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The Spirit Language and Signs of Nature

Creating your animal totem, benefits of it and over 150 animal dictionary

1 of 4 great animal spirit/dictionary books

The first part of Animal-Wise is to teach you about animal totems and how to create your own animal totem by selecting the correct animals for yourself.

By using the 7 Chakras of the human bodyas  a starting point, Ted Andrews adds an 8th element, your feet as the base totem.  This gives you the following 8 elements of the body that need an animal that represents each individual element:

1. Feet (base)
2. Root or Base (gonads and ovaries)
3. Spleen (adrenals, spleen & liver)
4. Solar Plexus (adrenals)
5. Heart (thymus)
6. Throat (thyroid)
7. Brow (pituitary)
8. Crown (top of head)

Animal Wise guides your through the process of selecting the right animal for each part of the body, making it fun and simple.  It can take anywhere from a few days to a month or more to find the right animal for your animal totems, but it is well worth the time.

Who should buy Animal-Wise?

If you have read my site for the last few weeks you may have noticed this is the 4th animal spirit book and you may be wondering which you should pick up.

Ted Andrews has created a book for anyone who really wants to find out how to REALLY build a correct animal totem for yourself, that is the main puprose of this book.

Also, Animal-Wise does an amazing job of describing the animals, many times each animal will get 2 full pages of text that describes the animals personalities better than any other animal spirit book.

Another great feature of this book is the fact that the animals are quite rare and you will probably not find these animals in the other animal spirit books.

Animal Speak, The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

Learn the Language of the Animals

If you really love animals then Ted Andrew’s Animal Speak is the perfect book for you.  Animal Speak will help you understand and appreciate each and every animal’s amazingly different personality.

Discover the power and spiritual significance of many animals,  birds, insects and reptiles.  Each animal can help you in life once you learn what they are trying to say to you and the world.

This book will also help you create your own animal totem, which was made famous by the Native Americans tall and beautiful Totem Poles which have many animals stacked upon each other.

Animal Speak Overview

Animal Speak is broken into 4 parts which will be explained below.  If you are looking for a book to list most of the popular animals and their spirit meanings, i would recommend Ted Andrew’s other book called Animal Spirit Guide which is more of a reference book.

What this book focuses on is really becoming attuned with the animal spirits by teaching you different methods to spiritually connect with animals.

Part 1: Symbols in the Nature World
In 4 chapters, Ted Andrews sets up the world we live in and how we should live a proper life by observing nature around us.  In big cities we are rarely in nature so we have lost this ability, but Animal Speak does an amazing job of teaching us “City Folk” how to become attune with animals and nature.  Learn how to read signs and omens in nature and understand the meanings of landscapes, which help shape the personalities of each animal that lives in such diverse places in nature.

Part 2: Winged Enchantment
This section of Animal Speak is the largest and most detailed, and it is easy to see why.  Andrews describes the power of the air, feather magic and working with bird medicine.  At the end of the section you can find a dictionary of bird totems, which is quite extensive.  If you are more into birds than animals you should consider this book over Ted Andrew’s Animal Spirit Guide book which focuses more on mammals.

Part 3: Understanding Animal Medicine
This part of the book describes how to create your own animal totems and understanding animal rites.  When trying to understand a certain animal i often like to read the description Ted Andrews describes in detail on each listed animal.  I love to find out a person’s favorite animal and then look up the meanings in this book and also Animal Spirit Guide.  This section also includes a dictionary of animals, which includes it’s keynote (important personality facts) and cycle of power (which season).

Part 4: The Exotic Language of Insects and Reptiles
The smallest section of the book deals with the lives of insects and reptiles.  The last section of Animal Speak explains the two last groups separately and also includes the dictionary of insect totems and reptile totems.