The spirit animal is a guide. It appears different for any given person and interacts with each person in a different way. My task this week was to represent it.
So how to go about doing that? The spirit animal is thought by some to be a piece of your soul. A person’s soul can also be represented by their shadow. Someone without a shadow could be considered souless. So I’ve represented my spirit animal through my shadow.
I chose a spider… or a monkey… or a spider-monkey. Really, a trickster animal. Kind of like Anansi, who can be a man, a spider or a monkey. Sometimes all 3.