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Awoooo wild ones, it's bernadette.
I am the creator and channel of da da da the
ark animal tarot and oracle deck, as well
as the publisher and creator of whatismyspiritanimal.com,
buildingbeautifulsouls.com and wisewitchesandwitchcraft.com.
So today we're talking about one of my favorite
favorite spirit, totem, and power animals
the dove.
Now i love talking about dove because it's
largely considered a pretty simple animal.
Doves mean divine peace.
They mean divine messages.
They're enduring symbols of family being close
together.
Marriages you know that's why they get released
and you know at marriages.
Please use something else other than doves,
they very rarely find their way home.
Um but it you know it really goes a lot further
than that.
So i'm gonna start at the top, which is a
just kind of an overview of what birds in
general mean.
Because when you're interpreting what the
meaning of your spirit, totem or power animal
it's really important to take a look at is
it a bird is it a mammal is it a fish is it
a crustacean?
What does that mean?
What does the color mean?
Um you know and then maybe take a look at
some of the facts about the animals.
So a lot goes into interpreting when these
animals show up for you and what that will
mean for your life.
So generally speaking birds represent the
air element and anything that is the air element
is about you know soaring to great heights.
Um catching a ride on the wind, getting the
wind beneath your wings.
You know kind of trite things like that.
But it's also about communication.
Because it's about the information that kind
of comes to us on the wind, on the wind, you
may not hear it as clearly because it's really
coming more into your psychic sense than it
is right in front of you in black and white.
So when people are uh seeing a lot of birds
or they are getting a lot of messages like
feathers, that's not getting that question
all the time.
What does it mean when i get i find a feather?
Um and again i will say take into consideration
what bird is that feather from?
A, a feather from a hawk is going to have
a different meaning than if you find a solid
white dove feather, a feather from an eagle,
a feather from an owl, a feather from a robin,
a tit mouse, sub a flamingo for goodness sake,
i mean it could be anything right.
So when we take a look at dove as a spirit
totem and power animal and we just take into
consideration the element which is air and
then the whiteness of the feathers it's really
it goes so deep into connecting yourself,
your conscious mind, your conscious human
mind with your higher self or the divine.
And that divine can be whatever you believe
it to be the great spirit, source, all that
is, the universe, god, goddesses.
It doesn't matter the point is is for you
when you when you see doves, when you see
birds, when you see the white feathers, or
really any feathers, it is a call for you
to just stop, take a deep breath, get in a
centered place almost a place of peace, and
and really try to hear what information is
being sent to you from the other side.
Sometimes this can mean mediumship.
Sometimes it can just be what's the extra
information i need about a job that i want?
What's really going on in this relationship?
Whether it's a romantic, platonic.
Um you know any kind of relationship.
So when you also want to take into consideration
the number of feathers that you get.
You know if you've got one feather again that's
the number one signifies one thing, another,
you know, it does really signify god number
one.
If you get two feathers you know kind of all
at the same time or even within the same day,
maybe within a couple of days but in a very
short period of time, then the number two
is all about harmony and balance and coming
together in a divine relationship.
Number three, that tends to be um you know
the the holy trinity, father, son, holy, ghost,
maiden, mother, crone.
Anything that can really be gotten in threes.
And especially if they're repeating numbers
those also tend to be angel numbers.
Eleven, eleven, thirty, three, three, three,
three, three, five, five, five, that kind
of thing.
So the color white uh when because we're talking
about dove feathers in particular at this
moment, that is always about the divine.
Not that other colors are not divine.
But there's just so many millennia of history
and symbolism and meaning associated with
the color white being attached to heaven.
Um to pure spirits inside.
You know your spirit is pure.
Um the color white is, is very much connected
to uh the symbol of purity.
And so it would be easy to wrap up this video
on just that.
Because really what else does dove mean?
But when you take a look at the subject of
peace, the subject of divine communication,
that is so much bigger and so much deeper.
Especially as regards dove because doves at
the end of the day are just a kind of pigeon.
And there are lots of different colors of
doves.
There are speckled doves, there are morning
doves, there are brown doves, there are this
dove.
And each kind of dove has its own meaning
but because they are associated with the pigeon
family, it, it is a lot about going home.
And so what does home mean for you?
Where is home for you?
Do you want to go home at this time?
And yes that can mean going to our home that
is not in this world which is why doves uh
in lots of different cultures are considered
kind of fairymen of your soul to the other
side.
And it's why a lot of people use doves when
in funeral sprays and that kind of thing.
But doves even though it is about going home,
remember that the element of air, is, is the
spirit of the east.
And the east is all about brand new beginnings.
So whether you're just going to your home
down the street.
Whether you're going home to the other side.
Whether you're trying to consider where to
live in this world.
What kind of house?
What this, what that.
Whatever home means to you, when dove shows
up as a spirit, totem or power animal, it's
really time to consider that um really what
is home?
And how can you get there?
Do you feel like you're not at home in your
job?
In your relationships?
In your inside of yourself?
Do you feel comfortable with yourself?
Are you at peace with yourself?
If you are not, be honest because dove again
is the um the element of air.
And the cardinal direction of that is the
east.
And that's about new beginnings.
So dove will show up in your life when you
you really want to start over again, you really
want to wipe the slate clean.
Have some very pure energy come through you
get all the ickyness out and start with a
brand new clean fresh beautiful white slate.
That you can count on the divine, again god
source all that is whatever you call it goddess,
to come in and work with you for that.
And you can also call on dove to do that with
you right.
So the other thing that dove um can teach
us is about compassion.
And so even before we get to even more about
peace, it really can there be too much compassion
in this world?
I'm filming this dove spirit animal meaning
video during the time of the pandemic, during
the time of a huge uprising across the world,
speaking out against racism and intolerance.
And you know people demanding better answers
and better solutions and being willing to
step up to the plate and have their voices
heard and and be counted.
So at first it might look like there's just
total chaos and there's a lot of negativity
going, but again new beginnings.
So when i think of dove as a symbol an animal
symbol during this time yes things are very
rocky right now, that is true.
But that will come to an end and then we'll
all be able to start fresh and new again.
And hopefully in a much better place.
So when we talk about you know maybe a little
bit of history.
Um of doves in the in the sorry guys i have
to read this i wish i had every ounce of animal
information in my noggin but i don't sometimes
i have to look it up on my own site or in
my book.
But um one of the things i love to talk about
with doves white doves in particular is to
the ancient greeks to zeus and aphrodite the
god of sky right zeus and the goddess of love
and passion, that combination is really kind
of where we think that the whole subject of
monogamy, and family unity, and you know want
your promised to somebody you're promised
forever because you've been promised you know
in the divine white light of god.
And that has been really an enduring thing.
Now what's interesting about that i think
is you know doves no matter what color they
are they're just the most petite, fragile
little birds.
But if you've never seen birds get into a
squawk, oh my gosh, they're just as fierce
as anything else on this planet.
And, and so i always see doves, especially
when i'm doing a reading like if i'm doing
a spirit animal reading and i keep seeing
doves, doves, doves but then on the other
side of that, like i'll see this dove standing
kind of straight and tall and powerful, you
know their neck out stretched, their breasts
forward they're you know they're kind of arched
like this almost like an eagle or a hawk.
But then i i sense that maybe the person that
i'm reading for is maybe not as strong in
their life as they want to be at that moment,
i explain to them that it's very much like
that saying you know, speak your truth even
if your voice shakes.
That just because they might at this moment
feel not powerful or not strong it's time
to show themselves some compassion and it's
time to come to peace with what they truly
want to accomplish.
And then just put their head down and move
toward it.
Because self love you know, i mean, i, i think
we all know that's the most important love
but self-care and self-worth and self-value.
Those are very powerful components ideas feelings
emotions ways of thinking that can help us
get through our life more divinely.
With more peace i mean you know listen anything
that's worth having is worth fighting for
right we know that we get told that from the
time we're a kid.
But what if we were programmed differently?
What if we were programmed to say you know
when something's really right, for you when
a person is really right for you, a job is
really right for you, a career path um your
own opinion of yourself, your, you know anything
like that what if we were trained or taught
that that's when that sense of peace will
come over us is when it's right.
That it only feels like this if it's wrong
or there are things that need to be set to
rights.
So, in um in the kind of in the without going
through you know like every culture in the
world and you know telling you what dove meant
to them the other thing that we have to remember
is that doves have a very particular sound.
Morning doves have they're named morning doves
because they've got that mournful kind of
cry about them that you hear early in the
morning in the midst of the morning it's a
very melancholy kind of sound.
Um but every animal that has a sound is always
a call for us to take a look at our throat
chakra and use that animal's medicine in that
area.
So when we when we think of doves vocalizing,
it's called a coup.
So it's like cooing.
It's kind of like [bird sound].
I'm working on my animal sounds.
And so um it's, what do you need to coup?
Are you speaking from a place that's not peaceful?
Are you speaking with a warrior spirit?
And that's okay if it's called for.
But what is your ultimate goal?
You know when we step into the fray, when
we you know bow up and we're like okay listen,
this is not going to fly, this is not going
to happen and here's why.
Or however you're having a conversation about
anything.
It's, what is your end goal?
What is the result that you want to happen?
What's the intention?
Are you fussing just to be fussing?
Are you trying to dominate and why?
Are you trying to to create a peaceful resolution?
What is it that you're trying to contribute
to the conversation?
So check your throat chakra.
And in particular again with all doves and
then with white doves where do you want to
roost?
Where do you want to nest this communication?
How do you want to bring it home?
Ask for divine guidance from you know again
god, the other side, the universe, all that
is, source whatever.
And also ask the animals to in particular
dove to guide you in what you're saying.
What you're bringing forward.
And, and no matter how upset you are, even
if you are right as rain.
I really would encourage you that dove can
help you bring the most peaceful resolution
to all communication.
Now let's talk about peace for a minute.
You know i, i've done over 40, 000 readings
y'all.
And one of the number one things that people
tell me when i ask them okay here or i say
like here's what's going on, here's what i
see being the outcome, and, and once the messages
are delivered i'll ask them what do you want
to happen?
If you knew how many times people said i just
want peace.
Okay, what does that mean for you?
Is it peace in the family?
Peace means you ultimately have to walk away
from a person, a job, or whatever, a home.
You might have to walk away from old habits
of yours.
Old outmoded ways of thinking and doing that
are no longer serving your purpose and are
fueling the fusses and the the feelings of
jitteriness.
Because you know here's another thing about
birds, yes, i mean look at that sweet so of
course there's a dove in the ark obviously.
Okay um i'm trying to get it where the light
isn't.
Yeah okay so there you are what a sweet beautiful
animal.
And yes they will fight for the things they
want to fight for, territory, and food, and
to protect their babies.
But really you know other than the big prey
animal or the you know the the raptors, um
and even they are skittish to a point.
I mean birds react like that.
They they are ready to fly at the drop of
a hat.
They'll jerk their head around i mean they're
they're not like other animals, they're ready
to move when they want to move.
Even if they haven't gathered all the facts
right.
Um they're they're they're they're not really
the kind of critters that are just gonna march
into the fray like oh say a lion, or a whale,
or you know some other kind of animal.
They're, they're pretty skittish.
So that said are you having a knee-jerk reaction?
Do you need more time to gather your facts?
Are you taking flight too quickly?
Are you too skittish?
Are you too afraid that you're not hearing
what will ultimately bring you to a place
of peace?
Now if you're working with dove as a spirit
anima.
L and um and if you don't know the difference
between spirit, totem and power animals, there's
a link to that video below.
Technically there is no difference.
But the animal kingdom downloaded into me
a way of helping you all wild ones maybe better
organize what a spirit animal is, a totem
animal is, a power animal is, just for the
virtue of working with their energies.
Because it can get really confusing this culture
calls this you know a spirit animal this culture
calls it a totem animal this culture calls
it a power animal.
And you're like what what does that even mean?
What's the difference?
In theory there's no difference but here's
just very briefly how they're separated which
is what the animal kingdom asked me to share
with you all.
So the spirit animal is the animal that comes
to you in your time of need.
So let's say there's a lot of chaos going
on in your life and let's say all of a sudden
you just start seeing doves everywhere.
Pictures of them, songs that have them in
them, um you're seeing them on a walk to work,
on a walk around the park, on a walk around
anything.
All of a sudden some friend or family member
or whatever tells you a random dove story
and it just keeps coming and coming and coming.
That, that's the animal kingdom's way of tapping
on your window, your door and saying hello
it's time for you to pay attention to dove
medicine and energy.
And again you're going to want to pay attention
to the color.
Now mostly in this video we're talking about
white doves.
Um because they tend to be the, the, the doves
that show up the most people.
I do hear from people uh especially in the
south when they've lost a loved one they're
more attuned to the morning dove cry than
ever.
Um bu,t but mostly you know really it's about
white doves.
And so when, you know or you might go into
a meditation you might set the intention.
Let's say that let's say that you say i just
don't know if this love relationship is going
to work out.
And you ask dove to show up or you ask for
the spirit animals to send you the animal
that's going to give you more clarity on that
situation and you go into a meditation.
And dove shows up.
How many doves were there?
What colors were they?
Were they healthy looking?
Did they peck at you?
Did they nestle on your lap?
Did they perch on your shoulder?
Did they give you a little peck a kiss on
the cheek?
Y'all, uh spirit animals have done the most
amazing things.
When i've taught classes and people have come
out of meditations like am i losing my mind?
Did i really just have that happen in a meditation?
Like literal bear hugs where they come out
going i know exactly what a bear's paws and
their claws feel like.
Or they've they've pet uh you know had a lion
come up to them or even an elephant.
Um pick an animal pick an insect, pick a reptile,
pick a whatever, amphibian they've all shown
up.
So when dove shows up it's, it's going to
be in direct relation to answer the question
that you asked.
So, for instance let's say that dove shows
up when you're like is this love relationship
really gonna make it?
And let's say it is a white dove.
But let's say that the white dove is maybe
not so steady on its feet.
Or maybe it looks a little injured.
That might be a call that the most peace,
the most peaceful resolution to this would
be to just end it before anybody gets sicker
or anybody gets more hurt or anything more
negative happens.
Let's say that you know the dove flies in
and, i've actually had this happen before,
um a dove a couple of doves flew in and you
know that scene in cinderella disney's cinderella
where they fly around with the wedding ribbon
and whatnot and then cinderella twirls around
and you know all of a sudden she's this beautiful
bride and this flowing very dove-like white
dress.
I've had that happen before.
And once when it happened, um the girl called
me back the next day and she said you are
not gonna believe this.
And i'm like try me.
Unbeknownst to her.
Truly unbeknownst to her.
The fella she had been dating they were supposed
to go out that evening and it was just supposed
to be another date whatever he got in a ring
he'd plan this big elaborate thing at a restaurant
and he popped the question to her um that
night after class.
So it was well she had a reading and then
she came in for class and then she called
me the next day it was just this whole like
series of events.
It was nuts.
But anyway it was super romantic.
So then if you're gonna work with dove as
your totem animal.
Well you know i always encourage people that
when you're doing a reflection of self, when
you're trying to get to know.
You please start with your horoscope meaning
start with your zodiac sign.
Start with your zodiac sign in the western
zodiac, the chinese zodiac, the native american
zodiac, the celtic zodiac.
And find out what kind of your core foundation
is there.
But like the example, and that's where you
start.
But let's say that you just had a lifelong
love affair with a particular kind of animal.
For me it's bears right.
Later in my life it's bears and alpacas.
I don't know what it is about alpacas y'all
but i'm just like alpaca alpaca.
So, i, i count them as much as i'm a scorpio,
like a super scorpio and it's either the scorpion
or the snake in all of the zodiacs right,
very powerfully, very definitely got that
scorpio snake energy.
Um, i, i identify with a bear more than anything.
And i'm very bear-like.
And so i consider bear my totem.
And that can come from past lives.
That can come from just any kind of information
that's downloaded into you from the akashic
records.
You could have been a particular animal in
another life, you could have been a particular
animal in many lives.
I, i feel pretty confident i was probably
a bear in a couple of lifetimes.
I just understand them so well and i'm so
very much like them.
So when you want to work with your totem,
really what you're saying is i want to work
with those parts and components of that animal
that i identify with.
So let's say that you love doves.
What is it that you identify with?
Are you always the compassionate one in your
group?
Are you always able to bring peace to a situation?
Are you the one that can really help people
find their way home?
Um i suspect that you are.
And i suspect that as fragile and gentle and
kind and loving as you are, and as much divine
light as you have in your aura and you spread
throughout the world, you're no joke when
somebody needs to be protected.
And you're super in tune with your psychic
self.
Those, you know those messages again that
come to you psychically on the wind.
And chances are also that you are extremely,
extremely um proficient and not scared to
start new beginnings, start things fresh and
new, have things end, begin again and lots
of people let themselves be held back because
they're terrified to start something new.
Now, if you want to work with dove as a power
animal, then that's when you invoke that animal's
energy and medicine from inside of yourself.
And so really what would you invoke from dove,
how could dove be powerful?
Well let's say that you're choosing a past
a path of peace and compassion.
If you're like me that can be really hard.
That, can sometimes that can be really hard.
Because you know scorpio, mars energy, every
dang where i look.
And bear energy, the ultimate mother gaia
protector right.
It's very easy for me to go really and then
just be like okay [angry noise].
So in situations if you're innately like that
or even if you are innately compassionate
and kind and gentle, some situations can really
just rile you up.
And so you can call on dove to bring you that
peace, that sense of calm, that sense of centeredness.
That ability to listen, be quiet and listen
to what's really being said to you.
What really is, is coming from from above?
What is, what what is needed here?
How can i best serve this situation, myself,
the ultimate purpose?
And dove is a great help mate for that.
Diplomacy.
That's another thing that dove can bring to
you.
You know really at their core doves are lovers
not fighters.
And even though they can get a little you
know territorial and they certainly want to
protect their young, at the end of the day
they're just animals that just want to live
a peaceful existence.
When you when you are trying to figure out
if a relationship of some kind is right for
you, dove is a great help mate for that because
they are really the animal symbol for enduring
love and fidelity.
And so when you you know let's say that you're
the scaredy cat.
Let's say that your partner is like yeah i'm
ready to pledge my life to you.
And you're like [scared noisees] but you want
to but you're not sure what's got you scared.
Call on dove is your power animal and that
can be really helpful in creating that sense
of peace and balance and taking the fear away
and helping you to understand that this very
well may be your soulmate.
This may be your divinely inspired relationship
and that you should go home to this person.
That your home is with this person.
And so again dove as a power animal can really
help that.
So just really um quickly when you think about
dove being connected to the spirit of the
east and new beginnings, that's also a call
to let go of the past.
Lordy, y'all.
That can be hard.
Believe me, i know.
It can be hard.
But you can't fully step into a new beginning,
if you're like quasimodo and you're lugging
behind all that baggage right.
It'll tie you down.
You'll never ever be able to take flight.
So when working with dove as a power animal,
it's super important to ask doove to show
you how to shake it off.
You know molt those feathers.
Get rid of those things that no longer serve
you.
Grow the new feathers and then take off to
wherever you want to go.
Now when we think of doves and dreams, that
is again more of the same.
Like if you did a meditation and dove came
to you.
How many doves were there?
What did they sound like?
What color were they like?
Um universally they're regarded as a symbol
of devotion, feng shui practitioners used
dove images to flow the chi or peace for longevity
for loyalty.
So pay special attention if doves are coming
into your dreams because that means that they're
really trying to get to you um on the other
side.
But maybe you haven't been paying attention
to them in your conscious waking moments.
So, that's really all that can be said at
the moment about doves.
And dove is a spirit, totem and power animal.
Dove you know um meanings and symbolism.
I hope this has been helpful.
I hope that when you're considering dove,
working with that energy in medicine, you
do take into consideration that peace is not
always easy.
Finding our way home is not always easy.
And and really believing and being able to
hear and believe those messages that come
to us from the other side, that's not always
easy.
But i hope this has been helpful.
Um remember if you don't have your Ark animal
tarot and oracle deck yet i i just i encourage
you so much to get it.
It's a hundred animals that you have to work
with, 100 different animals.
And there is a 372 page book, like a whole
book all into itself it's got the tarot meanings
of the animal.
It's got the spirit, totem and power animal
meanings.
The meanings about the cardinal directions,
the elements, the colors, all of that really
in-depth information that you need to really
start working with the animal allies.
And you don't have to be a tarot person, actually
a lot of people that i know just use it for
shamanic purposes, for shamanic journeying,
helping their clients with shamanic healing
by way of spirit, totem and power animals
that nature of thing.
And there's a link below.
You can get it from whatismyspiritanimal.com.
And again i hope this has been helpful.
Thank you so much for tuning in and as always
what's the most important thing?
To stay wild!
Take care everybody.
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