Crow Spirit Animal
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The crow is a spirit animal associated with life mysteries and magic. The crow provide insight and means of supporting intentions. Makes you aware of deceiving appearances. If chosen you as your spirit or totem animal, it supports you in developing the power of sight, transformation, and connection with life’s magic.
Many Western cultures consider crows to be a bad omen. They are thought to be the keepers of laws and symbols of the dark and "the unknown."
Crow Symbolism
Throughout history, the crow has been associated with both positive and negative symbolic meanings. The most common are:
- Life magic; mystery of creation
- Destiny, personal transformation, alchemy
- Intelligence
- Higher perspective
- Being fearless, audacious
- Flexibility, adaptability
- Trickster, manipulative, mischevious
Seeing a solitary crow was a warning of bad fortune or bad omen, death, and dark witchcraft. The crow also carries the power of prophetic insight and symbolizes the void or core of creation.
The Crow, Spirit Animal Symbolic of raw Magick
Commonly associated with magick and the power to manipulate physical appearances. Ted Andrews book “Animal Speak” mentions that we can find crows all around the globe as a reminder that magick is everywhere.
Fascinating Spirit animals, they carry the energy of life mysteries and the power for deep inner transformation. Seen in many traditions as the spirit animal of choice for those who use magick and have the power to manipulate the law of our physical universe. The crow used to be the animal of choice of Witches who also see themselves for who they are, shamans who walk between the worlds and shape-shifts.
Crows are usually black with tints of blue depending on the light shining on them symbolic of the onset of creation, of the void, or what has not yet taken form.
The crow will guide will help develop your ability to perceive subtle shifts in energy within yourself and your environment with the ability to go beyond the illusions, especially duality of right and wrong, inner and outer.
Crow Totem and Power of Insight
They have the ability to give you a better vision of or perspective of their surroundings, allowing you to be able to see things from a higher perspective, always alert and watchful.
The Crow Spirit Animal, a Guide about Fearlessness and Determination
If the crow chose you as your power animal, you are encouraged to develop your personal willpower and speak your truth more loudly. Just be mindful of the tendency to trick or be a bit manipulative.
The Crow In Your Dreams
While the crow appearing in a dream is sometimes considered a bad omen, a foreshadowing of sadness, this is only one of many meanings. A deeper interpretation of this meaning is that the crow is said to fly between the worlds of life and death and an appearance in your dreams may signify a message about your thoughts on life, death, and transformation.
Crows are also very intelligent and dreaming about a crow or crows may be a sign of your wisdom or intuition. Your subconscious may be telling you to trust your intuition.
The crow is also a symbol of transformation. What part of your life is or may be going through a transition? Maybe you are changing relationships or careers? Whatever it is, the crow is signaling that you are ready to make the change!
