This article is part of the Spirit Animal hub, a single thread within the broader practice of inner work.
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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.
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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?
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I laughed when I got Wolf, that is what I had picked on the web preferences before I took the test. I do get visited by a red tail hawk some days. It has left me a gift of a feather too. My tiny patio garden attracts all types of visitors. The Wolf however has walked with me my whole life.
So This is Rather Interesting, Before I Took the Quiz I Thought Owl, And Owl it is…Stangely I’ve Been Drawn To Owl Photos for About A Year Now and Oh Yes, The Spirit Animal Changes. My Great Awakening Was Due To Dragonflies, I Had Three Fly In My Room and Land On My Pillow, What An ‘Awe’ Feeling, I Helped Them Back Outside and Didn’t Understand The Meaning For A Couple Months, I Was Right Back In ‘Awe’. I’m Forever Grateful For The Dragonflies, They Saved Me, I’ve Been Within Since. Okay, So I’m Also Black Panther and White Tiger, Yig Yang…lol
Love and Light To You Both, You Both Have Been With Me On My SoLo Jouney For Almost Four Years Now. I Feel Blessed…⭐⭐
I Would Like to Add That I Am Highly Intuitive, Clairvoyant, Extremely Empathic, INFJ-A… OWl
This website has helped me a lot and I thank you for the time energy and care you have put into helping others on there individual paths and I will soon be purchasing some of your material thank you so very much and I send much love to you and yours
Your friend,
John HR
Hello Luna & Sol,
I Just want to let you both know you are the best, your articles and quizzes have help me so much… Spirit Animal test just revealed to me, the WOLF! I taken it a couple other times and was given the turtle, must be title done resting and time for the Wolf to emerge.
Much Love & Light
I got turtle
i got wolf… not surprised i LOVE wolf!they are my favorite animal i have taken may other tests and they said wolf to so i think it was to be.
i also got wolf. i think it is always like that. i love wolves
my animal spirit is horse, willpower, freedom, motivation, passion, self-expression above all acheviement.
My spirit animal was the dragonfly
My animal was a wolf
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I’m so glad that I decided to take up this course, reading about spirit animal was amazing. I was like wow there is so much that a person does not know. I knew about totems, mine is a crab. I have been having dreams about an elephat, could that mean it is my spirit animal?
Try the test and find.Maybe it is your spirit animal.Good Luck!