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Animal Symbolism
ADDER - healing, life energy/breath, transformation (see also SNAKE)
AIR DRAGON - insight, inspiration, vitality
ALLIGATOR - the Goddess
ANT - discipline, order, patience
ANTELOPE - action
ARMADILLO - discriminating, empathy, personal protection, boundaries
BADGER - aggressiveness
BAT - rebirth
BEAR - intuition with instinct, primal power, sovereignty, introspection
BEAVER - builder
BEE - celebration, community, organization
BEETLE - resurrection, metamorphosis
BLACKBIRD - mystic, understanding the energies of Mother Nature, enchantment, the Gateway, self-awareness
BLUE JAY - proper use of power
BLUEBIRD - confidence, happiness, modesty
BOAR - direction, leadership, warrior spirit
BUFFALO - abundance, prayer
BULL - beneficence, wealth, financial wealth, potency
BUTTERFLY - metamorphosis
CANARY - healing power of song, power of song and voice, musical
CARDINAL - renewed vitality
CAT - detachment, guardianship, sensuality, mystery, magic, independence
CATBIRD - language, communication, opportunities
CHICKADEE - cheerful, seeker of truth
CHICKEN - fertility, sacrifice
COCK - sexuality, watchfulness, resurrection
COW - the Goddess, motherhood, nourishment
COYOTE - fool, jokester, trickster
CRANE - creation through focus, longevity, patience, secret knowledge
CROW - magical, shape shifter, watchfulness, sacred law
CUCKOO - new fate
DEER - gentleness (see also HIND and STAG)
DOG - guidance, protection, loyalty, servant, service
DOLPHIN - Manna, the breath of life, life force
DOVE - peace, maternity, prophecy
DRAGONFLY - illusion, dreamtime
DUCK - comforting, maternal, protective
EAGLE - Spirit, spirituality, renewal, intelligence, courage, illumination of Spirit, healing, creation
EARTH DRAGON - personal power, potential, riches
ELK - stamina, strength, nobility, warrior spirit FINCH - multiplicity, new experiences and encounters
FIRE DRAGON - energy, mastery, transmutation
FLICKER - healing love, new growth
FOX - cunning, diplomacy, wildness, camouflage, shape shifting , invisibilility
FROG - sensitivity, hidden beauty and power, medicine, cleansing
GIRAFFE - farseeing, farsightedness
GOLDFINCH - connection with nature
GOOSE - parenthood, productive power, vigilance, call to travel, fidelity, infinity, call to quest, story telling
GROSBEAK - family relationships, heals old wounds
GROUSE - sacred spiral, enlightenment, personal vision, personal vision
HARE - balance, intuition, rebirth (see also RABBIT)
HAWK - big picture, broad vision, recollection, nobility, cleansing, observant, messenger, guardianship
HERON - self-determination, self-reliance
HIND - femininity, gracefulness, subtlety
HORSE - the Land, travel, unearthly power, personal power, the Goddess
HUMMINGBIRD - joy
INCHWORM - quantitative
KESTREL - mental agility
KINGFISHER - calm, peace, prosperity
LIZARD - dreaming, subtlety of perception, the Shadow
LOON - realizing dreams, imagination
LYNX - secret knowledge
MAGPIE - collector, occult knowledge, willful, wily
MARTIN - community peace, good luck
MEADOWLARK - cheerfulness, inner journey, sublimation
MOOSE - self-esteem, wisdom
MOUNTAIN GOAT - surefooted
MOUNTAIN LION - leadership, surefooted
MOUSE - attention to detail, scrutiny, organization
NUTHATCH - ethereal, grounded faith
OPOSSUM - diversion
ORIOLE - positive energy
OTTER - helpfulness, interpersonal, joy, play, female energy
OWL - critical (discerning), change, detachment, wisdom, clairvoyance, deception
PELICAN - non-competitive, self-sacrificing, unselfish
PIG - (see BOAR and SOW)
PORCUPINE - faith, innocence, trusting
PRAIRIE DOG - community
PRAYING MANTIS - stillness
PRONGHORN - adaptability
RABBIT - fear, fertility
RACCOON - disguise, masks, dexterity
RAM - achievement, breakthrough
RAVEN - initiation, magic, protection
ROAD RUNNER - technical
ROBIN - new growth
ROOSTER - (see COCK)
SALMON - rejuvenation, wisdom, inspiration
SEAGULL - communication, responsible behavior
SEAL - longing, loove, dilemma
SKUNK - reputation, respected, self-respect
SNAKE - transmutation (see also ADDER)
SOW - generosity, nourishment, discovery
SPARROW - nobility
SPIDER - weaver, creative, creativity
SQUIRREL - gathering, plans ahead, prepared
STAG - independence, pride, purification
STARLING - sociable
STORK - birth, unspoken communication
SWALLOW - chatter, verbal
SWAN - grace, beauty, emotional, soul, love, mystic
SWISHER - accomplishment
TURTLE - grounded, the Goddess, Mother Earth
WATER DRAGON - connection, depth, passion
WAXWING - gentleness
WEASEL - stealth
WHALE - record keeper
WOLF - teacher, intuition, learning, the Shadow self, pathfinder
WREN - cunning, humility, the God
VULTURE - purification
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No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
~Murray Banks
The more that is learned about the ecological benefits of bats, the more home gardeners are going out of their way to entice these amazing winged mammals into their neighborhoods. Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as 600 bugs per hour for 4 to 6 hours a night. They can eat from one-half to three-quarters their weight per evening. Bats are also important plant pollinators, particularly in the southwestern U.S.
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