Power animals are spiritual guides that we can choose to accompany us, similar to a spiritual guide. According to some Native American tribes, we are born with nine animals by our side, each representing a characteristic we should develop, connecting to your chakras and essential traits.

To gain deeper insights, you can use the power animal depicted on each card for positions 1-9 in the "Witch Rune's Web." Each card includes a text for each power animal. If you're seeking guidance specifically for power animals, lay out seven cards as follows:

1. The first power animal is placed beneath you, representing your driving force and foundation based on experiences from past lives.
2. The second power animal is within you, symbolizing your desires, affirmation, identity, and spiritual longing for further development.
3. The third power animal is above you, guiding you toward your spiritual goals. In studying chakras and energy flows, the first animal reflects your physical aspect, the second your emotional aspect, and the third your mental aspect—three of the four layers of energy carried in your aura.
4. The fourth power animal is in the East, indicating your life's vision (read work role). The totem highlights the qualities you should further develop and use to strengthen your commitment to your expression.
5. The fifth power animal in the South relates to your emotions, experiences, and family. This totem supports what you need to experience emotionally.
6. The sixth power animal in the West represents your security (read finances) and physical identity, showing how to create security.
7. The seventh power animal in the North represents your communication, identity, and personality, revealing which aspects need strengthening and how to foster communication with others, guiding your physical well-being.

Adjacent are two animals, one on each side. The left reflects your background, past life experiences, and feminine energy. The right shows current actions, future creations, and masculine energy.

These nine animals embody you, the gifts, and energies you need to develop. We all possess nine core totems that accompany us through life. By studying these animals and their characteristics, we can cultivate different facets of ourselves.

According to the Native American Medicine Wheel, all power animals are equally important, forming a wheel where each one is a cog. If a cog is removed, the wheel cannot turn; all beings indirectly empower each other. All power animals are necessary; together, we embody total energy within the macrocosm and microcosm, where mammals, humans, trees, fish, and more create a collective energy wheel.

Embrace your power, understand all the parts within you, use your totems, and borrow power as needed. What is the cost of borrowing? Respect nature and life, allowing each species to live harmoniously. For instance, if you seek dolphin power to enhance your swimming, you might give back by donating to a dolphin fund or sharing important information about dolphins—not your spiritual experience, but a natural flow.

Medicine animals, another term for totems or power animals, each offer unique lessons. The more you learn about each animal, the greater your understanding of the forces and energies they carry. No animal holds more power than another; each, from a beetle to an eagle, provides to those needing medicine or lessons.

In Native American and other cultures, "medicine" denotes solutions to stagnant energy flow. View each totem as medicine for specific moments; at times you need wolf medicine, other times hawk medicine. When our medicine wheel loses a cog, sickness or the loss of an ability or energy may follow. The more knowledge you have about your cogs, the better equipped you'll be to regain energy when needed.