Spirit animals

Sixty animals in five elements — the companions to the tarot, browsable here before they are drawable anywhere.

See also: Star signs · Blaze

All Earth Water Air Fire Spirit

(01)BadgerHolding ground you have already dug, and refusing to be moved off it.Open +(02)FoxGetting there by the route nobody is watching.Open +(03)HareSpeed as a form of courage, and the readiness to stand and box when running stops working.Open +(04)HedgehogA defence that costs nothing to maintain and asks nothing of anyone.Open +(05)Red SquirrelPutting away more than you need, against a winter you cannot yet see.Open +(06)Roe DeerAlertness so complete it reads as calm.Open +(07)Pine MartenRarity that survived by staying out of sight.Open +(08)Wood MouseSmall, overlooked, and still here after everything larger has gone.Open +(09)Wild BoarTurning the ground over, whatever comes up with it.Open +(10)MoleWorking blind, and getting it right by touch.Open +(11)StoatNerve out of all proportion to size.Open +(12)TortoiseCarrying your shelter, so that arriving and being at home are the same act.Open +(13)SalmonGoing home upstream, against everything, because you know the way.Open +(14)OtterCompetence that looks like play, because it is.Open +(15)BeaverChanging the landscape rather than adapting to it.Open +(16)SwanComposure above the surface, and hard work entirely out of sight.Open +(17)DuckAt home in three elements and beholden to none of them.Open +(18)FrogA life lived in two entirely different bodies.Open +(19)Water VoleA quiet life on a bank, and the loss of it when the bank goes.Open +(20)KingfisherWaiting a long time in order to move once.Open +(21)DragonflyYears in the dark water for one summer in the light.Open +(22)HeronStanding in cold water for as long as it takes.Open +(23)SealBelonging to two worlds and being clumsy in one of them.Open +(24)EelA journey so long nobody watched the whole of it.Open +(25)Barn OwlSeeing what is there in light that should not permit seeing.Open +(26)Eagle OwlAuthority that does not have to be asserted.Open +(27)CrowThe clean end of something, and the intelligence to see it early.Open +(28)MagpieTaking the bright thing because it is bright.Open +(29)SwallowComing back, on time, from an impossible distance.Open +(30)CraneWeighing something while standing on one leg.Open +(31)GooseBeing called, and going, with others going the same way.Open +(32)DovePeace as something actively made, not merely wished for.Open +(33)RobinSmall, tame, and far more territorial than it looks.Open +(34)BatNavigating by the sound your own question makes coming back.Open +(35)KestrelHolding absolutely still in moving air, in order to see one small thing.Open +(36)WrenThe smallest voice, and the loudest for its size in the wood.Open +(37)CockerelAnnouncing the day before there is any evidence of it.Open +(38)HorsePower that consents to be directed.Open +(39)Highland BullStanding still in weather that moves everything else.Open +(40)RamMeeting the obstacle head-first, on purpose.Open +(41)GoatClimbing where there is no path, and eating what nothing else will.Open +(42)DonkeyCarrying it, further than anyone expected, without complaint or speed.Open +(43)CatDomesticated on its own terms, and only up to a point.Open +(44)BeeSweetness made by labour, and none of it kept by the maker.Open +(45)SalamanderWalking out of the fire, being the reason the fire went out.Open +(46)AdderLeaving the whole skin behind, including the part that covered your eyes.Open +(47)LizardDropping the part that was caught, and growing it back.Open +(48)CicadaYears underground, and then a noise you cannot ignore.Open +(49)ButterflyThe same creature, unrecognisable, with no memory of walking.Open +(50)MothDrawn to the light that will kill you, and unable to explain why.Open +(51)MayflyOne day, and no mouth to eat with.Open +(52)DogThe one who walks with you to the boundary, and knows the way back.Open +(53)RavenBringing the message, and being blamed for its content.Open +(54)StagWearing the year on your head, and dropping it every spring.Open +(55)WolfWhat we removed from the land and kept in the stories.Open +(56)SpiderMaking the structure out of your own body, and waiting in it.Open +(57)CuckooRaised by strangers, in a nest that was never yours.Open +(58)NightjarExisting only in the half hour when it is neither day nor night.Open +(59)Glow-wormMaking your own light, at the cost of being found.Open +(60)ToadUgly, patient, poisonous, and doing perfectly well.Open +