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 inner work lessons and truths that we haven’t yet had the stomach to digest.
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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.
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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?
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Turtle 🐢❤️🕉️
It has been a while since I did my spirit animal quiz. I am now a Panther. I love the black panther, my ultimate favorite big cat. Empowered is a good description of how I felt. Moving forward from my resting turtle spirit animal, I rested long enough.
Thanks for this gift! The horse hits the spot I needed to feel. And has given me HOPE for a clearer path to where I belong in the near future 😁🙏
Thanks Wendy for sharing this!
Thought I was taking a different spirit animal test. Supposed to be animal teacher, don’t know what the first one was…anywhere this time I got dragonfly, last time I got dolphin. Felt like the questions and my answers were the same in both.
Dolphin!
Me gusta mucho, aun no lo hice pero seguro que lo hago luego!!
I got a dragon fly? 😂 I really don’t know.
Spider. While I appreciate our 6- and 8-legged animal friends, I hadn’t really expected a spider as my spirit animal 😊 But I like this: “As your spirit animal, Spider reveals that you are a person who is highly perceptive and has the gift of seeing the big picture.”
Elephant
I got wolf!
Me too haha!