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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