#animal spirits

[k-tarotz]

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[skycladcoyote]

My finished Jackalope ✨

#animal spirits #my art #pyrography #wood burning artist #jackalope #cryptid #goblincore

[israpanther]

What would be the proper term for a witch who works with Animal Spirits, Nature, Herbs, Plants in general, what kind of witch would this be? Im Kemetic but have heavy emphasis on Animal Spirits (including Sacred Animals of the Netjeru) which is the main focus of my practice including Shapeshifting.

Side note: how do I find accurate reliable sources for Herbal Magic, not just Herbal remedies? I would like to find local ones for NA but have a feeling most sources would end up being Native American but am not sure. If so are there any European sources that would be open for practice?

#pagan #witch #paganism #witchcraft #hedgewitch #greenwitch #kitchenwitch #death witch #Herbs #herbal magic #magick #magic #Animal Spirits #Spirituality

[lailoken]

Hello, I was wondering if you might be able to speak a bit on offerings to spirits of deceased animals? I feel that, in case by case circumstances, divination could be used to find out what the particular spirit does and doesn’t like, but I was curious about your experience. Would you say animal spirits generally prefer offerings that correspond to their species’ natural diet during life? For example, would you find yourself offering milk to a bird spirit even though it would never consume it during it’s period of being alive, or would you be better off offering seeds? Would you find yourself collecting bug corpses to offer to an insectivorous Bat spirit or would you be able to offer cream and honey? Do preferences change in death or is it that the animal’s spirit can make use of the “spirit”/ “energy” the offering contains, regardless of how it fits into that animal’s diet during life? Curious to hear about your experience in this area, thanks.

Hello there,

This is an interesting question, and one that isn't necessarily easy to cleanly delineate. As you say, tastes in offerings can vary for individual spirits, and divination is, indeed, a good tool to make use of when in doubt.

Based on my own personal experience, the more recently a spirit has detached from its body, the more likely it is to prefer offerings that resemble what it would have eaten in life. This is particularly useful to have in mind if you’re hoping to draw out and entice an animal spirit. Even so, however, most spirits will still be drawn to/fed by certain things, even if they are prone to identifying more with their living habits when stirred. Honey is one such offering that will draw/appease most spirits, though there are others as well.

I hope that helps some!

#anonymous #ask #spirit work #animal spirits #offerings

[cinereys]

Coyote friend of mine, if only I could trade my nose for snout, my mouth for jaws, my skin for fur, my feet for paws, then we could run together, coyote friend of mine.

George Davis

#therian #coyote #animal spirits #words that i think about often #coyote friend of mine

[elminx]

On Bear

My oldest spirit friend, or at least my oldest spirit friend who I can prove was once a living spirit, is a bear that I met at a state park in the mountains.

I found him by following my nose if you get my drift. (I was a true crime nut so I thought I was going to find a person because what else smells that bad? In the woods, the answer is a bear)

I think that it was the first or second summer that my partner and I were dating. We drove up into the mountains for the gorgeous scenic vistas and decided to stop at this fir-lined state park.

That's where we met Bear.

The vultures had barely gotten to him, and they unwillingly scattered but stood by expectantly.

I've always had a thing with death. I can't walk away from it. I must lay witness.

I don't remember what I said so long ago, but judging from what I would say now, it would have been something like this:

Hello, bear. I'm so sorry, bear. I love you, bear. I hope that the next life treats you well.

Bear was the first fresh corpse that I ever found. I grew up in a hunting community so I have seen some things, but when it's game, you don't see the maggots. You don't stare into the holes where their eyes should be. You don't get to meet the vulture clean-up crews.

I was young. An adult, but very young. Nobody had taught me how to talk to the dead. I only had one living grandparent yet we did not go to visit our dead in the cemeteries.

The smell that had drawn us to bear was almost nonexistent now that we were close. I remember feeling immense grief that this beautiful animal had left our world, but also a deep knowing that it would return to the earth to someday become a part of life again. And then, something else.

Bear was still here. Bear is slow and quiet; he doesn't like to intrude. He feels a bit like hibernation. He doesn't need you to notice him.

But he does like the attention.

Both my partner and I felt bear stir that day. It was almost as if his spirit hadn't yet arisen from his corpse but in speaking his name, I awakened him. He was slow and kind. He didn't mind that he was dead. But he appreciated that we had cared enough to stop and say goodbye to him.

My partner and I talked about Bear for months afterward. Neither of us had spoken about our spirituality prior but we both had a background in working with nature and nature spirits. Mine was more geared towards witchcraft whereas they had been trained by crazy trackers at a lodge on the AT. Without mentioning it to the other, we had both experienced bear's spirit.

We decided to go back and see him.

It was late Autumn and much colder. A couple of months had passed since we had found bear and we weren't sure if we would find any remains of him. In the mountains, there are many large scavengers.

All the tall grass had turned to seed so it was much easier to find him. We found most a skull, one side of his jaw, a large section of spine (intact and not), and some small pieces that looked like they may have been part of his paw. But, more interestingly, bear was still there!

He had been waiting for us. Just like we had been waiting for him.

That's the thing about bear. He's not loud or intrusive, but if you listen for him, he makes himself known.

Bear's body had fed the forest, but Bear had nowhere to go. I don't really understand if bear asked to come home with me, or if I asked bear if he wanted to come home with me, but in some way, we both agreed that was the thing to do.

And that's how we met bear. These days, a piece of his spine lives on my altar with the remains of my cat and the ancestors. I don't "work" with bear (he sleeps most of the time), but he is a wonderful companion for cold winter days and a reminder that it's okay to slow down when you don't have anywhere you need to be.

#bears name changed to protect his autonomy #words #mine #personal #my practice #spirit work #death work #animal spirits #bear #Ursus americanus

[starseededhippie]

#animal spirits #spirit guides #guides #symbolism #symbols #meanings

[actiwitch]

RABBIT SPIRIT

#animism #animist #moodboard #animal spirits #witch #pagan #animal witch #earth witch #imbolc

[wolverinesorcery]

Paleoancestor veneration

Paleoancestors (also called deep time ancestors) are a collection of Ancestors I’ve not often seen talked about. There is a lot of overlap between paleoancestor veneration and paleoanimism/deep time spirit work – it is important to establish a firm connection with the paleoancestors you’re interested in venerating so they have a link to you as well. It’s also something I’ve found to be far more research-heavy than ancestor work involving humans and both more enjoyable and more challenging (palaeontology talks are enlightening but can also be an information overwhelm).

There are two main branches of paleoancestor work that I’ve found, that being paleoancestor archetypes and paleoancestor individuals (there are many mammoths, but only one Mammoth). I have a preference for the archetypes over individuals currently so the majority of this post will be from that perspective. Paleoancestor veneration is a practice I’ve found to be incredibly meaningful and a way to connect to the world around me.

There are a few methods I’ve used to contact paleoancestors, the main one being ‘walking back’ (a meditative exercise posted below). My second favourite option is connecting via the land and taking into consideration what megafauna + other extinct beings would have inhabited it before me - it’s easy to find what fossils have been discovered in your area and what more recently extinct animals called it home. 

‘Walking back’

A technique I’ve found fantastic for initially contacting paleo-ancestors is ‘walking back through time.’ It’s a meditative exercise that roughly follows this structure:

Find yourself at the mouth of a cave through whichever sense you find best – smell the damp cave walls, touch the rough rock, or look down into the depths.

Enter the tunnel, feel the ridges of rock layers on the wall and the fossils embedded within, feel the history of the rock and look at the striations of time.  

Walk deeper into the tunnel, find yourself travelling back through the ages, past the industrialisation of the world, past the spreading of agriculture. With each major mark of an extinction event, find a branching passage.      

When you find a passage that feels ‘right’, explore it – walk down it, feel and look at the fossils extruding from the walls. At the end, there is a light and fresh air – perhaps it has a peculiar taste to it if you are in the Cambrian era, or maybe it is heavy with moisture from a Cretaceous polar forest.  

Emerge from the tunnel into a new, exciting, unexplored place. Venture into the environment and see what approaches you. If at any point you are afraid, or in danger, there is an easy out – look down at your feet for a hole, crevice or chasm into the ground below and slip into it, back into the tunnel, and walk home.    

Communication

Ancestors communicate in different ways, depending on the era they are from. Pikaia has a much more basal version of communicating with me, a human, than Cave Lion does. Pikaia only communicates with the most basic essence of a sentence or message: it resembles talking with ‘feeling words’ only but has no bearing on the depth or complexity of the messages 

An example of this is, when seeking advice on a situation regarding anxiety for the summer, Pikaia’s advice was “warmth, joy, blue (colour)” and I roughly interpreted as the summer will be joyful and warm if I make it that way, but not to forget my needs (the blue colour’s meaning in my personal practice). 

Cave Lion’s communication style is much more familiar to me and uses full sentences (though, he is reserved with how much he speaks).

Something that has been invaluable with paleoancestor work is keeping a constant record of communication, advice, and lessons. This is especially important if engaging with them on a personal level outside of asking for general advice and favours at an ancestor altar. This has been most helpful with learning Pikaia’s communication style!

Not all deep time ancestors are receptive to human contact (at least initially), especially if they are a relatively recently extinct animal whorse distruction humans may have played a part in. I’ve found that giving them gifts and allowing them to dictate the terms of communication (within reason) is deeply helpful and even gives them space to grieve their loss. The most recent experience of mine that has made this necessary is Aurochs, who expressed grief and rage over her own species fate as well as the fate of her descendants (domesticated cows).

Outside of direct communication through meditation, it is entirely dependent on the ancestor what they’d prefer as an intermediary. Cave Lion talks through my animal tarot, Aurochs prefers only direct astral communication, and Pikaia works in mysterious ways and will only occasionally talk through specific decks, tools, or will sometimes appear through my intuition.

Altars and gifts

This is entirely dependent on the ancestor – Pikaia has not asked for anything beyond that I swim in the ocean regularly, while Cave Lion asked for a hand-drawn charcoal art piece reminiscent of cave art and an object so I can carry him with me regularly. Aurochs has asked of me that I don’t consume beef at all and dairy as rarely as possible (which is something I am okay with doing for her), because of her grief over the loss of her species. Altar-wise, I’ve given all of them the option of space on my main working place side by side with the deities I connect with. This is where Cave Lion’s art lives, along with a dish for any food gifts they may request or receive as a surprise.

As a semi-gift for my paleo-ancestors I follow rewilding projects closely and involve myself with the land & sea – it’s something that has been fairly continuous throughout time after all. Keeping the environment free of litter, well cared for and 'understood' has also helped strengthen my connections to them. This has extended into the political too – trespass and rewilding are political issues that I’ve thrown my weight behind (along with various others).

Paleoancestor veneration is a practice I’ve found to be incredibly meaningful and a way to connect to the world around me and something I am always excited to talk about and share with other folks that might not realise it's an option! My askbox is open for any questions about any of the above post.

Links

Dinosaurs in your locale (website, global)

DIY Animism (animism & spirit work text that has been foundational in how I interact with animal spirits, book, global)

The Missing Lynx (book about UK extinctions from oldest to most recent, book, UK)

Royal Tyrrel Museum (posts paleontology talks for free, YouTube, Global)

Paleoancestors mentioned

Cave Lion, Panthera Spelaea (wikipedia) / Pikaia (wikipedia) / Aurochs, Bos Primigenius (wikipedia)

(Some tags of mine that include paleoancestors - paleoancestors + deep time ancestors)

#paleoancestors #paleo ancestor #ancestor veneration #ancestor worship #ancestor work #ancestor #ancestors #deep time ancestors #witchcraft #witches of tumblr #heddwyn post #witchblr #animism #paleoanimism #lupa greenwolf #DIY animism #rewilding #spirit work #animal spirits

[scienceandstorytelling]

Has anyone ever worked with the spirit of an animal you personally killed? I butchered a rabbit and tanned the hide, and I have no idea if any of the rabbit’s spirit is still attached to it, but if there is I wonder, does he want me to do anything for him/with his pelt? Does he just want me to leave him alone? Would he be scared if I reached out to him? Does anyone have experience with this type of situation?

#animal spirits #animal spirit work #Spirit work

[k-tarotz]

Hey guys 💖

I was wondering if I could get one of my spirit animals 😅.

My fun fact is I've had a recent fixation with octopus (I watched the octopus teacher. you should watch it, it's really sweet).

Thank you guys so much 🌻

Thank you for your patience! <3

One of your spirit animals is...

it stands for paying attention to detail, seeing the full picture and friendliness! <3

#tarot #oracle #animal spirit #animal spirits

[skycladcoyote]

Bromus 🌿

#art #handmade #animal spirits #slow art #mask maker #devotional mask #paganism #baphomet #goat #nature spirit #mask #pan

[badoccultadvice]

Keeping Animal Familiars and/or Being Kept By Them

A cat video with some musings on animal familiars and my experience with them.

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#familiars #animal familiars #animal spirits #spirit familiars #witchcraft #witchcraft community #cats #witchy cats #Youtube

[clairity-org]

Jim Denomie, Totem, Animal Spirits, 2021, Wood, oil paint, deer antlers, horse hair, found objects, 8/19/23 #artsmia by Sharon Mollerus

#Wood #Minneapolis Institute of Art #Totem #Animal Spirits #2021 #found objects #museum #deer antlers #Jim Denomie #oil paint #horse hair #Minnesota #Minneapolis #MN #flickr

[dandelionpath]

hi! if i’ve already befriended an animal spirit but i would love something to house him in. I would love an animal skin but would they already have a spirit?

Hiya! I'm going to give you a couple different answers, as I'm seeing a couple different questions here

So first for what to do about unhoused/unanchored spirits, you can either keep it that way which is totally fine tbh, or find a physical object to anchor/house the spirit in. I absolutely understand that it's easier and honestly just overall nicer to have a physical object that's tied to working with a spirit! For a handful of spirit companions in the past, I had individual necklaces for each, and for a bear spirit that I didn't have any physical part of I used a bracelet!

But onto the second answer, you can also absolutely use an animal skin or piece of animal that isn't already directly tied to that specific spirit! I find that fur pieces that aren't full pelts, heads, or tails, seem to have less of a chance of a spirit being attached to them. Same thing with bones - anything that isn't a skull seems to have less of a chance to still have the spirit attached to them.

But if you've got one of those things already, no worries! You can always check if there's a spirit still attached or "inside", so to speak. Check if the animal is home still, and if they are, then they might wish to "move on" and let go of that piece so that you'll be able to use it for another spirit! If they're still there and don't want to move on, ask if they're willing to share (it's a possibility LOL), and if not, then maybe find a different anchor/house to use.

Here's a post that I wrote three years ago (wowzas, long time ago tbh) that goes into the process of "knocking on the door" to see if anyone's home in a specific animal piece: https://dandelionpath.tumblr.com/post/188238538171/animal-spirit-work-massive-how-to

So TL;DR: Yes, you can use any object, but you can also definitely use an animal skin. The animal skin may or may not have a spirit already/still attached, but (next bit is UPG) there's more of a chance of it being empty if it isn't a skull, tail, face, full pelt.

If you've got any other questions, feel free to ask! I may not post here very often anymore, but I'm always happy to answer questions :)

#comet answers #comets posts #animal spirit work #animal spirits #spirit work

[fieriframes]

[Animal spirits do not have the same faculty.]

#s39e05 pasta potatoes & pescatarian #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #animal spirits #same faculty