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Animal Symbols
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BAT
Asian charm depicts five bats as the blessing of health, wealth, love of virtue,
old age, and a natural death.
BEAR
Childbearing, powerfully protective mother instincts, hibernation symbolizes
introspection and self-renewal.
BEES, BEETLES, WINGED INSECTS
Harbingers of Sprint, Earth's fertility, social cooperation, industriousness.
BUTTERFLY
Ancient symbol of the soul, exemplifies transformation; represents and early and
happy marriage in some Asian cultures.
CAT
Personal pride, self-assurance, love of beauty and comfort. Black cats are
especially lucky (associations with bad luck come from the Medieval Church,
which reviled cats because they were the totem animals of the Love Goddess);
embody the Spirits of Place because of their attachment to their homes.
COW
Earth mother, nourishment, taking care of physical needs, the wealth of the
Earth, fertility cycles of the Moon.
COYOTE
Cleverness, guise of the trickster, surviving by ones wits.
DEER
Maternal affection, healing touch, grace and gentility.
DOG
Companionship, fidelity, household guardian.
DOLPHIN
The connection between human sentience and that of the animal kingdom.
DRAGON
The raw, powerful, flowing, energies of the Life Force as it courses through
landforms and the elements of Fire, Water, and Air.
DRAGONFLY
Ethereal, illusionary beauty.
FISH
The Water element, fertility and richness.
FROG
Transformation, evolution, small impulses that lead to meaningful things; also,
the herald of nourishing rain and the beginning of spring.
HORSE
Great power coupled with great gentility, personal power in both physical and
spiritual domains.
LADYBUG
Good luck coming from the gifts of the Love Goddess.
LAMB
Innocence, the playful vitality of youth.
LION
The raw power of the Fire element.
LIZARD
Basking habits show the lizards love of the Sun, and the Sun returns that love;
symbolized the solar powers that value and nourish even the small things.
MOUSE
The importance of the small things in life.
PIG
Their rounded shape suggests pregnancy, fertility, and abundance, their rooting
around also associates them with the Earth mysteries.
RABBIT
Fertility, sexuality, abundance.
SCARAB BEETLE
Transformation, rebirth into eternal life.
SERPENT
Associated with the healing arts because of self-renewal and spiraling coils
suggesting the flow of the life Force; and going into the ground represents
knowledge of the mysteries.
SPIDER
The web of life (ancient symbol relevant to modern ecology), personal skill,
good luck for craftpersons and witches.
TOAD
A spirit of place that confers well being to a home; recognizing beauty in
homely things.
TURTLE
Longevity and protective security; in Native American lore.
UNICORN
Purity, innocence, justice, the untouched state of Nature.
WOLF
Finding new energy by making contact with the inner, wild, and primitive level
of being.