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.
What Type of Inner Work Do You Need?
There are many routes we can take to get us through the depths of our unconscious. Which path should you take?
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!
I got horse. This isn’t much of a surprise when you consider what a prominent role the horse has played in my life. I have shared my life with horses for more than 40 years. They’re my first love in life.
Beautiful. I’m so glad this test reflected that for you Karen 🐎
I dont understand how to get the results! At the end, there was an option to share my results, but not to receive them, and when I clicked email, it just went to a blank screen ?
Sorry to hear that, Christelle. This shouldn’t have happened. Have you tried a new browser (e.g., Safari, firefox, chrome?)
I got bat, which reveals that I am a highly sensitive and empathic person. I am also going through a dark night of the soul. I resonated with it.
Love this. Thank you for sharing, Jonathan 🦇
Turtle.
Fabulous creatures. So resilient, in for the long haul.
Love the sea.
That’s me!
Wonderful! Glad to hear this Charlie 🐢
I got owl. I think I took this quiz several years ago with the same result. I have had interesting relationships with the kestrel, which (I just looked up) is a type of falcon and not an owl. But wisdom is important to me, which I do associate with Owl.
The bird family seems to resonate with you. I’m glad you got a result that resonated Kathy 💜
I did it twice because on two questions I was torn between two answers. First time I got Turtle and the second time, Spider. I have a tendency to talk to spiders so this was interesting.
Thank you for taking the test and sharing, Jan 🕷️
Panther, who has been with me in the past.
Thank you for sharing Wren 💜
First time (last year): Dragonfly
Second time(sometime this winter): Elephant
Third time (as of now): Dragonfly again
After watching a documentary on TV on those fascinating creatures, I appreciate them more than before.
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing, Ella 💜
I didn’t show me my results for the spirit animal quiz
Please reach out to support if you’re still having this issue, Jd. Should be working fine. ;)
I got the mystic on the wanderer test &my spirit animal is the spider
Thanks for sharing, Becky!