Spirit Animals

Porcupine – Spirit Animal, Totem, Symbolism and Meaning

Although the grunt of the animals is reminiscent of pigs, however, the porcupines belong to the rodent family. They have up to 40 cm long spines, which are actually a kind of hair and can thus fend off attackers well.

Normally the nocturnal animals, which are particularly abundant in Tuscany, are very peaceful. Only in case of danger do your hair stand on end.

All those with the sting animal as a power animal at the side are asked by the power animal in a spiritual way, to go through life curious and also to enjoy every single day.

Anyone who has forgotten how to laugh when they get older urges the porcupine to rejoice over everyday things and to go through the day with some humility and gratitude.

Porcupine – Spirit Animal

The porcupine comes to tell you that now is not the time to take out your spikes. Spines are only used in immediate danger. There are situations in life where it is appropriate to defend yourself against the outside, but also situations where you do more damage with resistance than if you let things go their own way.

Now there is a situation for you in which you can use your serenity and look at what happens with confidence. Your spines have not disappeared because of this, but it can happen that, without intent, you and others damage them by using your spikes.

The porcupine is an animal that uses its spines only when it is in danger. It can tell if a situation is dangerous, or if it can even be of any use to help other animals reach their destination so that they can reach their own goals. That is a wise behavior.

Spines can prevent harm from being done. But if we extend the spines and go for defenses at every opportunity, then we cause damage that can be directed against ourselves. It would be like a swordsman would permanently swing his sword in the air.

Therefore, it is wise to have the ability, even if you have effective spines, to use them only when there is a real danger.

Trust your personality, your charisma. Do not try to shoot sparrows with cannons, you are quite capable of reacting when it gets really hot. The violence bows before the non-violence. Nonviolence prevails when confidence in one’s own life force and truthfulness meet.

Porcupine – Totem

The amiability of the porcupine results from its curious and playful nature. The porcupine can also awaken in childish curiosity and show you how to enjoy life.

A power animal is an animal spirit from the other world. Not the spirit of a particular animal of a race, but rather a kind of archetype. A power animal can accompany you for a lifetime or come to you as a helper to answer specific questions or to master certain situations.

If the porcupine comes to you, it will give you the gift of making your life easier again, rediscovering the confidence and innocence of childhood.

  • bring back joy and fun in your life and want to awaken your inner child again.
  • have lost the confidence in an important person and want to give it another chance.
  • want to be accepted by others as you are.
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  • “Innocence, trust, resilience”

The porcupine has the longest spines of all living mammals. But even if these spines are actually just converted hair, they can be quite sharp and cause inflammation.

The porcupine is at the same time a playful creature, innocent in its curiosity, but at the same time very defensive.

Maybe it can keep its innocence, because it knows exactly that it can defend itself in an emergency. Do you also dare to renounce seriousness and severity and to open your heart? Only then will your spirit stay alive.

If the porcupine appears on your head, it reminds you not to take life too seriously. Has anyone been so worried lately that you have lost all confidence and humor? Restore the courage to trust yourself and your fellow human beings.

Put down your humble attitude and proudly carry your spines, your corners and edges into the world.

Porcupine – Symbolism

The porcupine is a rodent that is native to both Asia and North America, as well as Africa, which is why it is also missing in the Arctic, the Antarctic and some parts of Europe. It prefers tropical to subtropical climate, which is why it requires not only grass savanna, but also semi-deserts and rainforests. Incidentally, the porcupine is a rodent related to the hedgehog and guinea pig.

Her most striking feature is her mostly black and white coat, with long spikes and bristles. Interestingly enough, the spines are actually only strongly developed hairs.

Even at first glance you can see many similarities to the native hedgehog, who also has a spiky dress and prefers a life near the ground. The facial expression is again very similar to that of a large guinea pig and that of a beaver.

As far as the housing of porcupines is concerned, it has been found that some porcupines dig their own dwellings and others inhabit unused structures of other animals or crevices.

In the mythology of the North American Indian tribe of the Haida, the porcupine is a spirit that is respected and honored. Even in the Australian Dreamtime Legend of the Great Flood, the porcupine also acts as a symbol of war when it bristles its bristles, but also as a metaphor for truce when its spines lie flat against the body.

An Indian tale from Kanda tells of a porcupine and a beaver helping each other cross a lake. While the beaver carries the porcupine on its back to the other shore, the porcupine knows a magic song that makes the lake freeze. In return, and as a thank-you, the porcupine was able to carry his friend the beaver from shore to shore on his back.

In Mongolia, the porcupine is considered a totem and ancestor to some indigenous tribes. Thus, the Dagur (indigenous tribe of Inner Mongolia) believe that the porcupine, along with the pheasant, the fox, the snake, the spider, and the weasel, is a shaman on transmigration.

For example, the porcupine in Mongolia is considered a spiritual guide and teacher who is not hunted and eaten out of respect.

It can be assumed that the porcupine combed similar to his name, like the guinea pig. The name of the porcupine is composed of “sting” and “pig”. The syllable “sting” was created with great certainty by the most conspicuous and unambiguous identification feature of the porcupines: the long bristles, which colloquially are also called spines.

The porcupine got the nickname of a pig quite obviously by its also very high and squeaky – sometimes even grunting – vocalizations, which resemble a pig.

In the heraldry, the porcupine is hard to find, but there are a few coats of arms (even in Europe) showing one or more porcupines. In France e.g. the black silhouette porcupine graces the blue-yellow coat of arms of the parish of Ableiges and in Italy the spiked bill finds itself in various old family coats of arms – like e.g. in the northern Italian-high nobility of the Miniscalchi.

Even on the coat of arms of the Canadian city Oromocto the silhouettes of two barbed animals are depicted, as well as a porcupine graces the coat of arms of the successful football club “Asante Kotoko” from Ghana (West Africa).

Porcupine – Meaning

The porcupine is peaceful and full of confidence in his world of experience. Within the animal energies of the root chakra, the porcupine acts as a playful force that can unfold by being fearless.

Because the ability to defend itself always carries with it. The spines are his survival tool. They resemble long horny hair, which are provided with very small barbs. These can easily penetrate any enemy.

However, it is difficult to remove them, so there is a high probability that the wound will be inflamed.

The porcupine offers itself as a helping power animal in social environments such as kindergartens and school care, where trust and non-violent self-defense wants to be learned.

From a general point of view, the dream symbol “porcupine” can bring a good acquaintance with awake life.

Such a dream can also contain a warning of a person who wants to reveal the dreamer of ridicule. One should beware of this person and not make him an enemy.

If a porcupine walks through the dream, this may indicate that the sleeper is initially opposed to new friends or projects. It would be wise to deal with the cause of this skeptical behavior.

Seeing several animals of a porcupine family in a dream is often seen as a sign of problems in business ventures.

According to the general interpretation of dreams, a dead porcupine symbolizes the end of a phase characterized by poverty and misery.

If the dreamer kills a porcupine himself in his dream, he wants to break away from oppressed feelings in the watch world, which have caused him an emotional distance from other people.

Anyone who pokes at the spines of a porcupine in their sleep should be more attentive to themselves and other people.