Dogs are one of the most popular animals that humans have befriended, and many households consider their dog to be a vital member of the family. Some people have such a strong bond with dogs, they can often feel like animal spirit guides or spirit animals. What is a dog spirit animal here to show you? What lessons does it have to teach you?
The dog spirit animal guide can show up in your life to help comfort, heal and protect you in matters of the home, relationships, and to increase your joy and enthusiasm for life. They can help you connect with your most authentic self, and learn to feel love and acceptance by yourself and others.
Your dog spirit animal can show up in your life in synchronistic ways when you need comfort, protection, or upliftment. Paying attention to the unique ways that dogs show up in your life can uncover the more profound spiritual message that they are here to show you.
Dog Spirit Animal Keywords:
- Loyal
- Emotional
- Sensitive
- Introspective
- Adventurous
- Imaginative
- Social
- Strong emotional attachments
- Protective
- Emotionally reactive
- Helpful
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What Is a Spirit Animal?
With modern technology and our busy lives continually distracting us, we lose a sense of connectedness of nature all around us. Now more than ever, the spiritual energy of nature is contacting us to reconnect us to the wisdom of the natural world.
Animal spirits teach deep wisdom from the spiritual flow that governs the natural world, such as cycles, seasons, cause and effect, and more. The guidance from your spirit animal can help you move past challenges, life lessons, or offer comfort in periods of grief. They can be sent as an answer to your prayers, or a companion in time of grief and loneliness.
When you notice your spirit animal, power animal, or animal spirit guide showing up in synchronistic ways, it means you are ready to receive the messages they want to teach you. As you tune into this spiritual energy, certain messages will stand out and revelations will appear to you in dreams and visions.
The dog spirit animal is intricately connected to the lives of humans, as they have been living in harmony with humans for thousands of years. It is not an accident that dogs spiritually coexist with humans in such an intimate way. The spiritual loyalty, love, and protection that dogs offer to us is very special and something to admire.
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Dog Spirit Energy
The spiritual energy of the dog is sentimental, emotional, and deeply tied to matters of the home. This energy shows up by being a welcome companion that we invite into the home to cohabit our living space. We can intuitively feel this comfort, protection, and domestic harmony when a dog enters our lives.
Dogs are very emotional creatures, feeling love and excitement in one moment, then shame and insecurity in the next moment. They are very reactive to their environment, feeling confident or insecure, based on what is happening around them.
Many people have dogs as service animals to help with a wide range of disorders, and dogs are immensely helpful because they are so empathic and tuned in to the energy of others. This ability makes dogs loyal, protective, and intuitively aware of the pain and suffering happening around them.
While this is a strong trait in a companion, the dog itself can feel emotionally burdened by the imbalances of others around them. They can be victims of abuse, just like many dogs who find themselves in homes that do not give them the love and support that they need to thrive.
A loving, secure, and stable household is ideal for the spiritual energy of a dog. Often a dog spirit guide will enter your life to create this space in your domestic household. You can call on the dog spirit animal to create a nurturing, safe, and comfortable space in your home.
Dogs are referred to as man’s best friend because they are fiercely loyal. Dog spirit animals can appear in your life to help you through life lessons with your relationships, particularly your closest and most intimate partnerships. They teach the importance of community and the strength that comes from a shared bond and trust with the people in your social circle.
If you have wanted to start a family or put down roots, a dog spirit animal showing up in your life is a positive omen for success, harmony, and a happy household.
The dog’s spiritual energy can help you come back to your physical space after being stuck in dreams, imaginations, and cerebral thinking. They are very grounding and show you reality as it really is right now. They help you get into the present moment.
Because of their ability to live in the here and now, they bring very excited and jovial energy. This energy is not burdened by the past or the future, just like a child lives in the moment with high enthusiasm for the task at hand. They teach you to have fun and to find activities that raise your frequency.
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Dog Spirit Animal Personality and Characteristics
The personality traits of those that resonate with dog spirit energy are loyal, sensitive, empathic, enthusiastic, social, adventurous, imaginative, nurturing, and giving. They enjoy quality time spent with loved ones, entertaining their closest friends with tasty meals, and taking on projects that they have a passion for.
They like to feel creatively inspired, and they prefer that the work that they do be helpful to others. Volunteering or finding a career that puts them in a service role is best suited for those guided by dog spiritual energy.
A secure and stable household is essential for them, including the relationships that exist inside the home. They require a lot of affirmation to feel confident in themselves. But, if they are in a relationship or job that provides this, they are very confident, assertive, and “alpha” type.
The spiritual energy of a dog can be prone to energy ebbs and flows, feeling very energized one day and sluggish the next day. This is usually connected to their mental health, shifting between feeling optimistic or pessimistic, overwhelmed or underwhelmed, and adventurous or cautious.
Because of these shifting moods and emotions, the stability and security of the home are highly important. The home is the space where they can feel their authentic self, and is protected by the energy of a dog. Being able to be unapologetically happy or sad in the home is ideal for those influenced by the dog spirit energy.
A solid meditation practice can help those influenced by dog spirit energy to not be so reactive to the moment to moment changing emotions, and instead find a stable sense of self that is unhindered by the constantly changing mental landscape.
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Lessons That The Dog Spirit Animal Is Here To Show You
If a dog shows up to you in synchronistic ways or appears to you in a vision or dream, they are likely here to help you through a challenge or teach you a lesson you are ready to learn. The dog spirit animal shares the following lessons or messages:
1. Being Your Authentic Self At Home
For the dog spirit animal, the focus is primarily on domestic matters, and how comfortable you feel in your home. Particularly, this has to do with how your authentic self shines at home. The home should be where you release all the emotions from the day, take off the many hats you wear, and strip down to just you.
This includes the relationships that exist in the home and how comfortable you feel being yourself in these relationships. Do you feel safe and secure with your partner, or do you always feel like you have to be someone you’re not? Even if you live alone, are you setting up your space to let your true self radiate?
The dog spirit animal guides you to fostering your home life to be the foundation of letting your true inner self take root and begin to blossom. The home is a place where you should feel comfortable in your own skin. It should be a place where you can feel comfortable being introspective, creative, funny, loving, intimate, emotional, sensitive, and generally relaxed being YOU.
2. Energetic Protection
Dogs are fiercely territorial, which makes them great protectors from outside intruders. Dogs know what is their energy and what is everyone else’s energy, giving them the ability to understand energetic boundaries.
Dog spirit animals can enter your life when you need energetic protection, especially if you are an empath or highly sensitive. They can let you know when you are taking on other people’s problems and how to release them. They can also help you release unhealthy energetic attachments.
If you have a problem setting boundaries with others, call on the dog spirit animal for guidance, confidence, and a sense of protection from other people stealing your energy. You can meditate on the dog spirit animal and ask what tools can help you, particularly with certain crystals, essential oils, or spiritual rituals.
To bring the protection energy of your dog spirit animal into your domestic space, you can place a fu dog in your home. You can learn about the best placements and materials for your fu dog in this article here.
3. Becoming Less Emotionally Reactive
Dogs are well known for their spazzy behavior and inability to contain their excitement. They will jump, bark, run, chew, and destroy the things around them when their emotions take over. Training a dog early on is a necessary task that most dog owners take on to help their dog learn to control their reactive behavior with these intense emotions.
The dog spirit animal teaches you to do the same. Just like training a dog to be patient to wait for a treat, there are parts of us that need to learn to be patient to wait out the emotional outburst to subside before reacting to it.
Being overly emotionally reactive can be harmful because emotions are constantly changing, yet our actions are set in stone. The dog spirit animal teaches you to wait before you act on your feelings and to think more rationally about the consequences of your actions.
This can help you get more grounded and find a place of mental stability amongst a storm of distracting and harmful chatter in the mind. It can help you become more emotionally intelligent and handle confrontation maturely and confidently.
You can call on the dog spirit animal when you need help feeling emotionally in control, especially related to relationships and events changing suddenly. A wonderful spiritual activity for this is meditation, yoga, or anything that helps you develop focus, introspection, and determination.
4. Increase the Joy In Your Life
Dogs are wonderful to have around because they bring more joy, love, and amusement into your life. They love to play and get overjoyed every time they see you. The dog spirit animal has a similar energy and can help you bring in these energies into your life.
If you struggle with depression, anxiety, or a general feeling of being defeated or overwhelmed, the dog spirit animal can help you release these emotions. The dog spirit animal may have entered your life to help you find the activities and people that help raise your enthusiasm for life.
Those influenced by the dog spirit animal need to feel passionate, creative, and helpful in the work that they do. The dog spirit animal can help you find your passion and create a life where you look forward to every single day.
Dogs love to be active and to be out in nature, so if you are feeling in a slump, taking a hike or moving your body can help you release these built-up negative energies. Spending time with the ones you love in a social setting can help you reset as well. Watching an upbeat romantic comedy, making a good meal, and turning off social media can all help as well.
5. Don’t Let Your Past Hold You Back
We have all seen that dog that gets caught doing something they aren’t supposed to and show it with a guilty look on their face. Dog energy likes to ruminate on past mistakes, causing guilt and shame.
Dogs are also fiercely loyal and develop strong emotional attachments to people and places from their past. Because of this, it is very hard for those influenced by dog energy to let go of mistakes or break-ups from the past.
Getting hung up on memories and mistakes prevent you from moving your life forward in a healthy and confident way, so the dog spirit animal may here to work with you to finally unpack your past baggage. They teach you to finally accept what you are trying to ignore and deny, and help you uncover the steps to resolve your past traumas.
When the past drags you down you can be prone to depression, angst, guilt, and procrastination. The dog spirit animal can help you with self-reflection and to find the inner wisdom to see the bigger picture.
Even when it seems we have taken a wrong turn in life, the dog shows up to show you that you can always get back on the right path again. Sometimes a seemingly wrong turns is what gets us on the right path. Every past experience were lessons learned so that you can keep growing and evolving.
If you have a hard time forgetting something in your past, particularly about a breakup or friendship that ended, you can call on the dog spirit animal to help you see the bigger picture. This can help you come back to the present moment with deep inner wisdom that will light the path forward.
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Dog Animal Medicine Guide
| Tarot Card | Queen of Pentacles |
| Zodiac Ruler | Cancer |
| Dominant Element | Earth |
| Influencing Element | Water |
| Chakras | Root/1st, Third Eye/6th |
| Mantra | I Nurture |
| Crystals | Black Tourmaline, Ametrine, Muscovite |
| Essential Oils | Ginger, Cedarwood, Cardamom |
| Ideal Careers | Social worker, therapist, psychologist, energy healer, massage therapist, pediatric doctor, childcare worker, K-12 teacher, an elderly caretaker |
| Hobbies | Volunteering, social events, cooking, outdoor activities and adventures, traveling, romantic films and novels |
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Dog Spirit Animal Compatibility
Compatible With: Coyote, Bat, Spider
These animal spirits are moving at a similar vibration and pace and are on the same spiritual evolution path.
Not Compatible with: Hawk, Jaguar, Shark
These animal spirits are moving through opposite life lessons at a different vibration and pace, and are on a different spiritual evolution path.
Shadow Animal: Eagle
This animal is moving through opposite life lessons but at the same vibration and pace, allowing it to get to deep subconscious shadow work.
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Summary
Honoring the spirit animals that appear in your life is a wonderful way to connect and be receptive to the messages being sent to you from the universe and your higher self. The dog sends you the message to connect to your authentic self, protect your energetic and domestic space, and live joyfully in the present moment.
This is one interpretation of the dog spirit animal. Everyone received different signs and messages from the universe in their unique spiritual language. Sit still and listen to the messages that are being sent to you by the dog spirit animal.
Journaling and meditating on the intention to receive these messages are wonderful ways to begin discovering how the universe is communicating to you.
Dog Spirit Animal Keywords:
- Loyal
- Emotional
- Sensitive
- Introspective
- Adventurous
- Imaginative
- Social
- Strong emotional attachments
- Protective
- Emotionally reactive
- Helpful
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