It is my belief that each person on this earth is not only special but spiritual. Each person has a spiritual soul that is connected to God (Mother/Father Creator), Mother Earth, and all of creation on the earth. For you see, everything and everyone is related and connected. All of creation includes the humans, the animals, the earth, the environment, the plants, the trees, the mountains, the elements, the rocks, and so forth. Through your spiritual soul and heart, you can become a partner with your power animal guides and Mother Earth and assist in healing the earth and, more importantly, in healing yourself.
Every person has at least nine power animal totem guides that surround his or her body and spirit: east, south, west, north, upper, lower, within, right side, and left side. They walk beside you to protect, guide, teach, and communicate wisdom to you through your soul and heart. They are like guardian angels, from either the domestic or wild animal kingdoms, and include birds, fish, reptiles, and insects.
• Your east power animal guide assists you with your spiritual growth and leads you on your path to illumination.
• Your south power animal guide protects your pathway and assists you with physical healing.
• Your west power animal guide assists you with searching deep within through meditation to find inner answers and truth. It assists you with balancing your emotions and being true to yourself.
• Your north power animal guide teaches you wisdom and the importance of being silent, being balanced and sharp mentally, and knowing when to speak and when to listen.
• Your upper power animal guide gives you access to the upper dimensions and realms of the upper world and assists with connecting you to your guides, angels, and Mother/Father Creator.
• Your lower power animal guide connects you directly with Mother Earth and the other inner and lower world dimensions and realms. This totem keeps you grounded to Mother Earth.
• Your within power animal guide is usually your guardian power animal guide from birth. It guides you to find your true spiritual pathway, to find joy and truth in your life. It assists you with developing your intuitive abilities.
• Your right power animal guide is your male side and is your protector, your warrior spirit. He assists you with balancing your male energy.
• Your left power animal guide is your female side and is your nurturer. She assists you with balancing your female energy.

Feel free to contact Franki Storlie for your individual animal totem reading. She can be reached at frankistorlie@yahoo.com.

This article is from Franki's book titled Animal Totem Guides: Messages for the World. This book can be ordered on line at Amazon or Barnes and Nobles.

Author's Bio: 

Franki has been studying, practicing, and teaching spiritual classes and working individually with people for the past twenty years. Her background includes Native American ancestry. She has worked with and received training from other Native American shamans on various spiritual teachings. Franki specializes in practices of the sacred medicine wheel (not just Native American practices, but a broader span of teachings). She partners with nature to create safe and sacred space so that people can learn to meditate, connect to their inner self, connect to their power animal totem guides, and find balance in a very busy and chaotic world.
Franki’s specialty is teaching and sharing with others the methods of shamanic journeying to help everyone to come in close communication and oneness with their soul. She provides personal readings for self-healing and connecting and communicating with each person’s power animals, spirit guides, and nature. She shares how to start and continue a daily spiritual practice so that each person is healed and balanced physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally (body-mind-spirit balancing). She is a drummer and uses drumming in all her sessions and workshops.
Franki also offers chakra alignment and balancing, soul retrievals, emotional healing and releases, energy healings, crystal healings, native drumming healings, house and land blessings/clearings, and spiritual blessing ceremonies for the deceased.