Crab
This spirit helper, comes from the water and symbolises your unconscious. It will teach you to move through waters, to be unaffected by the moods and feelings of others. This is good in business and leadership roles.
It is telling you to consider the elements in your life that needs to be set free. Let go of an issue that is troubling you. Develop a harder shell around your sensitive nature. Learn when to hold on and when to let go of opportunities or challenges.
Crane
Cricket
Crickets stop singing when a storm is approaching. It may be a warning that an emotional, mental or physical challenge is coming your way.
Crow
The crow caws to others to warn of impending danger. You have the ability to bring others out of danger.
Cawing times/direction:
First quarter of the day
East: the soul benefits
North: Financial profit
West: all matters go against expectations
South: Enemies harass well
Northeast: Angers well
Northwest: Expectations don't materialise
Southwest: Needs to make compromise with enemies more than to expect benefits
Southeast: Gains assistance from the woman folk of the enemy
Second quarter of the day
East: Gains a life partner
North & West: Presage for comfort
South: The hearer gains honor in the society
Northeast: Inauspicious premonition
Northwest: Disadvantage for the son
Southwest: Stay alert
Southeast: Cause for quarrel
Third quarter of day
East: Heavy rain will fall, theft increases, the enemy may admit defeat and makes you the victor
North: Mixed presage, one gains money with effort
West: Achieves desires, wealth arrives, enemies will leave
South: Loss of honour, arrival of inauspicious news, quarrels may occur
Northeast: Arrival of disease, crisis, rain falls for the day
Northwest: The hearer gains financially and recovers from disease
Southwest: Arrival of disease and crisis
Southeast: Loss of honour, receives inauspicious news, quarrels and outbreaks
Fourth quarter of day
East: Gains honour, receives some inauspicious news
North: One meets his beloved who will be attractive, gains financially
West: One meets the person who would cause him financial gain
South: Stay alert of enemies, avoid overeating and drinking, maintain a distance while walking on the road
Northeast: Frustration for the hearer, something inauspicious occurs
Northwest: Is freed from disease, rains, gains a travel opportunity, meets a life partner
Southwest: The hearer should go to sleep under a bedsheet and avoid any voice or noise he hears
Southeast: Fear of disease, one meets a good friend
The crow is constantly on guard and share his findings with others. Check if your partner warn you of something, do not belittle him/her, verbally acknowledge and thank him/her. The crow is also telling you to act within the day. The crow may shriek at that moment when you are thinking of something, to draw your attention to it.
The crow is attracted to bright and shiny objects. Be prepared to take advantage of opportunities, but do not take what does not belong to you.
Deer
People with deer medicine has great ideas, much like Einstein. While most people wonder what to do with their lives, people with deer medicine wonder when they would have time to accomplish everything they have in mind. This is why they may not finish what they start and move from one thing to another. They may be moody and impatient. They are often artists or entertainers or hold two jobs at once. They have great vocals and and are great conversationalists. They are an inspiring force in any nurturing relationship. They are conscious of their appearance and may at times be self-involved.
When a deer visits you, it is time for you to tread with gentleness. This is not a time for being critical, mean-spirited or sarcastic. Use less force and do not confront the enemy. Lead a life that is balanced and graceful.
Dog
People with dog medicine would be great for service-oriented jobs. He makes a loyal guardian who would naturally serve humanity. Such a person would prize loyalty and faithfulness as primary virtues in selecting his friends. If a dog appears to you, examine your loyalty towards yourself and to others.
If a dog appears in your life, pay attention to your immediate surrounding and let the dog guide you. The breed of dog has a function. Define the energy associated with it. The dog may also warn you of danger and impending threat from dark entities.
The dog helps to boost your spirit. It will be difficult to break such spirit. Call upon him to learn to love unconditionally.
Meeting a dog: Good luck.
A dog eating grass: Sign of rain.
A greyhound with a white spot on its forehead: Good fortune.
Being followed by a strange / black dog: Bad luck.
The spectral black dog: Death.
Howl for no reason: Spirits surround.
Howl three times: Death has occured.
Dolphin
The dolphin is the keeper of the breath of life. If a dolphin shows up in your life, ask yourself are you breathing enough fresh air? Are you holding on to tensions?
A person with dolphin medicine has the creative life force of sound. Learn to create inner sounds to manifest outwardly.
The dolphin will assist you to increase your level of compassion and respect for all living things. Learn to be in harmony with the environment, help the young or the sick.
Dove
Dove will help you to let go of your emotional baggage. It's time to forgive, release and move on. True healing comes when there is love.
The dove is a message of hope and faith, this is why the dove is depicted as carrying the olive branch in Noah and the Ark.
Dragonfly
The dragonfly is a means of communication from the elemental world of plant spirits, air, earth, fire and water. It brings message of wisdom, enlightenment and the essence of the winds of change. Spend time in or around water.
The dragonfly alerts you that nothing is the way it seems. Delve into your belief systems and eliminate those that are false and limiting. Break the illusions that impede your progress.
The dragonfly medicine is also in the use of colour for healing. People with dragonfly medicine may see or sense the colours of one's aura. They are able to help adjust one's colour rays so the person is able to heal by himself. Besides helping the change in the colour of aura, people with this medicine can also draw the colours of the universe, from the rainbow for example, to help those depleted of energy and colour. This is helpful during times of stress and trauma.
People with dragonfly medicine is able to work with crystals that actually have rainbows in them. It will help to have a colourful home when one has done a lot of healing for others.
Duck
Sometimes, the intellect stifles intuition. A water bird, the duck is the carrier of intuitive messages.
The duck will help you deal powerfully with your emotions. It will teach you how to handle your emotions through life in different situations with grace and ease.
Eagle
The eagle carries prayers directly to our Creator. He rises above chaos to the Creator and returns with a vision for the people. The feathers can be used in powerful healing ceremonies and cleansing of aura. The eagle can help you when you need to call for rain.
The eagle reminds us to communicate with the Great Spirit. When you sight an eagle, it means you are close to the Creator and it is time you are able to be more in tune with yourself and follow the path that pleases you in life. Dare to become much more than you dreamed possible.
Expect to be renewed in mind, body and spirit. Your meditations become more profound and prophetic. The eagle helps you recognise the whole pattern of life with its bright and dark sides. Learn to regard positive and negative experiences as serving a higher purpose.
When the eagle appears into your life, it may also be that you have been so lost in a forest that you need its gift of vision and clarity. You can also use this gift to help others get through dark and troubling times. A reminder that the eagle possesses a sharp beak. Mind you words so that they won't unintentionally harm someone.
With great gift comes great responsibility. The eagle will guide you through the sacred responsibility of sharing your prophetic insights with others and how to become an effective spiritual teacher. Do not withdraw from your family and community even though, just like the eagle, you thrive best in quiet isolation.
People with eagle medicine would show spiritual overtones in their works of art. They may not, however, be aware of the talent they possess. It is important to have a willing heart to convey the realms of ethereal beauty and mysticism through music, jewelry craft, paintings and architectural designs. It is the spirituality of the physical world that would help reach for a true sense of beauty, peace and inner illumination.
