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Read about Guardian Animal
About this reading: The idea of a guardian animal (power animal) holds that each person has an animal watching over them and lending them strength. Reverence for animals and spirits appears in traditions around the world, but the phrase "power animal" itself is fairly recent: it was popularized by the anthropologist Michael Harner in a 1980 book, and it isn't a direct inheritance of any one people's ancient tradition.
This page's reading is a just-for-fun diagnosis that picks one of 12 animals — Wolf, Owl, Black Cat, Crow, Fox, Deer, Bear, Hare, Snake, Falcon, Cat and Bat — from your birth date, using this site's own assignment. It isn't a personality test, and it has nothing to do with the zodiac animals or with any commercial animal-fortune system. Your birth time and gender aren't used.
Lore column: Beasts That Became Messengers of the Gods: Animals That Guard, Animals That Possess
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
In Japan, the idea of animals watching over people has long been expressed through shinshi or tsukawashime, divine messengers. Even the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki are said to contain scenes in which serpents and monkeys convey the will of the gods. Over time, particular animals became tied to particular deities: the fox of Inari, the dove of Hachiman, the deer of Kasuga, the monkey of Hiyoshi, the crow of Kumano, the ox of Tenjin, and more. Some were even kept and cared for within shrine grounds.
One story tells of a man exiled for killing a white fox near the sacred precincts of Ise, and harming a messenger was seen as an affront to the deity itself. In some cases, as with the fox, an animal that began as a messenger came to be worshiped as the very form of the deity. Yet in some tales the same foxes and dogs were also feared as beings that could possess people. The guardian beast and the cursing beast often wore the same face.
As we see it here, belief in divine messengers mirrors the two feelings people have always held toward animals: awe and affection. This is our own conjecture, but the beasts met in mountains and villages came from a world beyond human reach; as allies they were reassuring, as enemies they were terrifying. When a guardian-animal reading names your creature and you tense up just a little, perhaps it is because some part of you knows that whatever watches over you is also watching you.
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