Animal-Speak Quotes

“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys. — Chief Dan George”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“What we consider imagination is a reality in some form on levels beyond the normal sensory world.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“The dragonfly and damselfly reflect and work with the sun and light. The light changes throughout the day. The dragonfly and damselfly undergo their own transformations. If they have shown up, look for change to occur. Are you resisting change when you shouldn’t? Dragonflies remind us that we are light and can reflect the light in powerful ways if we choose to do so. “Let there be light” is the divine prompting to use the creative imagination as a force within your life. This is part of what dragonflies and damselflies teach us.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“Sometimes the woodpecker will show up just to stimulate new rhythms. Rhythm is a powerful means of affecting the physical energies. Sometimes it is easy to get so wrapped up in our daily mental and spiritual activities that we neglect the physical. This can be when the woodpecker shows up. It may also reflect a need to drum some new changes and rhythms into your life. The woodpecker has strong hooked claws for firm holds upon a tree. Its tail feathers help to prop it upright. It also has a peculiar up and down flight. It will fly, coast down, fly and then coast down. It flies in a manner and rhythm unique to itself. All of this serves to emphasize the fact that it will become increasingly important for you to follow your own unique rhythms and flight. Do what works for you in the manner best for you. When woodpecker comes into your life, it indicates that the foundation is there. It is now safe to follow your own rhythms.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“Rivers have an ancient symbolic connection to animal life, creation and the flow of time. Rivers are places where animals will gather to drink.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“We find that magical creation is the force of life inherent in all things.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“The fox has a long history of magic and cunning associated with it. Because it is a creature of the night, it is often imbued with supernatural power. It is often most visible at the times of dawn and dusk, the “Between Times” when the magical world and the world in which we live intersect. It lives at the edges of forests and open land-the border areas. Because it is an animal of the “Between Times and Places,” it can be a guide to enter the Faerie Realm. Its appearance at such times can often signal that the Faerie Realm is about to open for the individual. In the Orient, it was believed that faxes were capable of assuming human form. In ancient Chinese lore, the fox acquires the faculty to become human at the age of 50, and on its hundredth birthday, it becomes either a wizard or a beautiful maiden who will ultimately destroy any man unlucky enough to fall in love with her. “There are several American Indian tribes that tell tales of hunters who accidentally discovered their wives were foxes.”52 This is very symbolic of the idea of magic being born within the feminine energies, and that unless a male can recognize the magic of the feminine-in himself or others-and learn to use it to shapeshift his own life, it will ultimately lead to destruction.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“Every animal is a gateway to the phenomenal world of the human spirit. What most fail to realize is that what they think of animals reflects the way they think of themselves.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“a bison has shown up for you, it may indicate opportunities to manifest or move toward manifesting abundance in some area of your life. This has hidden within it several cautionary notes, though. This is not a time to push or force. Follow the easiest path.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn . .. for all things speak of Tuawa. -Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnees Tribe to Natalie Curtis, circa 190441”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small