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Spirit and Dream Animals, by Richard Webster

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Many years ago, while doing some research in Hong Kong, I accidentally overheard two women talking about dream animals. I went into a café and sat down at a table next to an attractive Asian lady and her American friend. I wasn't paying any attention to their conversation, until I suddenly heard the Asian lady explaining the concept of animal dreaming to her friend. According to her, if a woman dreamt of an animal about the time she became pregnant, her baby would possess the qualities of the animal she had dreamt about. I was fascinated, and after apologizing for overhearing the conversation, asked if I could join in.

The two ladies were very kind and gracious, and allowed me to join them. I learned that, in Asia, dreams are believed to be created by a lack of energy. However, dreaming of an animal does the opposite. These dreams create energy, in addition to providing valuable clues about the personality of the unborn child. I also learned that not all pregnant women dream of animals. These dreams occur only if the unborn child has significant potential.

The Asian woman leaned towards me. "Did you know that Buddha's mother dreamed of a gorgeous white elephant with six tusks that ran around her bed three times?" she asked. "That's a classic example of a prophetic animal dream."

I chatted with the two ladies for about an hour. Just before leaving them, I learned that it was important that the mother-to-be told no one about her animal dreams. "My mother had several dreams involving me before I was born," the Asian lady told me. "She told me they were good, but that's all she's told me about them."

When I returned to my hotel, I wrote down everything I could remember about the conversation. As I'm interested in both dreams and animal symbolism, I tried to learn more about the dreams pregnant women have about animals. Unfortunately, the people I spoke to weren't able to tell me anything that the two women hadn't already covered.

About ten years later, while in Singapore, I was fortunate enough to meet a lady who made her living interpreting t'aimeng, which are predictive dreams about unborn children. Once I got to know her, she was happy to answer my questions, and encouraged me to write Spirit & Dream Animals.

A month or two after that, I had a predictive dream. In the dream I was driving into the city on the freeway. The car in front of me had a personalized plate that read "animal." One week later, I was driving along the same stretch of road that had been in my dream, and saw a car with the personalized plate "anamal." The spelling was slightly different, but it was obviously an omen. Over the years, I've learned to act on these, and a week or two later I began working on the book.

Although I first heard about predictive dreams involving animals while traveling in the Far East, they can be found all around the world. Here's an example. Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great, dreamt that she was sleeping with Ammon, the horned god. In the dream, Ammon told her that she had conceived a male child who would be her avenger.

Men can also experience predictive dreams about their unborn children. In the Bible, Joseph experienced a predictive dream after discovering that Mary, his wife, was pregnant. An angel appeared to him in the dream and told him the unborn child, Jesus, was the Son of God (Matthew 1:20-21).

Animals are often overlooked in our dreams. However, they fulfill an important purpose. Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist, noticed that people frequently dream of helpful animals, or animal-headed people, when they are ill. In some way, these animals symbolize the healing process. One of the central beliefs of shamanism is the intrinsic connection between animals and humans. Shamans perform their tasks by using their power animals, or guardian spirits, to connect with the animal world. This connection frequently occurs in dreams.

Animals sometimes appear in dreams as human beings. The Jívaro people of South America find that a guardian spirit usually appears first as an animal, before appearing as a human being in a dream. The Jívaro believe that if an animal speaks to you, it is undoubtedly your power animal. It's not surprising that animals can appear in human form in our dreams, as we are both living on this planet together, and are related in many different ways.

Australian Aborigines frequently refer to "Dreamtime," when the world was fresh and new, and ancestor spirits created form and shape to the land. Some of these mythic beings were people, while others were totem animals. The ancestor spirits had the ability to change from person to animal to help them decide what they wanted to be. According to Aborigine belief, animals still remember making their choice. The great fertility mothers and male genitors created the first people; these mythic figures are eternal, and even though some are killed, disappear, or change shape in the Aboriginal mythic stories, their integral qualities remain. They are spiritually just as alive today as they ever were, and the places where they metamorphosed became, and remain, sacred grounds. In the Dreamtime, man is just one part of nature, and is not considered especially different to the mythic people and animals that live there. The land still retains its memories of the Dreamtime, as do the Aboriginal people. Everyone is given an animal spirit at birth, and this provides the person with guidance, wisdom, and protection.

Dreaming of animals can be highly beneficial. They provide comfort, advice, and protection; they even provide advance warning of upcoming danger, when necessary. Their task is to help you progress through life. Because of this, you should pay attention to your animal dreams.

You should also be aware of your guardian animals while you are awake. If you are not aware of your guardian animals, ask them to make themselves known to you in your dreams. Once you have discovered who they are, communicate with them regularly, and call on them whenever you need advice, help, or comfort.

By paying attention to your guardian animals, and the animals that appear in your dreams, you'll gain confidence and a sense of direction and purpose. Every aspect of your life will improve as a result.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2011. All rights reserved.

At my first visit with a psychic, I asked who my spirit guide is. I was told his name is Frederick, and the past life we lived together was described to me. Shortly after this visit, I joined a mediumship circle, and I asked the teacher of the group the same question. Again I was told his name is Frederick. I was also told to search the internet, and when I come upon the word angel, I would know I had found who he was and the past life we had shared. My research validates the information told to me by both psychics. However, even though the name Frederick was common to both, the information was about two different past lives. Apparently, in one life he was my protector, and in the other life I was his governess. My question is: Is it possible that I shared multiple past lives with my spirit guide?
Bunni

Susyn:

It is not unusual to share multiple past lives with our spirit guides as well as our loved ones. In fact, many of our spirit guides are people we have known in either our current incarnation or in past lives. Once they pass over, they take on the task of protecting us for the remainder of our lives here on the earth plane.

Sometimes a loved one will choose not to incarnate during a particular lifetime and opt to remain in the spirit world where they can serve as our personal guides. Other spirit guides never experience a human incarnation, for their main purpose is to watch over and direct us.

I love the fact that we have access to the internet nowadays and can research people or spirits we shared past lives with at the touch of a button. It is a wonderful way to validate our experiences with reincarnation, which can otherwise be difficult to prove. Now that we have an endless source of history at our fingertips, validating the information we intuit is much easier. As the internet expands and the world gets smaller, there is no limit to what we might discover.

It is commonly accepted that we tend to travel from lifetime to lifetime as a group. I am not certain how often people reincarnate with the same names or surnames, but it is not out of the question that your guide went by the name Frederick in both instances. We can serve different roles from lifetime to lifetime, so we may be the parent of an individual in one life and a child of the same person in the next. In this way, we get to experience our favorite souls on a multitude of levels.

A past-life reading can sometimes bring up more than one incarnation at a time, so a psychic might be looking at two or three life spans at once. What you can rely on is that the spirit guides who carry the strongest and most enduring connections will come through. On that note, it appears Frederick may be the spirit guide most prominent in your life.

You may want to try a guided meditation to learn more. With the information you already possess, you can call on Frederick directly and ask him to speak with you. He could reveal images and clues regarding the past lives you have shared or send helpful messages about current issues you are dealing with. Either way, it is a good idea to capitalize on your discovery. Now that a door to Frederick's identity has opened, it should be easier than ever to hear and sense his presence and to remember that he is traveling with you in this lifetime as well.

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Oceania:

When clients ask about their spirit guides, I find that they're avoiding putting in the effort to build a personal relationship with their guide and any other source of inner wisdom. Knowing a guide's name does not mean you know him or her, so I recommend you just start talking to your guide and practice listening. Your guide doesn't care what you call him/her, so you may choose a name of your own liking.

You seem reluctant to trust in your own judgment, so I encourage you to make some decisions, make a mess, and make mistakes. You seem eager to abdicate your power and hand it off to others whom you place in positions of authority, whether or not they deserve it. You gave your power away to a psychic you'd never met before, to the leader of a group you'd just joined, and now to us so that we could all tell you about YOUR spirit guide, who is yet another being you want to place in a position of power.

I wonder if your family dynamics pressured you into seeing yourself as inadequate and incapable. Were you fearful of challenging or outshining your parents? Where's Bunni in all this? Even your name conjures up an image of a vulnerable creature about to be carried away and eaten by a hawk.

If Bunni's a nickname, you might consider letting it go for now. If it's your real first name, consider going by your middle or last name for a while. Better yet, create a new name to represent your genuine, radiant, spiritual self. (Just don't ask someone else what that name should be!) Even if you don't use it publicly, at least start using your fabulous new name privately. You might also choose a talisman like a special ring to remind you of your newfound sturdy identity.

Like a bunny, you've been passively hiding out. Marianne Williamson wrote: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

I took the liberty of asking Frederick to guide me in choosing a tarot card for you, and now you've got TWO of us wanting you to reclaim your power and dare to dream, as the card turned out to be Number I, the Magician - the most empowered card in the deck! It invites you to be boldly creative, to define your own truth, and to courageously manifest your dreams.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.