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Do you have a Spirit Guide? Native beliefs explain that a totem animal is one that is with you for life, both in the physical and spiritual world. Though people may identify with different animal Spirits it is actualy animal Spirits that we are born with.

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ANIMAL SPIRIT GUIDES & TOTEMS (medicine)

a wonderful Web page

http://www.manataka.org/page291.html

Some Native Americans believe that upon birth an animal’s spirit enters into that person.

Its duties are to keep each person strong and wise as well as to excel in matters of attributes given to that Animal.

A deer is an animal of love, tenderness,and swiftness, it guides throughout their lifetimes, it is this one totem animal that acts as the main guardian spirit.

My animal spirit journey starts here, with this simple story of a dog’s love for a little girl. When I was adopted I was 16 months old. My aunt, had a Border Collie pup she couldn’t care for at the time and gave to me when I was 2. We named her Lady. No one knew how special this dog was. My Mom was one of those who harnessed their kids,I don’t care, hubby hates the photos I have of it. It was so I could play outside and she could safely run in and tend to dinner if she needed. Well, I got loose one day and my Mom ran out as soon as she noticed. As I was running down the street she saw with Lady next to me and a neighbor’s dog on the other side of me. I ran into the road in front of a car, the car was a few car lengths back, but Lady ran and jumped on the hood of the car and made it stop. Mom and myself tell/told this story often Over the years.

And there is more, when my parents where drunk and yelling and fighting Lady scratched the door open to my room, would lick my tears away. She was so strong, but then would shake all over and I would hug her tight. All my will and thoughts onto her, holding her tight, and it helped me forget the yelling and fighting. This happened so often and it was along time before I had wondered how she got into my room all the time. I tried over and over, shutting the door, slamming the door, it always latched perfect, there were hundreds of scratches at the bottom from her scratching to get in, but how did she get in? I was a freshman in high school when she had to be put down for a very large cancerous growth on her leg. Both we and the vet feared that while my parents where at work, and we were in school, the tumor would split and she would suffer horrible pain alone at home. I tried to say goodbye that morning before school, my eyes full of tears, just like now as I write this, and she sat in the front yard. She wouldn’t look at me at all, instead stared into the sky. Those where the only tears I shed over her though, no matter how many times I tell her story (until now). I have shed many over other pets I have had, but not her because, perhaps, I know I don’t have to worry about this wonderful spirit as she is so special.

This isn’t the end of my spirit journey, I believe another animal has spoken to me for many years as a child i wandered off to be alone in the woods at my Aunt’s, not really lost, but a little afraid I might be. I suddenly saw a big Buck. I reached out and barely touched his nose and he ran off. I practically jumped out of my skin. Then I had my cousins telling ghost stories of a mean deer in the woods that would be after me. And then, another experience was my father hunting deer and me crying at the sight of a mom deer and her baby they didnt mean to shoot the mother and knew the baby wouldnt survive. I was screaming and crying for days, which in turn made my father give up hunting or at least I didnt know if he still was, he just couldn’t take my sadness.  Read more here