Animals and Pets: Powerful Teachers, Healers and Guides

Spirit Animals

During meditation I’ve been visited and assisted by a variety of spirit animals. Their appearance is always significant, their information accurate and the places that they lead vital. Spirit animals come in many forms; so far I have been lucky enough to be visited by a giant silver wolf named SeaWolf, a miniature white owl called Potter, and an enormous white/silver dragon who goes by Eros. Yes, the common denominators in my spirit animals appears to be that they are all wild and white. But I often wondered why I never received a visit from any former pets…especially the one I had bonded with the most closely in life; a german shepherd dog named Kenya.

A Chakra Meditation of Significance

Pondering spirit animals and their significance before a meditation one day I decided that I needed to work on my heart chakra. This was my focus going into the trance…but once I got to cleansing my chakras I noticed during the alignment that I had skipped over my heart chakra entirely (something I never do!). This was so odd that I realized immediately a significant message from my deeper self was presenting, so I dove in and put all of my focus on opening my heart chakra. I invited my guides to help clear it as there was a darkness I was having difficulty with. Once I had it clear and had continued my alignment a voice prompted me to shoot skyward, straight out of my crown chakra and into the pure white light that was pouring into it.

I traveled in this light for some time until I just seemed to slow down and rest on a platform. There on the platform sitting next to me was a glowing form I could not identify. I tried to clear my vision but it nothing came into focus, I tried to listen intently but there was nothing but kind hearted silence.

Perplexed, I sat down and the scene in front of me changed. I saw my dog Kenya’s face clearly but her body from her feet to her ears was bound in darkness. Her dark eyes pleaded with me and I instantly leapt from my platform of light into the darkness. When I reached her, I raised my energy so that my hands and body were pure light. I embraced her and the darkness melted. She was free.

An Old Friend

I was so shaken by this experience that I ended the meditation. Scenes from my past came flashing through my mind. I saw clearly the day we brought Kenya home when she was six weeks old and how she would follow my feet and keep track of every place I went. She chose me as her companion, which became obvious by the time she was 5 months old and my family conceded that she was my dog but in reality we belonged to each other.

She was my best friend through homelessness, depression and extreme poverty from the time that I was 15 until I was forced to give her up at 16 1/2. We were inseparable…everywhere I went, she went…but this was a bond that went beyond friendship and companionship…this was a spiritual bond. I cried for months over having to leave her…my parents argued that she was sick and pregnant and that we didn’t have the money to care for her or to feed her…surely the German Shepherd Shelter was the best alternative for her. I agreed but died inside. A part of me shut down and went with her…a part of my heart that I hadn’t opened since.

The Power to Heal

This was the part of me that needed to heal…this was the darkness I had encountered in my heart chakra during the meditation. After processing these memories for a few moments I became aware of Kenya’s presence so I dove back into trance once again soaring into the white light flowing through my crown chakra until it slowed and I came back to the same platform as before.

I was greeted by the same energy presence that was there previously…only this time as I watched, I realized I was looking at the form of my beloved dog…I simply couldn’t see her before through the darkness that had grown within me. I sat there with my arm around her in the state of perfect peace we had enjoyed so many times in life. Two separate beings sharing a moment of oneness with the ALL.

Pets as Teachers and Guides

Later, as I threw the ball for our german shepherd puppy Sango, I realized I hadn’t fully bonded with this dog. As we played I opened myself to her completely…relishing the feelings that I had not allowed myself to experience with an animal in all these years. I silently thanked Kenya for coming back and showing me how to release my heart, she was then and is still, a great teacher. Now, when I sense her presence I smile to myself knowing that loss doesn’t exist in spirit…the human mind is the only place you will find it