Spirit Animal - Gorilla

Gorilla photo from www.causticsodapodcast.com

Several years ago, my husband and I went to the zoo for the day simply to walk and enjoy the animals.  We were lucky to hear the zoo guide talk about the gorillas and how much personality each gorilla had.  The guide told a story about one female gorilla that climbed to the top of the tree posts and sat up there on the platform through the times she was fertile because she did not seem to want children after she had her first baby.  Apparently, this frustrated the big male because he could not climb up that particular tree post as he was too big.  This story has three points.  One, the gorilla did show a unique personality. Two, the female gorilla was illustrating that she had both logic and some ability to work out the future.  And, three, she was defying the convention that she bear young.  This female gorilla beautifully illustrates “gorilla medicine”.

If Gorilla resonates for you as your spirit animal or power animal, the following traits might be true for you:

• great intelligence and planning capabilities
• the ability to communicate on several levels
• a strong individuality with a sense of what is right and wrong for you and for others (self respect and respect for others)
• big strength and gentleness
• clear vision (clairvoyance) and keen hearing (clairaudience) that allows you to hear things that others do not hear (guides, animals, music)
• great loyalty first to family, and then to the immediate friends (tribe)
• strong caretaking talents for self and for others
• a sense of fairness

Gorillas have often been portrayed as large, brutish, and violent as in the movie, “King Kong” or in the movie, “Tarzan”.  While Gorilla always knows what it wants, it usually gets its way through cleverness and gentleness. 

Learn to use your Gorilla medicine to move your life in the direction that is right for you, and ignore what others tell you is in your best interests.

JUdy@angelsandancestors.com  See the September magazine online at www.angelsandancestors.com