Our spirit animals are powerful teachers on our inner work journeys. They help to guide, inspire, and lead us toward our true purpose while helping us to reconnect with our Souls.
When we come in contact with our spirit animal, we often immediately feel a sense of resonance, reverence, awe, and sometimes fear.
On a deep level, we know that this aspect of Nature is here to reveal lessons and truths that we haven’t yet had the stomach to digest.
Often, the presence of our spirit animal can give us the strength to enact changes, make brave decisions, and live our truth.
Free Spirit Animal Quiz
Take this free spirit animal quiz with a light and receptive heart. The answer you receive will either pick up on your short-term spirit animal or long-term spirit animal. (However, if you want a more ‘accurate’ answer, see my Spirit Animal Reading for more guidance!)
Whatever the case, pay close attention to the teachings and lessons available to you. There’s a reason why you were led to take this test. Enjoy!
3 Different Types of Animal Allies
As I elaborate in my spirit animal article, there are three types of animal allies:
- Spirit Animals (guides that call on you)
- Power Animals (guides you call on)
- Totem Animals (guides you inherit)
This test determines your potential spirit animal.
Spirit animals are the guides that appear in your life because you need to learn something from them – rather than actively calling on them or inheriting them from a lineage/clan. These are usually the easiest animal allies to connect with.
You can learn more about the other two types by reading the spirit animal article.
Can Our Spirit Animals Change?
Yes, our spirit animals often change throughout the span of a lifetime. We can also have multiple spirit animals.
However, most of us tend to carry one central spirit animal with us throughout our lives that doesn’t change.
In other words, there are both short-term and long-term spirit animals.
While short-term spirit animals help to temporarily guide us through tricky periods of growth, change, and rebirth, long-term spirit animals are there with us through thick and thin.
Many believe that our long-term spirit animals are an aspect of our Soul manifested in animal form.
I believe Wolf, for example, has been by my side since birth, as I have always carried a deep resonance with her. As my own essence is very similar to that of a Wolf – and the lessons I’ve learned in this life closely match what Wolf teaches – I consider Wolf to be my long-term spirit animal.
Many other short-term/transitional spirit animal guides have popped up on my path through the years, some including Dove, Spider, Cricket, Moth, Panther, Deer, Raven (and the list goes on).
What spirit animal did you get?
Share your results below!
Thank you for the quiz!
I have got Wolf as my spiritual animal. I like wolves, I find them very beautiful and intelligent.
what’s interesting is that the quiz results said ‘Wolf reveals that you are a person who has strong instincts’, I don’t think I have but that might be Wolf’s lesson for me, to either develop it or trust I do have it :)
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing this, Lynn 🐺
i have wolf. first time he showed up.
So I took the test and it turns out Horse. which is strange because a real legitimate shaman had figured out years ago that my spirit animal is the Owl. A far cry from horse!
We have different types of spirit animals, Xen. Some are with us for a season, others are with us for a lifetime.
I got “Horse”. Interesting, since I don’t have a particular “click” with horses. Yes, they are strong, beautiful and gracious creatures, but also subservient labourers that graze in confined meadowspaces. Interesting…..
Sometimes the animals we don’t click with are the ones that have the strongest lessons to teach us (you can think of them as “shadow” spirit animals). ;)
My spirit animal is the dolphin. Lovely as it almost gives me permission to tap into my inner joy, sonmewhat submerged these days, and playfulness. Yes!
Yay! That’s wonderful to hear Margaret. :)
I got the owl which is intriguing to me. I suppose I am more mystical than I give myself credit for. I haven’t heard or seen the owls in nature for awhile but I do have a picture of a pair of Snowy Owls in my tack room which I see quite often. Thank you for providing such a lovely tool.
Thank you for sharing this, Victoria 🦉
My result didn’t come up:(
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I nearly always get wolf/dog with these type of tests and I have always loved them so much. WOOF!
Nice! 🐶
Dragonfly – not the first time or place or quiz that it’s been the dragonfly that’s the result. Totally resonates with me.
Glad it resonates, Kalina. :)