The Beginner's Guide to Spirit Animals: How to Identify, Understand, and Connect with Your Animal Spirit Guide

by Dawn Baumann Brunke

Overview

Discover your spirit animals and embrace the wisdom all around you

Spirit animals provide guidance and wisdom, and can help you to lead a happier and more fulfilling life. We all have one or more spirit guides—the key is to learn how to communicate with them. Adapted from Key to Spirit Animals by Dawn Braumann Brunke, Beginner’s Guide to Spirit Animals provides an overview of animal guides and includes interactive exercises that allow you to attune to animal wisdom and form a meaningful relationship with your spirit animals.

Perfect for beginners, this book assumes no prior experience with shamanistic communication and provides a basic but detailed overview of all the common spirit animals, what they symbolize, and what a particular spirit animal tells you about yourself. Activity-based lessons and exercises help you discover and understand how to approach and communicate with your personal animal spirit guides.

Beginner’s Guide to Spirit Animals features:
 

• Exercises for discovering and attuning to your spirit animals—Learn to engage your spirit animals consciously through meditations and dreams, and fine-tune your observational skills to learn to interpret the subtleties of what animal encounters mean.
• Reference entries for over 100 different spirit animals—Discover the power and spiritual significance of a multitude of individual animals, birds, insects, and reptiles through concise descriptions of each animal’s expertise along with questions, suggestions, and recommendations to benefit their teachings.
• Practical ways to deepen your spirit animal relationships—Explore how to share consciousness to experience reality from an animal’s perspective, integrate animal teachings into everyday life, share your experiences, and give back to life in heartfelt ways.

Beginner’s Guide to Spirit Animals also provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting an abundance of signs and omens from nature that you might not otherwise take notice of.

Open your mind to the inherent wisdom of the animal world by following the guidance in this truly simple guide for beginners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760379943
Publisher:	New Shoe Press
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Series:	New Shoe Press Series
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,105,900
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Dawn Baumann Brunke is an author, animal communicator, and dream enthusiast. She has designed a tarot deck and written six books about connecting at deeper levels with nature, animals, self, and spirit. Her works include Animal Voices; Animal Voices, Animal Guides; Shapeshifting with Our Animal Companions; Animal Teachings; The Animal Wisdom Tarot; and Dreaming with Polar Bears. Dawn offers private consultations and group classes in animal communication. She lives with her husband, daughter, and animal friends in Alaska. For more, please visit her site at animalvoices.net.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Chapter 1 The Key to Inner-World Exploration 10

The Journey 11

Meditation: One Means to Travel Deep 13

The Importance of Journaling 15

Meet Your Lifelong Animal Guide 17

Dreaming 20

Meeting Spirit Animals in the Dream World 22

Waking in Your Dream, Dreaming While Awake 24

Chapter 2 The Key to Relationships and Communication 26

Establish a Connection with the Natural World 27

Communicate with Animals 31

Build Bridges 34

Notice Everything 39

Chapter 3 The Key to Clear Interpretation 43

Is it Real? 44

Shadow Animals 46

Consider Everything 49

Sample Interpretation: Hello Bear! 55

Your Dog is Not My Dog 57

Chapter 4 The Key to Spirit Animals and their Teachings 59

Large Mammals 60

Bear: Black and Brown 60

Bear: Panda 60

Bison/Buffalo 61

Camel 62

Cow 62

Deer 63

Elephant 64

Giraffe 64

Gorilla 65

Horse 66

Kangaroo 66

Llama 67

Lion 68

Moose 68

Puma (Cougar, Panther, and Mountain Lion) 69

Reindeer/Caribou 70

Tiger 70

Wolf 71

Zebra 72

Small Mammals 73

Badger 73

Bat 74

Beaver 74

Cat 75

Coyote 76

Dog 76

Fox 77

Goat 78

Monkey 78

Mouse 79

Pig 80

Porcupine 80

Prairie Dog 81

Ram 82

Rabbit 82

Raccoon 83

Skunk 84

Squirrel 84

Wolverine 85

Birds 86

Blue Jay 86

Chicken 86

Dove/Pigeon 87

Eagle 88

Flamingo 88

Goose 89

Gull 90

Hawk 90

Hummingbird 91

Ostrich 92

Owl 92

Parrot 93

Peacock 94

Pelican 94

Penguin 95

Raven 96

Robin 96

Stork 97

Swan 98

Vulture 98

Woodpecker 99

Insects & Arachnids 100

Ant 100

Bee 100

Beetle 101

Butterfly 102

Dragonfly 102

Firefly 103

Grasshopper 104

Ladybug 104

Mantis 105

Mosquito 106

Moth 106

Scorpion 107

Spider 108

Reptiles & Water Animals 109

Alligator 109

Crab 110

Dolphin 110

Frog 111

Goldfish 112

Hippopotamus 112

Jellyfish 113

Lizard 114

Manatee 114

Octopus 115

Otter 116

Salmon 116

Seahorse 117

Seal 118

Shark 118

Snail 119

Snake 120

Turtle 120

Whale 121

Chapter 5 The Key to Integration 122

Deepening Relationship 123

Integrating Animal Guidance in Everyday Life 126

The Teachings of Turtle and Tiger: A Sample Guide to Integration 128

Conclusion 134

Glossary 136

Index 140

Credits 144