“He’s Still Here!”

I’ve been researching spirit/power/guide animals. What I’ve discovered gave me a powerful lucid dream last night about Deaken, my serval son, who was 17 and a quarter when he passed away peacefully (with a little help from his friends) after a full lifetime. (If you’ve read my book SERVAL SON: SPOTS AND STRIPES FOREVER: You Are Responsible for All You Tame, you know the whole saga.)

 

By way of introduction, you may not know that I’ve been following the remarkable Deborah King unless you’ve been tagging along on my other blog WordWhisperer.net She has expanded (actually, reawakened) my curiosity about so many different things that I’m having revelations I probably would not otherwise have. King’s subject matter varies: time (the eternal now), the practice of lovingkindness, spirit guides, ascended masters, ancestral guides, sages past and present, chakras, meditation, healing (self and others), you name it. (Visit her website to see the cornucopia of subjects!) Talk about a Renaissance Woman — Deborah King has it going on, and has for 17+ years. Why I hadn’t run across her before about three months ago, I have no idea, as voracious a reader and seeker as I am.  But since discovering her, I have read her four books and put some of her suggestions into practice.

 

I spotted something on her site that sent me scrambling for more insight: spirit guides can be animals, not just humans (embodied and disembodied). I’ve been aware for a long time that most ancient indigenous peoples connected with animal spirits (many still do!) to learn from, but I didn’t realize that they actually received conscious guidance from them. I thought humans were learning to mimic other animals to make themselves better hunters and gatherers, not getting additional insights or wisdom from them. But it figures they would: living wild dolphins, crows, dogs, cats, and other creatures frequently inform and guide humans, if the humans are “with it” enough to pay attention. I’ve been guided more times than I can count by my pets here on the earth plane!

 

“Come here.”

 

“Get me that.”

 

“I need some TLC. ”

 

“Watch out! There’s something scary out in the back yard!”

 

“Don’t trust that person.”

 

You, too?  If you’re keenly aware of your animal companions, you certainly have been informed and guided by them, and by wild ones, too!

 

King’s recent piece about the eternal now really got me going. I consider every now extremely precious after reading it. It’s my superpower!  Yours, too!  But one of the takeaways from the piece is that what happened in the past has not passed. It remains a part of the eternal now. The love we’ve experienced, the traumas, the challenges, all happened in the now, and the residue from those events remain ever-present, which is one reason why it’s so hard to dismiss some of them so we can get on with our lives unencumbered by them.

 

Last night the fact that Deaken’s essence remains became so clear to me in a dream that I began to cry with surprise and delight.

 

In the dream, I was lying in bed with Deaken beside me — a commonplace occurrence when he was on the earth plane (we were always in touch with each other when we were together; we both loved it and his purr, chirps, and calls to me remain in my heart forever). In the dream, he was rubbing himself on me (as cats do, but when it’s a Doberman-sized cat, it covers a lot more territory!) and I was running my fingers through his fur and scratching him. He was purring like crazy.

 

 

 

 

 

For some reason, in the dream I decided to figure out how old he was, and I subtracted 2021 from 1979 and got 42 years. That astonished me, because the longest-lived serval on record only lived 23 years. I sat up, utterly stunned!  I realized I was stroking an ancient serval, but he didn’t look a day over five!

 

I immediately felt the need to tell someone this, so I got up from the bed and went into my living room, where I found Dad (who passed away in 1999, but there he was!) sitting on the couch.

 

I told him, “You are not going to believe this!”

 

And as soon as I said that, I thought, “In fact, I must have just imagined or dreamed being with Deaken again, and seeing you now, because this proclamation that Deke is 43 years old now is NUTS!”

 

So I said, “Hold that thought!” and I went back into the bedroom to confirm to myself that being with Deaken had indeed been a dream.

 

But HE WAS STILL THERE!

 

This revelation whipped me right out of the house and I found myself in a busy city with bustling people walking to and fro.  I stepped up a set or two of stairs and cornered the first lady whose attention I could attract and I started to tell her the story of what had just happened. But in the telling, I was so overcome that I started to cry with joy and thanksgiving. “HE’S STILL HERE!!  HE’S STILL HERE!!!” I shouted, bawling.  She nodded, looking pleased by my announcement.

 

I don’t mind confessing I’m crying right now as I share this with you.

 

I think Deaken (who visits me at least three times a year in the same way) is telling me, “Pay attention to what you’re reading about spirit/guide/power animals. We’re all here to help humans. We love you and want to help, but humans have to mature more if you’re going to survive for much longer as a species.”

 

Now I need to pay attention whenever he visits to see what he’s trying to get me to “see” other than “I’m still here and I love you!” — which is all I’ve thought up until now.  I’ve been so thrilled with his visits that I didn’t tie it to anything more.  I need to pay closer attention.  With those big ears and bright eyes, he hears and sees a lot more than I do.  He always has.

 

He may not be my spirit animal, or my power animal, but he’s definitely  my guide (and guardian angel), for sure!

 

One of my spirit animals is the wolf. Until I learn more (I’m reading three books on spirit and power animals right now), I can’t say for sure what the others are.

 

I’ve always been fascinated and attracted by otters, horses, ants, squirrels, wild cats and wild dogs, elephants, dolphins, whales, hawks, eagles, owls, roadrunners and kangaroos. (And sharks scare me, the only animal that does: was I a sea otter in another life?). We’ll see if any of them show up as spirit guides or power animals for me.  I know horses are spirit guides for me. I have dreams about them occasionally.

 

My so-called “imaginary friend/watcher/guardian angel” when I was a kid was a Pegasus-type black stallion (with a horn on its forehead!) who perched on the spire of a partially fallen tree on the way to Spanaway Lake. I also had an “imaginary” pet horse who I tied (surreptitiously) underneath my desk at school while I was there.

 

So yeah, horses are definitely among my spirit animals. So are cats, and perhaps deer and skunks.  I’m looking forward to discerning who’s helping me from the animal kingdom. I’ve always felt more kinship with animals than I have with most people.