How do you find out what your animal totem is?

Question

ok i know i've asked this question before but i've been in some situations where my animal totem could have shown itself but it didn't and i really want to know what it is and why it didn't show itself when i could have really used it!?!?

Answer 1

HelIo

In our forum we have a topic on this, which includes a method.

See link for forum address.

Sadhara

Answer 2

it comes with time. try medidtation. when we are born we are born with more than one spirit guide, and we also choose our spirit animal to watch over us. sometimes in dreams we see them.  have you ever had a dream and in it there is an animal? one you feel safe with or one that gives you some sort of peace? that is your totem they are watching over you they are your protector. think of it this way if you have any interest in a certain type of animal and you dont even know why? it could be somthing totally off the wall like an elaphant or a whale or even a donkey!! dont try to think of an animal that would be suitable to you as a pet such as a dog or cat, although most people do like dogs and cats and it could very well be any ones totem, but my grandmothers totem is without a doubt a horse. i call her the horse whisperer. she could stand in a feild of wild horses and i beleive that they would come to her if she called them. like mine is a cat, i always have dreams that there is a cat sleeping in my bed at night , which alot of people do if there cat is there totem, but i take a certain interest in cats and there history. just think about it and what animal do you have a connection with?

but not everyone can do that and find out what it is either it just depends on you and how spiritually connected you are or how connected you are willing to become. like i said try meditating, sometimes it helps not just with your totem but with your spirit guides as well

Answer 3

l may not have a totem guide but l will tell you this, don't think that an animal is your guide just because you picked it and have related yourself to it on purpose.

For example, the first replier. lt seems wherever we go we are never short supply of people who associate themselves with that, even if there are a million other species of fauna far more common than that. The reason is simple, some choose to link themselves to a totem for a 'cool' factor. Purely aesthetic, shallow and ficial. How is it that the everyday frog, kitten or sparrow isn't a totem for them?

lf you truly put your faith in finding your real totem, then you first have to disregard what you think you are like. A sense of stealth may not have to be a prowler but the humble snake can stalk just as well, an affinity for water could be a tilapia's gift in place of a dolpihn.

lt could be the reason you think it didn't show itself so far, being focused on finding the totem you want to associate yourself with rather than the one already granted to you.

Answer 4

Sometimes totems or spirit guides don't just show up. You need to seek it out, introduce yourself, and treat it with respect.  The totem will then make the next move. It's a mutual relationship, not "Come here now. I need you". I'll suggest the book Animal Speak by Ted Andrews as an intro.

Answer 5

http://www.animaltotem.com/find-your-tot...

This site is very helpful when trying to figure out your spirit animal. For me I found myself very drawn to once creature, I would obsess about it for days, then months and then years. I reasearched them until I could know no more, and then one day I had a dream. I had to be about 12 years old, I dreamt of myself and a wolf. The wolf was black in color and carried many acestrial crimson markings on her face. She intruiged me and I began to draw and paint her. I beagn meditating and she would 'haunt' my meditations, she would stare at me and come close to me in my meditations and then I embraced her. I saw her as my spirit guide sort of, she was my other side, my best side so to say.

It comes with time in other words, you may want your guide to be this or that, you may want to find your totem spirit right now, however it will come to you when you are ready to embrace such a gift. At least that is what happens with me. I think if you wait long enough though, it will come to you and you will just know.