Power animals are animal spirits that we can choose to have with us, much like a spiritual guide. According to some Native American tribes, we are born with nine animals by our side, each representing a characteristic that we should develop. In a way, you can also see a connection with your chakras, your essential traits.

You can use the power animal depicted on each card for positions 1-9 in the "Witch Rune's Web" to gain more insights. There is a text for each power animal on every card.

If you want guidance specifically for power animals, you can lay out seven cards as follows:

The first power animal is placed beneath you, representing your driving force and foundation based on experiences from past lives.

The second power animal is within you, symbolizing your desires, affirmation, identity, and spiritual longing for further development.

The third power animal is above you, guiding you toward your spiritual goals. If you study chakras and energy flows, you can see that the first animal represents your physical aspect, the second animal is your emotional aspect, and the third animal is your mental aspect – three of the four layers of energy carried in your aura.

The fourth power animal is in the East, indicating your life's vision (read work role). The totem highlights the qualities you should develop further and use to strengthen your commitment to your expression.

The fifth power animal in the South indicates your emotions, experiences, and family. It's the totem that supports what you need to experience emotionally.

The sixth power animal in the West represents your security (read finances) and physical identity. This totem shows you how to create security.

The seventh power animal in the North represents your communication, identity, and personality. This totem reveals what aspects of your personality need strengthening and how you can create communication with others. It is also the power animal that guides you in physical well-being.

Then, you have two animals on each side of you, one to the left and one to the right. The left one reflects your background, what you bring from past lives, and your feminine energy. The right one shows your current actions, what you can create in the future, and your masculine energy.

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

According to the Native American Medicine Wheel, all (power) animals are equally important, and all living beings together form a wheel where each one is a cog. If you remove one cog, the wheel cannot turn; all beings provide power to each other, maybe not directly, but certainly indirectly. All power animals are necessary; together, we form the total energy. Then there is the macrocosm and microcosm; mammals have an energy wheel, humans have an energy wheel, trees have an energy wheel, fish have an energy wheel, and so on, all coming together in the big wheel.

I hope you find your power, understand all the parts within you, use the totems you carry, and borrow power from a totem when needed. What does the loan cost? You respect nature and life and let each species live in harmony. For example, suppose you want to learn to swim better and borrow power from a dolphin. In that case, you can give back by donating money to a dolphin fund or by telling someone about something important related to dolphins – not your own spiritual experience but a natural flow.

Medicine animals are also another term for totems or power animals. The more you learn about each animal, the greater your awareness of the whole, the forces, and the energies each totem carries. No animal is more potent than another; a beetle has its energy, and an eagle has its energy; they give to those needing medicine (lessons).

Medicine is the term used by Native Americans and several other cultures, meaning what we have as a remedy, a solution to stagnant energy flow. See each totem as medicine, the medicine that a wolf has, for example, you need at a specific moment; another time, you need the medicine of a hawk, and so on. When our medicine wheel lacks a cog, which happens occasionally, we can become sick after losing an ability, a trait, an energy. The more knowledge you have about your cogs, the better you can find them the day you need that energy.