Animal Speak

Animal Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small by Ted Andrews helps you meet and work with animals as totems and spirits by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world.

It provides techniques for reading signs and omens in nature so you can open to higher perceptions and even prophecy. It reveals the hidden, mythical and realistic roles of 45 animals, 60 birds, 8 insects, and 6 reptiles.

In depth description: Animal Speak, The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small

Look around. You are surrounded by life. Insects and reptiles, birds and mammals fill our lives. You may have some as pets, or perhaps you are in a less urban environment where they are in the wilds around you.

As author Ted Andrews writes, There was a time when humanity recognized itself as part of nature, and nature as part of itself. It follows, then, that if you are a magical being, so, too, are animals. Think of what you could learn if only you could hear the ideas of the animals and attune with them. Animal Speak allows you to do exactly that.

This book includes a dictionary of bird totems, and shows how attuning with them will help you become more aware and powerful. For example, to better understand the energies of nature, attune with the blackbird. For longevity, attune with the crane. Do you want to become more involved with sacred dancing and drumming? Observe the grouse and attune to its instinct to make a muffled drumming sound each spring during mating rites.

You will also find a dictionary of animal totems. Here you will discover that the cougar teaches self empowerment; the tiger teaches passion, power, devotion and sensuality; and the prairie dog teaches about community.

In the dictionary of insect totems you will find that the praying mantis can share the power of stillness; the bee teaches fertility; and the ant shares the lessons of industry, order and discipline. The dictionary of reptile totems lets you know that frogs know of transformation through water and sound, while snakes hold the secrets of rebirth, resurrection, initiation, and wisdom.

This book does more than share the powers of the animals with its readers. It also lets you learn how to meet them on their terms. Andrews is a long-time volunteer at the Brukner Nature Center in Troy, Ohio, and has included information about animal behaviors, and interesting facts about them.

You will also learn the myths that surround them. Finally, with all of this information you will discover how to make use of life's greatest teachers to make changes in your daily life, and changes that will bring peace, prosperity, and self empowerment.

Descriptions of over 100 denizens of nature from ant to wolf, armadillo to spider, ostrich to beetle fill these pages. If you have ever wondered if they have a message for you, you'll want this book. If you have ever felt kinship to an animal and wondered why, this book has the answers. If you have ever seen an eagle soar through the air and wished you could feel that freedom, you need this book!

Never before has so much factual and mythic information about animals been collected in one volume. This book has become a standard in many book collections. It should be in yours, too!

Publisher Review: Animal Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small

Every day I sit in front of my computer. I'm surrounded by technology in every room of the house. I started to read Ted Andrew's Animal Speak, but then stopped. I went outside and listened to the birds and insects and animals as I continued reading. I realized that, indeed, when we isolate ourselves from nature we are actually separating ourselves from reality.

So this is truly a book that changed me. I try to get outside every pleasant day. And when I do, I think of what I learned in this book. I'm more attuned to the animals and they seem to share their secrets with me. Secrets of peaceful living and secrets of self empowerment. Secrets of spirituality and secrets of magic!

And the great thing is that with the guidance in this book I'm never limited. As you'll discover, there is animal after animal in this book that you can learn about and to which you can attune. Perhaps a lizard one day and a cat the next. Or perhaps you might find the power of the loon (who helps with lucid dreaming) to be just what you need.

One exercise I've found very useful is the technique used to call your spirit animal. You mediate on the animal and do simple visualizations, imagining it standing before you or drawing close to you. Eventually, you visualize it merging into you, feeling its energies as strong and vital. After spending just five minutes like this you will be more awake, aware and alert. Amazing!

This is one of those great books where there is a tremendous amount of information that can quickly and easily be put to good use. You can pick this book up anywhere, read a page or two, and find that you have something new to contemplate and put into practice.
I know you'll find this book as practical and useful as I have.

Editorial Reviews: Animal Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small

Thorough, interesting, informative, a great reference book for anyone who works with, or wishes to work with, animals, either as totems, spirit guides, or for divination. Highly recommended!" Ashlynn's Grove

"...[the] author's sense of wonder is infectious, and the knowledge he has gained first-hand is well worth learning." Exceptional Human Experience

"Nature lovers will relish this insightful compendium, chock-full of touching stories about natural history and animal folklore." Amazon.com, Occult and Metaphysics, Best of 2000

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