How do I contact my Spirit guide, Animal guide, Totem, etc.?

Question

I have been doing some research on spirit guides (or whatever you prefer to call them) and I was wondering how I could find out what my guide is and how I can reach it/ them. I have searched online, but alot of the things I found were vague or didn't work. I understand that a guide won't show itself to me right away.

How will I be able to tell when its there?

Can I communicate with it through meditation, lucid dreaming, astral projection, or some other method? If so, how?

Again, how will I know what it is? I have done tests, and a majority said dragon or dog.

Please post websites and books that have useful information (preferably websites. I am broke and can't afford books ;) )

If you would like me to add more details IM me, e-mail me, or just ask in your post and I will add more.

NOTE: Please do not answer if you do not believe in guides. I do not want mean remarks about my eternal soul or my mind. PLEASE DO NOT POST PRAYER/ SCRIPTURE!!!

I am a Wiccan and a Witch so spells or prayers would be good too.

Also, can I see them or speak to them?

Answer 1

You need to ask your Spirit Guide to reveal themselves to you. Because you might have more than one. I have three of them and met one of them in a dream.

For your totem (Animal Guide), it's usually an animal that you are drawn to above and beyond the rest. For example, I have a Siberian Tiger as a totem. You have to ask your animal to reveal itself to you.

Sounds kinda simple I know. But that's how I met mine. They will only reveal themselves when you are ready. Email me and i'll tell you how I met mine.

Answer 2

http://www.shamanism.org/ this is Michael Harner's website, he is the "go-to guy" for any questions you have on universal core shamanism. This is the path to find your power animal, or spirit animal. The task is a bit grueling, requiring skill in meditation, drumming, and focus of will. It requires an "underworld journey" usually facilitated by a practiced shaman, but can be done on your own. It is similar to a guided meditation. If you are familiar with the movie "Fight Club" there is a guided meditation in which Edward Norton's character is involved in a "cancer therapy group" where he "goes into his cave to meet his power animal..." (it is a penguin) This is very close to how you go about meeting your power animal. Others have answered this question with "drugs or hallucinogens." This is not recommended, it is true that in some cultures shamans utilized these psychotropic substances as tools to reach other realms. But they did so with reverence & honor to the spirit of the plant ally. Also back then there were no laws governing such ingestion, and they were also supervised by an experienced practitioner who remained sober or at least level headed enough to talk you down in case of a "bad trip.” Take my advice, try drumming & meditating in a serene spot, keep trying. If at first you don’t succeed try try again. If it gets too frustrating, find an experienced shaman and see if they can get their power animal to "fetch" your power animal, so you can have a proper introduction. Here is a website that has further instruction
http://www.shamanshome.com/power%20animals.html

http://www.mysticfamiliar.com/library/meditation/sp_animal_totem_med.htm

you can take any of these meditations and record them on a cassette tape, to facilitate the "guided medtiaon" if you dont like the sound of your own voice, ask a friend or relative with a calm soothing voice to record them for you. good luck!

Answer 3

A spirit guide is not a dragon or a dog. It is not a Chinese warrior or a Red Indian.

A spirit guide is pure spirit.

However, it will take on a shape that YOU are expecting. If you expect your guide to be a Red Indian, your guide will appear as Chief Sitting Bull as an example.

I reached mine through astral projection.
Met it/him/her for about 1 second - but that was enough to prove to me not only that it exists but also that we do not die when we stop breathing - if you know what I mean.

One other thing I have learned over the years.
Don't take all this too seriously.
Keep a sense of humour.
I know several people who have gone mad over this type of thing.

We will all find out soon enough.
The best advice is - forget it and use your life as it was meant to be used.

Mainly, not to worry about "afterwards"

Answer 4

From what I have heard, you will need to go on a spirit walk. Pack your gear, hike into the wilderness, whichever is where you are (forest, mountains, desert, etc), and listen. Listen while you walk, listen while you are camped, listen while you are asleap. Eventually, your spirit guide (usually an animal, sometimes the spirit of someone close to you) will contact you.

Again, from what I have heard, they do not "speak" to you, as you traditionally think of it. More, you simply come to understand something that the spirit animal/spirit guide is trying to impart to you.

I don't think you need to fast, but make sure that you eat healthier foods in this time. No junk food, no alcohol. Keep it simple. Take a radio/phone for emergencies, but leave them off unless you need them until you are done.

Answer 5

The best thing you can do is meditate. Just remember that it could take awhile and you might not always have the same guide from time to time. Certain guides stay with you and other ones stay long enough to teach you certain things, or to help you get through certain situations in your life.
Also, the spirit guides might actually take forms of things you could be afraid of (spiders, snakes) but do not be frightened of them. They are there to help you out, not harm you. Just remember to protect yourself before going into meditation.

Answer 6

I found a guided meditation that works good! You visualize a sandy beach on this beach you see the water in front of you. You see fog behind you, that is how you got to the beach. You also see fog to the left and to the right. The fog to the left leads to the past, the fog to the right leads to the future. Stand or sit on the beach and stare in to the void out by the horizon. After a while you feel someone behind you. Don't turn around yet though. Before you turn around ask them questions. Who are you? Why are you here? After they reveal that they are your guide ask them to show themselves. After your meeting make a deal that you can meet them on that same beach anytime. Now every time you travel to the beach all you need to do is think of your guide and they will be there.

Answer 7

You need to either get a tape of a guided meditation or with a group guided meditation being led by your high priest or priestess is you are part of a coven. Searching online for what you are after is just futile. If you are experienced enough you can do it yourself through meditation if you are able to put yourself between worlds.

Answer 8

I met mine when in deep meditation after many years of practice. This is something that requires discipline and having ABSOLUTELY NO PRECONCEPTIONS ABOUT IT OR YOU COULD BE DELUDING YOURSELF. When my experience occurred it happened naturally and without my having any expectations. Since that time I have had several additional visitations over the years, the manifestation for me has always been different at different times but unmistakable in it's nature. Honor the Spirit.

Answer 9

No, no one can tell you how to do it. They'll probably tell you to do something before you go to bed, and you'll have a dream, and then you'll think that's your spirit guide. Astral projection, love spells, money spells, spirit guides...the only occultists who say they can do such things are on drugs, lying, or psychotic.

Perhaps before you further into Wicca, you might want to consider the lives of famous occultists, and then decide if it is really worth persuing:

http://usminc.org/famous.html

None of those people had happy lives.
If there is any truth to the old saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.", that truth is found in the occult, and Wicca in particular. Silver Ravenwolf has written close to a dozen books on the subject of "The Craft", and claims she has been studying it since about 1969, which is almost as long as I’ve been alive. She has written a book on how to cast money spells, and includes a chapter on how to do so in her Teen Witch book. But the thing is, she doesn't particularly sound all that prosperous herself. Ravenwolf writes,

" For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at stying my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

OK, she so rich she can't go to the hairdresser. Hey, get me a copy of that Prosperity Spell book!

Silver Ravenwolf seems to have inadvertently discovered that Wicca makes things worse, but won't ever admit it as such.
In Teen Witch she says

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell".

Gee Silver, you would think a lot of people would be saying things like "Hey, Silver Ravenwolf, my life has improved tremendously with Wicca!" if Wicca is as great as they claim. Instead it makes lives much worse, and even Silver Ravenwolf admits she hears this a lot!!! (and I know no admits Silver Ravenwolf is a Wiccan, but that's what they say about any Wiccan author they don't like).

There are two forces at work in this universe: the counterfeit and the genuine. Wicca’s source of power is not the genuine. There’s just simply no way Wicca (and thus the copycat Neopagan religions) can be created from the black magic writings of “The Great Beast 666", the bizarre sexual practices of Gardner ( a nudist and masochist who coincidentally "discovered" a religion with all his fetishes), the spiritual “guidance” of the Watchers (fallen angels) and still be a source of good! And yes, Gardner was the first Wiccan. There are no "Fam Trads" older than the 20th century. If someone disagrees, I'd love to see the documentation.

I love all you Wiccans, I just have an opinion different than yours. I know you may not like it, I may not agree with what you say, but that's freedom of speech.

Answer 10

You can look into Remote Viewing from a scientific approach. You should already be "Familiar" with spirits residing in animals. This I think is usually temporary.I understand that some have told their guides to "Go away" at an early time in their lives without realizing the consequences. You can't really be sure who you are attracting to your life though. If they ask you to do things for them they might only want to use you. You should find your own "Center" and not be so inviting to spirits. Meditation is supposed to be the key to your own energy and strength.So, in that respect; Less is more. Here's one remote viewing site to look into.

http://www.trvnews.com/tsl/031502/index.html

Answer 11

Merry Met. My spirit guide came to me in a dream. I had simply sat in front of my altar with my white candles lit and asked for guidance. My spirit guide appeared in my dream, recurring over a week-a great American brown bear, holding a silver pentacle... Good luck finding yours! Blessed Be.