• Scrappiness• Participation• Parenting skills• Crafty• Elusive

Fish, Butterfly Cod/Lionfish's Wisdom Includes:

• Facing danger• Ability to stand your ground• Hidden peril• Use of beauty as defense• Peril associated with beauty• Camouflage• Use of shape as a warning• Deadly speed


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Fish, Carp's Wisdom Includes:

• Youth• Bravery• Endurance• Strength• Self-defense• Prosperity

Fish, Clown Fish/Anemone Fish's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to hide within dangerous situations• Use of beauty as camouflage• Ability to move as your enemies move• Transmutation of poison• Defense of beauty

Fish, Eel's Wisdom Includes:

• Camouflage• Ability to watch unseen• Escape when threatened• Power of electricity

Fish, Flying's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to make leaps of faith• Understanding of how to use emotional energy to ones advantage• Ability to leap out of emotional waters• Quick movement from emotional to mental thought

Fish, Goldfish/Koi's Wisdom Includes:

• Prosperity• Beauty• Harmony• Balance between mind and emotion• Peace

Fish, Leafy Seadragon's Wisdom Includes:

• Camouflage• Beauty• Paternal protection• Use of armor in defense

Fish, Lungfish's Wisdom Includes:


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• Ability to constantly touch and sense surroundings• Connects air, water and land• Ability to harden one’s skin to weather hard times• Connection to the past (Living Fossil)• Connection to Amphibians• Understands the value of dormancy• Ancestrally related to the four-footed land animals• Connection to dreams (hibernation)

Fish, Marlin/Kijiki's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to shake off negative energy• Freedom fighter• Ability to pierce the shell of an enemy• Grand entrances• Tenacity• Bravery

Fish, Minnow's Wisdom Includes:

• Power of group protection• Connection to youth• Understanding peer issues• Issues related to size• Maintaining the self within the group

Fish, Perch's Wisdom Includes:

• Movement from cloudy to clear water• Boldness• Aggression• Defense by rear attack• Ability to locate what is needed

Fish, Piranha's wisdom includes:

• Service to the river and the life within it• Savagery• Tearing apart enemies• Understanding the power of groups• Ability to totally consume (use) what is given to you

Fish, Pufferfish/Blowfish/Porcupine Fish's Wisdom Includes:

• The fatal beauty• Defense through inducing fear in ones enemy• Transmutation of poison• Power to induce death-like state


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• Use of size as a deterrent

Fish, Salmon's Wisdom Includes:

• Value of returning home to regenerate• Swimming upstream through emotional waters to gain insight• Understanding divination messages• Rebirth of spiritual knowledge

Fish, Siamese Fighting's Wisdom Includes:

• Ferocity• Aggression• Protection of boundaries within relationships• Solitude• Understanding the nature of violence• Warrior energy• Confrontation of ego

Fish, Starfish's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the star people• Regeneration• Moon magick• Beauty• Tidal movement

Flamingo's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to filter soul lessons from emotional waters• Understanding the language of color• Ability to maintain soul purpose in group living• Understanding how to maintain balance

Flea's Wisdom Includes:

• Metamorphosis• Ability to alter time within the life cycle• Sensitivity to light• Ability to trigger a birth process by the use of light, vibration, or the various components of

air

Flicker's Wisdom Includes:

• Complex use of color• Connection to open woodlands, savannas, and forest edges• Secretive movement• Ability to hear the Earth’s hearbeat


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Fly's wisdom includes:

• Survival• Multifaceted vision• Ability to change waste into valuable assets• Transformation• Adaptation to the harshest environments

Fly, Fruit's Wisdom Includes:

• Transformation• Multifaceted vision• Ability to mutate as needed• Courtship display• Connection to color

Flycatcher's Wisdom Includes:

• Proper use of Diversion• Deceiving enemies• Rapid change of direction• Ability to judge distance

Fox's Wisdom Includes:

• Shapeshifting• Cleverness• Observational skills• Cunning• Stealth• Camouflage• Feminine courage• Invisibility• Ability to observe unseen• Persistence• Gentleness• Swiftness

Frigatebird's Wisdom Includes:

• Using language to survive• Navigation skills• Ability to carry messages• Sign to sailors that land is near• Ability to maneuver in the air• Flight skills

Frog's Wisdom Includes:


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• Reminder of common bonds with all life• Singer of songs that celebrate the most ancient watery beginnings• Transformation• Cleansing• Understanding emotions• Rebirth

Gazelle's Wisdom Includes:

• Speed• Agility• Beauty• Grace• Vertical movement• Ability to maneuver

Giraffe's Wisdom Includes:

• Sees far into the future• Ability to reach things that are unreachable to others• Communication• Intuition• Ability to remain above the fray

Goat's Wisdom Includes:

• Abundance• Independence• Surefootedness• Removing guilty feelings• Understanding nature energies and beings• Seeking new heights• Agility

Goldfinch's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding the value of change• Ability to resolve family conflicts in a healthy manner• Creating balance in dealing with different peoples• Understanding the power of voice

Goose's Wisdom Includes:

• Movement along ones soul path• Understanding the power of community• Assisting others through illness• Happiness


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Gorilla's Wisdom Includes:

• Intelligence• Gentleness• Maternal instinct• Use of speech• Benevolence

Grackle's Wisdom Includes:

• Comfort in large groups• Attacking from the rear• Facing the buffeting winds of this world• Accomplishment• Use of voice as protection• Nomadic living• Fearlessness• Pushing against the tide

Grasshopper/Locust/Katydid's Wisdom Includes:

• Jumps across space and time• Leaps of faith• Jumping without knowing where you will land• Astral travel• Leaping over obstacles• New leaps forward• Ability to change careers quickly

Grouse's Wisdom Includes:

• Standing at the door of the Great Spiral• Understanding the circular nature of time• Dancing the sacred dance of life• How to travel through the Great Spiral• Understanding and working with cycles

Gryphon's Wisdom Includes:

• Deep connection to Red• Making daring leaps of faith• Ability to look deep into one's soul to find answers• Connection to Fire• Physical protection• Severe revenge tactics• Ability to feel with every bit of the soul• Protector of young children• Ability to soar above the fray


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• Knows of the balance within nature

Guinea Pig/Hampster's Wisdom Includes:

• Gentleness• Humane treatment of others• Love• Responsibility

Hawk's Wisdom Includes:

• Clear-sightedness• Being observant• Far-memory• Messages from spirit• Guardianship• Recalling past lives• Courage• Wisdom• Illumination• Seeing the larger picture• Creativity• Truth• Experience• Wise use of opportunities• Overcoming problems

Hedgehog's Wisdom Includes:

• Wisdom of the female elders• Fertility• Defense against negativity• Enjoyment of life• Understanding weather patterns

Heron's Wisdom Includes:

• All aspects of diversity• Self-reliance• Boundaries• Exploration• Self-esteem• Balancing multiple tasks• Dignity

Hippopotamus's Wisdom Includes:

• Proper use of aggression


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• Ability to move gracefully through emotions• Mother-fury when necessary• Birth of new ideas• Protection of family

Hoopoe's Wisdom Includes:

• Appropriate wearing of crowns/laurels/fame• Cleansing oneself• Connection to the Earth• Teaches how to use odor as defense• The value of tunneling as a means of escape

Hornbill's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to rear young alone• Protection of young• Pecking your way through obstacles• Breaking out of difficult situations

Horse/Pony/Mustang's Wisdom Includes:

• Power• Stamina• Endurance• Faithfulness• Freedom to run free• Control of the environment• Awareness of power achieved with true cooperation• Interspecies communication• Expanding one’s own potential abilities• Friendship and Cooperation• Travel• Astral travel• Guardian of travelers• Warns of possible danger• Guide to overcoming obstacles

Horseshoe Crab's Wisdom Includes:

• Living fossil - connection to early life on Earth• Ability to maintain balance• Camouflage• Proper use of armor

Hummingbird’s Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to heal by using light as a laser from mouth


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• Endurance over long journeys• Ability to fly into small places to heal• Joy• Happiness• Love

Hyena's Wisdom Includes:

• Knows the secrets of the wild• Understands how to control epidemics• Adaptability• Patience• Perseverance in hunting• Strength• Understanding the value of cooperation• Connection to the Vulture• Defense of boundaries• Communication in dark spaces• Singing ones soul song• Understanding the value of community

Ibis' Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses• Wisdom• Enlightenment• Ability to work with magick spells• Understanding ancient wisdom

Ibis was an important creature to the Egyptians. Ibis was sacred to the Goddess Isis. Thoth, god ofthe Moon and wisdom, has an ibis head. Thoth, guardian of the Moon Gates, was the deity ofrecord keeping and magick. Thoth, in the form of Ibis, hovered above the Egyptians and taughtthem the occult arts and sciences.

Jaguar's Wisdom Includes:

• Seeing the roads within chaos• Understanding the patterns of chaos• Moving without fear in the darkness• Facilitating soul work• Empowering oneself• Moving in unknown places• Shapeshifter• Psychic sight

Black Jaguar's Wisdom Includes :

• Keeper of the circular time continuum


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• Gatekeeper to the Unknowable• All wisdom listed above for Jaguar

According to Mayan beliefs, the journey of the sun across the sky and the darkness of night stoodfor the eternal journey of human consciousness and its transformations. The sun at midday wascompared to the Eagle, flying high in the sky. Then it plunges below the horizon, just as we plungeinto the dark where we face our spiritual challenges and are transformed. The hidden sun wassaid to be Jaguar, whose spotted skin symbolized the stars glittering in the night sky. Thus, it wascalled the "Jaguar Sun." Jaguar is the earth father. As earth father, he presides over the sacredpower in the earth and the animals who live upon it. The force that lives within the mountains,which gives them their volcanic and transformative power, is the same underworld source ofpower and energy as the Jaguar Sun. The Mayan word for Jaguar is IX (pronounced eesh).

Jackal's Wisdom Includes:

• Astral travel• Accessing past lives• Connection to the constellation Orion• Understanding the use of opportunity• Ability to see in the dark• Connection to the Pyramids of Egypt

Anubis, Egyptian god of the Dead, had the head of a jackal. Anubis guided the souls of the deadto the Judgement Hall of the Otherworld where the souls were weighed for truth on the scales ofMaat. He was considered essential in the rituals of Isis and Osiris.

Jay's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding how to use power wisely• Warning• Courage• Ability to check on future trouble spots

Jellyfish's Wisdom Includes:

• Sensitivity to water energy— emotions• Understanding of the value of floating, rather than swimming, through trying emotional

times• Proper use of softness (not being rigid)• Ability to become untangled from the webs of peril in life

Junco's Wisdom Includes:

• Interspecies communication• Diversity• Wanderer


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• Survival abilities

Kangaroo's Wisdom Includes:

• Leaping away from bad situations• Creating a safe home environment• Ability to adapt to new situations• Protection of the young

Kingbird's Wisdom Includes:

• Tenacity• Balanced vision• Love of open spaces• Aggressive defense of home environment• Fearless nature• Quick movement through issues relating to Air

Kingfisher/Kookaburra's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to peaceful seas• Happiness and love• Peace• Indifference to surroundings• Clear vision through emotional waters• Ability to dive (focus) into emotional waters and catch ones dreams

According to Greek legend, Ceyx and Halcyon were wed. Shortly thereafter Ceyx had to make along voyage and he drowned during a storm. Halcyon waited for his return for months. Then oneday his body washed ashore. In her grief she threw herself into the ocean. The gods were movedby her love and grief. She and her husband were turned into Kingfishers and were reunited in loveand peace. The Gods then declared that from one week before the winter solstice through oneweek after it, the seas would be calm and sun would shine. This time of peace is called the"Halycon Days".

Kinkajou's wisdom includes:

• Leaps of faith to unknown places• Ability to grasp thoughts and concepts out of reach of others• Gentleness• Ability to see in the dark• Connection to the plant kingdom• Fertility

Kiwi's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the ancient wisdom of the Maori• Ability to scratch out truth


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• Understanding earth changes

Koala's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to climb over obstacles• Recognizing the value of slow movement• Ability to remain above the fray• The power of yoga• Helpful advice giver

Komodo Dragon's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to enter long dream states• Warrior energy• Speed• Adept use of the Earth’s vibrations• Longevity

Leech's Wisdom Includes:

• Hermaphroditic (possesses both sexes)• Healer• Ability to alter the flow of life force energy• Simplicity• Movement connected to wave cycles

Lemur's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability is access the knowledge of the forests• Seeing the unseen• Ability to grasp concepts above the static of life• Understanding how to remain above the fray of life• Ability to navigate through the forest

Leopard's Wisdom Includes:

• Sensitivity to touch• Stalking• Approaching someone unseen• Movement in shadow worlds• Communication with plant kingdom

Leopard, Clouded’s Wisdom Includes:

• Elusiveness• Effective use of the power of seclusion• Ability to hide family secrets• Understands the perils of beauty


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• Expert climber• Good swimmer

Leopard, Snow's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding one’s shadow side• Trusting one’s inner self• Agility• Strength• Ability to stalk• Understanding the power of silence

Lion's Wisdom Includes:

• Brotherhood• Letting go of stress• Strong family ties• Strength• Courage• Energy• Self fullfillment

Lizard's Wisdom Includes:

• Detachment from ego• Power to regenerate that which is lost• Facing fear• Controlling dreams• Moving in the otherworld

Llama/Guanaco/Vicuna's Wisdom Includes:

• Overcoming materialism• Moving over hurdles• Comforting others• Withstanding cold

Lobster's Wisdom Includes:

• Concentration• Coordination• Understands when to follow not lead• Ability to transcend the mind/ego• The power of simplicity

Loon/Great Northern Diver's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to ancient bird energy


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• Use of voice as a signature• Connection to water energy• The value of being a strong swimmer• Understanding dreams and astral travel

Lorikeet's Wisdom Includes:

• Connect to the Rainbow• Communication skills• Recognition of one’s soul mate• Ability to see all viewpoints• Love of language

Lynx's Wisdom Includes:

• Keenness of sight• Divination• Developing psychic senses• Keeper of all secrets and mysteries• Movement through time and space

Lynx - Caracal/Desert Lynx/Red Lynx' Wisdom Includes:

• Speed• Agility• Shyness• Intelligence• Expert hunter of birds

Magpie's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding of the balance of light and• darkness• Seeing in darkness• Use of ritual in everyday life• Communication• Understanding messages from Spirit• Prophecy• Intelligence• Use of voice• Good luck

Manta Ray's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to swim slowly through emotional waters• Positive use of size in one’s life• Understanding differences


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Mayfly/Shadfly's Wisdom Includes:

• Intensity• Transformation while moving• Transparency• Emphasis on childhood issues• Living in the moment

Meadowlark's Wisdom Includes:

• The power of song• Understanding the use of voice• Clarity• Happiness• Meditating on oneself• Going inward to find answers

Meerkat/Suricate's Wisdom Includes:

• Maternal nurturing• Caretaking• Watchfulness• Ability to live communally• Sacrifice for the good of the group

Mockingbird's wisdom includes:

• Using knowledge gained on the outside to heal the inside• Learning through experience• Curiosity• Attitude• Territoriality• Overcoming fear• Intelligence

Mole's Wisdom Includes:

• Guardian of the lower regions• Connection with the energies of the Earth• Knowledge of herbs, roots, minerals, seeds, rivers, and other hidden bounties of the earth• Ability to turn inward• Introspection and blindness to all but light and dark in the material world• Love expressed in nature• Sensitivity to touch and vibration (the kinesthetic sense)• Understanding of energies and fluxes

Mongoose's Wisdom Includes:


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• Use of speed in defense• Lack of fear in attacking and defending oneself• Apprehension of wrongdoers• Protection of family

Monkey's Wisdom Includes:

• Movement through ego• Ability to change environment• Family protection• Understanding excesses• Good health• Understanding success

Moorhen/Gallinule/ 'Alae 'Ula's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to water vegetation• Ability to move above ones environment• Diversity of color/race• Use of voice

According to legend, the Gallinule is one of the great benefactors of the early Hawaiian people. Itwas in the days before fire was known to the people, and the Gallinule took pity on them. Flying tothe home of the gods (the volcanos), he stole a blazing brand and brought it back to earth. Duringhis flight the Gallinule's formerly white forehead was scorched by the volcano’s fires -- thus itsname "alae" signifying a burnt forehead. Today all gallinules bear a red frontal shield on theirheads

Moose's Wisdom Includes:

• Acknowledges the truths that have been denied by the soul• Movement to and from the soul world• Movement in the void• Finds the parts of the soul that have been hidden• Building self- respect• Strength• Wisdom• Bridge to the elders• Unseen speed

Mosquito's Wisdom Includes:

• Using water to transform• Drawing energy inside one self• Controlling energy flow in one direction

Moth's Wisdom Includes:


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• The power of the whirlwind• Ease of movement in darkness/shadow• Transformation• Ability to confuse enemies• Ability to find light in darkness

Mouse/Lemming/Vole's Wisdom Includes:

• Examines life's lessons• Shyness• Quietness• Understanding details• Seeing double meanings in things• Invisibility• Stealth• Guidance in signing contracts• Discovery• Ability to be unseen

Muskox's Wisdom Includes:

• Defense of the vulnerable by the community• Ability to withstand coldness in others• Understanding of how to survive in harsh climates• Provides physical warmth in harsh times

Muskrat's Wisdom Includes:

• Adaptability• Ability to swim through emotional waters to return home• Understands value to survival of interspecies cooperation• Ability to reuse what others discard

Nighthawk's Wisdom Includes:

• Patience• Use of body movement• Camouflage• Ability to rest when others cannot• Nocturnal vision

Nightingale's Wisdom Includes:

• Proper use of song in healing• Using vibrational energy to see in shadow• Use of song in moving through fear• Connection with the Moon


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Nuthatch's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to view things reversed• Courage of the one in the face of the masses• Ability to move ideas from thought to practice• Connection to Woodpecker

Ocelot's Wisdom Includes:

• Regeneration through solitude• Connection with physical and spiritual worlds• Ability to be in two places at once• Clear vision• Connection to the unseen

Octopus/Squid's Wisdom Includes:

• Intelligence• Moving rapidly away from danger when needed• Proper use of smoke screens (ink) in evading enemies• Destroying negative barriers

To the Greeks and Minoans, Octopus symbolized the sacred spiral of the Goddess and wasrelated to the Spider web. It represented Moon phases, feminine powers, and the cycle of life anddeath.

Octopus - Cuttlefish's Wisdom Includes:

• Use of color as communication• Changing colors regularly and often• Ability to transmute ones outer layer• Territoriality

Opossum's Wisdom Includes:

• Proper use of deception• Use of appearances• Sensibility• Guidance to uncovering talent, psychic or physical• Gaining wisdom• Recovery

Orangutan's Wisdom Includes:

• Gentleness• Connection to the forest spirits• Ingenuity in dealing with problems• Movement above the fray


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Orca/Killer Whale’s Wisdom Includes:

• Creator of the Cosmos• Having the ability to convert raw matter into stars, planets, etc.• Breaking down the barriers of the human mind• Obliterating the concept of good or evil• Controlling rainfall on Earth• Using the vibrational energy of song to heal• Assisting humans in finding their soul's song• Soul memory• Seeing the unseen• Teaching the ability to seal soul fissures and energy leaks

According to coastal Indians, Orca was created by the hunter who carved a "blackfish" out ofyellow cedar and commanded it to kill his wicked in-laws. Orca tore the men to bits and returned tothe Tlingit man, Natsalane, who then ordered the sleek animals never again to prey on humans.And, to this day, Orca, the top predator of the sea, doesn’t eat people. Indeed, the Tlingit people ofsoutheast Alaska consider Orca a custodian of the sea.

Oriole's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to tree spirits• Ability to see how all life is woven together• Facilitates connection to the Little People• Joy

Ostrich's Wisdom Includes:

• Assists in exorcisms• Spiritual truth• Avoidance behavior• Outrunning adversaries• Communal living• Understands all aspects of denial

In ancient Egypt an Ostrich feather symbolized Maat, goddess of truth and justice.

Otter's Wisdom Includes:

• Woman’s healing wisdom• Sensibility without suspicion• Guidance in unmasking talents• Psychic awareness• Faithfulness• Recovery issues• Understanding the value of playtime

Owl's Wisdom Includes:


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• Stealth• Secrecy• Silent and swift movement• Seeing behind masks• Keen sight• Messenger of secrets and omens• Shape-shifting• Link between the dark, unseen world and the world of light• Comfort with shadow self• Moon magick• Freedom

Oyster's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to filter out life’s static• Understands when to close doors to prevent energy loss• Sensitivity to environmental changes• Maintenance of outer wall of protection

Panda's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding the value of slowness• Connection to Eastern beliefs• Balance• Adaptability• Connection to the Plant Kingdom

Panda, Red's Wisdom Includes:

• Proper use of masks• Ability to see through masks• Using dexterity to escape

Panther, Black's Wisdom Includes:

• Astral travel• Guardian energy• Symbol of the feminine• Understanding of death• Reclaiming ones power• Ability to know the dark• Death and rebirth

Parakeet's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to change direction suddenly• Imitation• Love


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• Trust• Assists with goals within the community

Parrot/Macaw's Wisdom Includes:

• Use of language• Mockery• Pair bonding• Brings rain• Guidance and wisdom to think before speaking

Partridge's Wisdom Includes:

• Fertility• Solitary work• Mobility• Connection to female energies

Peacock's Wisdom Includes:

• All aspects of beauty• Immortality• Ability to see into the past, present, and future• Dignity• Self-confidence• Rising out of ashes

Peccary/Javalina's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the large cats• Understands the conversation of death between predator and prey• Ability to warn others of danger• Quick movement to avoid harm• Self-sacrifice

Pegasus' Wisdom Includes:

• Protector• Gives inspiration• Connected to astral travel• Boundaries• Humility• Emotion• Connected to lightning wisdom• Ability to fly over any situation

Pelican's Wisdom Includes:


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• Proper use of abundance• Control of ego• Recovery from loss• Ability to float through emotions• Ability to return from the edge of extinction

Penguin's Wisdom Includes:

• Fatherhood• Understanding female energy within the male• Waking dreams• Astral Projection• Patience• Endurance

Pheasants's Wisdom Includes:

• Movement through ego• Using color to heal• Expansion of self awareness• Understanding the use of ritual

Pig/Sow/Boar's Wisdom Includes:

• Crone Goddess• Rooting out the truth• Deep Earth magick• Past life knowledge• Intelligence• Cunning• Becoming invisible during times of danger

Pine Sisken's Wisdom Includes:

• Removal of negative but deeply held issues• Manifesting new opportunities• Understanding what a seed contains before planting it• Maintaining social connections

Platypus' Wisdom Includes:

• Connection the ancient animals• Ability to remain unique• Value of remaining as you are• Ability to rear young differently

Polar Bear's Wisdom Includes:


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• Ability to navigate along the Earth’s magnetic lines• Introspection• Solitude• Expert swimmer through emotional waters• Finding one way back from the brink• Ability to find sustenance in barren landscapes• Strength in the face of adversity• Communication with Spirit• Dreams• Death and rebirth• Transformation• Creature of dreams, shamans, mystics and visionaries• Defense and revenge

Porcupine's Wisdom Includes:

• Innocence• Trust in Spirit• Renewed sense of wonder• Creating your own path• Protection of boundaries• Defense when threatened• Allowing others their path• Non-interference

Prairie Dog's Wisdom Includes:

• Communal living• Value of touch• Proper use of affection• Connection to all things found below the surface

Prawn/Shrimp/Krill's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts• Sustenance• Ability withstand cold temperatures• Group living• Adaptability

Praying Mantis/Walking Stick's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to manipulate time• Power to move between moments• Understanding of the circular nature of time• Power of stillness• Female warrior energy• Attack strategy


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Puffin's Wisdom Includes:

• The Penguin of the North• Understanding parental abandonment• Longevity• Lifetime mating• Childhood ability to thrive in darkness

Quail's Wisdom Includes:

• Living close to the Earth• Ability to blend into the background• Finding peaceful solutions to peril• Courage to face hardships

Rabbit/Hare's Wisdom Includes:

• Guile• Paradox and contradiction• Living by one’s own wits• Receiving hidden teachings and intuitive messages• Quick-thinking• Humility• Moving through fear• Strengthening intuition

Raccoon's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding the nature of masks• Disguise• Dexterity• Seeking guidance and confidence• Questioning without fear• Balancing curiosity

Rat'sWisdom Includes:

• Abundant reproduction• Ability to live unseen• Stealth• Defense• Intelligence• Symbol of fertility and wealth

Raven's Wisdom Includes:

• Rebirth• Recovery


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• Renewal• Recreation• Recycling• Healing (recovering lost pieces of the soul)• Casting light on Shadow• Connection to the source• Reflections / Mirrors• Self Acceptance• Introspection• Comfort in Solitude• Evolutionized form of Velociraptor• Honoring ancestors• Magick of the Crone• Divination• Change in consciousness• New occurrences• Eloquence

Resplendent Quetzal's Wisdom Includes:

• Sacred bird of the ancient Mayas and Aztecs• Sacred bird of the Cloud forest• Freedom• Symbol of wealth• Invisibility• Stillness• Diversity

Rhinocero's Wisdom Includes:

• Learning comfort in solitude• Connection to ancient wisdom• Knowledge of self• Proper use of ancient wisdom• Trust of instincts

Roadrunner's Wisdom Includes:

• Proper use of speed• Understanding rapid change• Agility• Evading capture through quickness

Robin's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding the power of song• Happiness• Guide in the wisdom of change


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Sand Dollar's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the Stars• Recognition of cycles• Return to the beginning• Honoring ones life cycle• Ability to survive storms• Fragility

Scorpion's Wisdom Includes:

• Attacking from the rear• Death and rebirth• Transmutation of poison• Reflecting dark and negative energy back to its sender

Sea Gull's Wisdom Includes:

• Spiritual messengers• Communication with deities• Behaving responsibly• Ability to see from above situations• Friendship

Sea Slug's Wisdom Includes:

• Renewal through shedding ones outer skin• Transmutation• Protection through reputation• Use of color to warn

Seahorse's Wisdom Includes:

• The Hummingbird of the sea• Joy• Understanding of the importance of the courtship dance• Ability to hold on while in emotional waters• Paternal rearing of offspring

Seal's Wisdom Includes:

• Protection during change• Lucid dreaming• Protection from danger• Movement through emotions• Creativity

Secretary Bird's Wisdom Includes:


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• The long-legged marching eagle• Clear vision• Ability to stall tall• Love of home• Pride• Speed

Serval's Wisdom Includes:

• Stealth• Invisibility• Use of facial features as communication• Ability to see over one’s environment• Associated with water• Inter-species communication• Listens to what is hidden

Shark's Wisdom Includes:

• Comfort with self (physical and spritual) as it has been over the millennia• Ability to move constantly• Working/moving in silence• Devours negative energy• Connection to the past• Living fossil• Ability to be in the mMoment• Recycling energy• Remorselessness• Never being caught off guard• Ability to defend oneself

Sheep/Ram/Ewe's Wisdom Includes:

• Maintaining balance in dangerous situations• Confidence in ones abilities• Fertility• Courage needed to maintain balance• New beginnings• Abundance• Assurance in new areas

Shrike/Butcher Bird's Wisdom Includes:

• The only truly predatory songbird• Ferocity• Value of surplus• Surveyor of one’s surroundings• Understanding of the nature of masks


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• Boldness• Fearlessness

Skunk's Wisdom Includes:

• Understanding how to "walk your talk"• Reputation• Sensuality• Understanding energy flows• Self-respect• Courage• Will-power• Self-confidence

Sloth's Wisdom Includes:

• Wisdom associated with moving slowly• The value of laziness• Understanding the tree spirits• Ability to access the libraries within the trees where all Earth knowledge is held• Seeing the world upside down• understanding when to use tenacious behavior

Snail/Slug's Wisdom Includes:

• Importance of keeping yourself mobile• Understands the value of leaving a trail• Ability to use slow movement to ones advantage• Defense through retreat• Understands the value of humor

Snake/Serpent's Wisdom Includes:

• Messanger of the Rainbow Serpent• Elusiveness• Manipulates lightning• Transmutation• Exploration of the mysteries of life• Primitive or elemental energy• Protection from religious persecution• Goddess energy• Psychic energy• Creative power• Immortality• Connection to or forms the magic cord by which the shaman travels to the soul world

Snipe's Wisdom Includes:


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• Connection to the wetlands• Reclusive behavior• Ability to use temperature to ones advantage• Family secrets

Sparrow's Wisdom Includes:

• Desire• Fertility• Manifesting new love in ones life• Understanding the aspects of race• Ability to use the power of song• All aspects of color

Spider's Wisdom Includes:

• Master weaver• Weaver of the web of fate• Wisdom• Creativity• Divine inspiration• Shapeshifting• Understanding the patterns of illusion• Female energy for the creative force of life

Spider, Tarantula's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to shed the outer skin (masks) and transform• Creativity• Spinning a web to entrap enemies• Defense of territory• Intimidation by size• Use of environment to conceal oneself

Spoonbill's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to sweep obstacles out of ones way• Connection to marshes and estuaries• Protects young through communal living• Understands shyness• Use of wariness in defense• Silence

Squirrel's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to solve puzzles• Resourcefulness• Quick change of direction


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• Storing for the future• Balance in giving and receiving• Power of rest during times of non-movement• Warning• Discovery• Change• Avoiding danger by climbing to a higher place

Starling's wisdom includes:

• Ability to control mobs• Imitation• Adaptability• Intelligence• Mental receptivity

Stink Bug's Wisdom Includes:

• Use of odor as protection• Exchange of life energy• Camouflage• Use of exterior shell as protection

Stork's Wisdom Includes:

• Creation• New beginnings• Faithfulness• Protection of the young

Swallow's Wisdom Includes:

• Closing related to the Thunderbird• Power of communal living• Understands the value to family and home• Protection• Agility• Ability to maneuver• Connection to the arrival of thunderstorms

Swan's Wisdom Includes:

• Awakening the power of self• Understanding dream symbols• Seeing into the future• Understanding spiritual evolution• Developing intuitive abilities• Divination


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• Grace in dealing with others

Tapir's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the Horse and Rhinoceros• Toughness• Longevity• Understanding shyness• Ability to remain unchanged by time• Gentleness

Tasmanian Devil's Wisdom Includes:

• Self-defense• Protection of territory• Ability to use perseverance when necessary• Understanding of how and when to fight

Termite's Wisdom Includes:

• Defense of personal space• Single-mindedness• Connection to tropical forests• Co-operative living

Thrush's Wisdom Includes:

• Communication• Languages• Working with the Little People

Tick's Wisdom Includes:

• Transmission of ideas• Patience• Ability to use heat and movement to see• Ingenuity

Tiger's Wisdom Includes:

• Power• Energy• Strength and will-power in the face of adversity• Acting in a timely manner• Action without analysis

Titmouse's Wisdom Includes:


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• Attitude• Fearlessness• Ability to wear crowns without ego• Power of voice

Toad's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to altered states of consciousness• Symbol of the Earth• Camouflaging poison• Changing luck• Long life

Toucan's Wisdom Includes:

• Dexterity• Agility• Ability to move to and from the soul world• Proper use of color in healing• Ability find peace in small places

Turkey's Wisdom Includes:

• Sacrifice of self for a higher purpose• Understanding the gift of giveaway• Honoring the Earth Mother• Harvest bounties

Turtle/Tortoise's Wisdom Includes:

• Symbol of the earth• Connection with the center• Navigation skills• Patience• Self-boundaries• Associated with the feminine• Power to heal female diseases• Respecting the boundaries of others• Developing new ideas• Psychically protecting oneself• Self-reliance• Tenacity• Nonviolent defense

Turtle, Sea's Wisdom Includes:

• Bravery of the young• Connection to the Moon


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• Navigation skills• Understands the nuances of long cycles• Duty to completion of ones life path• Ability to travel long distances to reach home• Longevity• Wisdom• Connection to the Earth’s water energies

Unicorn's Wisdom Includes:

• Purity• Innocence• Virginity• Connection to weather patterns• Connection to the forest spirits• Relative of Pegasus• Connection to the Faeries• Often makes contact under blooming fruit trees

Vulture/Buzzard/Condor's Wisdom Includes:

• Death and rebirth• Prophecy• Love of the Mother goddess• Knowledge concerning the death of a loved one• New vision• Purification

Walrus' Wisdom Includes:

• Using of a fierce masks wisely• Movement in emotional waters• Group living• Defense of territory• Storing for the future

Warbler's Wisdom Includes:

• Diversity• Beauty of all soul songs• Invisibility• Frail endurance• Survival

Warthog's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to sense danger• Courage


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• Protection• Ability to find the truth• Use of a fierce mask

Wasp/Hornet/Yellowjacket's Wisdom Includes:

• Use of female warrior energy• Sisterhood• Understanding female societies• Communal living

Waxbill's Wisdom Includes:

• Foster parenting• Ability to see from all perspectives• Surefooted• Ability to change

Waxwing's Wisdom Includes:

• Communal living• Connected to healing• Self-respect• Control of ego• Connection to Red Cedar• Facilitates reproduction

Waydah/Widow Bird's Wisdom Includes:

• Spousal protection• Giving up young for adoption• Use of beauty in courtship• Aggression• Need for open spaces

Weasel's Wisdom Includes:

• Stealth• Cunning• Ingenuity• Revenge• Keen observation• Ability to see hidden reasons behind things• Power of observation

Whale's Wisdom Includes:

• Record keeper for all eternity


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• All knowledge associated with voice• Psychic and telepathic abilities• All aspects of the sea• Beauty of movement

Wild Dog's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the full moon• Versatility of habitat• Ability to see in low light• Fertility

Wildebeest's Wisdom Includes:

• Movement toward new opportunities• Ability to live with the masses• Understanding of the value of travel• The ability to move with the seasons• Understanding of the power of the group in defense

Willie Wagtail's Wisdom Includes:

• Camp protector• Brings messages about relatives• Protector of lost children• Patron of child care providers• Teaches the proper use of gossip

Woodpecker's Wisdom Includes:

• Connection to the earth• Ability to find hidden layers• Understands rhythms, cycles and patterns• Warnings• Prophecy• Associated with thunder• The Earth's drummer• Pecks away at deception until the truth is revealed

Wolf's Wisdom Includes:

• Facing the end of one's cycle with dignity and courage• Death and rebirth• Spirit teaching• Guidance in dreams and meditations• Instinct linked with intelligence• Social and familial values• Outwitting enemies


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• Ability to pass unseen• Steadfastness• Skill in protection of self and family• Taking advantage of change

Wolverine's Wisdom Includes:

• Last phantom of the wilderness• Hyena of the North• Master of the Forest• Trickster hero• Magical link between the material and the spirit worlds• Revenge• Craftiness• Understands how to satisfy appetites• Ability to travel in very cold places• Understanding aggression• Protection against attackers• Multilevel protection• Standing your ground• Fierceness• Elusiveness• Gluttonry• Cleverness• Strength• Non-retreat• Effective attack• Endurance• Courage

Wombat's Wisdom Includes:

• Ability to change within• Strength• Determination• Intelligence• Speed• Resourcefulness• Ability to dig up needed information

Woodchuck/Marmot/Ground Hog's Wisdom Includes:

• Sense of family and community• Connection to seasonal changes• Understands the power of cycles• Ability to hibernate (sleep) during hard times• Protection from floods• Ability to go underground when trouble arises


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Worm's Wisdom Includes:

• Regeneration• Purifies the Earth• Ability to find nurturing within the Earth• Camouflage• Ability to wiggle out of difficult situations

Wren's Wisdom Includes:

• Messenger from the gods• Sibling (brother/sister) relationships• Power of voice• Fearlessness• Seeing future events

Zebra's Wisdom Includes:

• Balance• Seeing in black and white• Clarity without filters• Power• Sureness of path• Maintaining the individual within the herd

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