Animism

What happens when we stop looking for answers and start paying attention? For a long time, I thought finding an animal or plant ally was something I was supposed to figure out. I would look for signs. I would wonder, “What is my animal?” “What does this animal mean?” “Is this the one I’m supposed to be working with?” Honestly, it was difficult at first. I was looking so hard for an answer that I was not really listening. Then something shifted. I began noticing the animals th

There was a moment in my life when two worlds I had kept separate suddenly came together. Science told me that I am made of the same elements that were forged in stars. Spirit told me that I am connected to something greater than myself. For years, I thought those ideas belonged in separate rooms. Then I began spending extended periods of time alone in nature through my vision quest work.

The Fall Equinox marks a moment of balance—day and night standing equal before the slow descent into the darker months. It is a time of harvest, reflection, and preparing to tend the inner fires that will carry us through the winter.

Nature, in its quiet wisdom, reminds us of what we’ve forgotten: clarity doesn’t come from control or busyness—it comes from stillness and connection.

Animism teaches that everything in the natural world has a spirit—stones, rivers, trees, animals, even the winds that kiss our skin. It’s more than a belief system—it’s a relationship.

A profound realization that everything possesses a spirit and that all is intricately connected. This my friends is called Animism.