We are proud. We are a proud but gentle species. It is our intent to live in peace and multiply. We are co-operative with each other for the most part although, like any species we have misunderstandings and jealousies, but we are more peaceful than conflictive. While we strive to live and grow and learn, we also understand that there are predators who take their nourishment from our bodies. This is the circle of life.
We enjoy our bodies fully and love to jump and run and play. You are sensitive to the needs of others, as well as your safety. You are careful and cautious and that is fine as long as you are not phobic or refuse new opportunities. Always pay attention to the deer totem animal spirit within you. Male deer have antlers, which are the fastest growing animal tissues. They shed these each year only to grow new ones.
However, stags cry when they lose their antlers, according to a myth. This annual shedding is actually symbolic of growth, rebirth, and transformation. Stag symbolism means the same: it means that you should be prepared for a new phase and not cry over the past.
Native Americans believed that the antlers on the male deer were actually antennae that connected the deer to inter-dimensional beings. That is how the deer picked up interdimensional communication and messages from the spirit world. Meditate on the deer and seek its wise counsel. Ask it to guide and protect you from harm. The key words connected with the deer power animal are grace, kindness, listening to intuition, gentleness, and innocence. Deer is such a soft, kind, and graceful animal that brings forth this gentleness for you.
Deer is a woodland creature, very connected to the earth and roots of wisdom. The reason a deer has come to you as your power animal means that you should be on your guard and be alert to any situation that could be dangerous to you. If you see a mother deer with its doe, it is a message that family is important. The deer power animal is also signifying that you should act with gentleness and calm.
That is the best way to handle any situation. Deer totem may also strongly suggest that you spend time with an ailing grandparent. It may also ask you to make some changes; make sure those changes are of a lasting nature.
The deer power animal also asks you to get back to nature. Slow down and explore your surroundings as well as yourself. Because only when you connect with yourself can you truly form more meaningful relationships with others. Deer spiritual meaning is very deep and that is why a magical deer tattoo is just the thing you need if you have always felt a spiritual connection with a deer.
A deer symbol tells you that you will always have a spiritual guide in the form of a deer and that the deer will watch over you, provide you with food, warmth, and love. The spirit of a deer will always be with you. Therefore, many people opt for a deer tattoo over their hearts, usually a stag spirit animal with antlers. Just like the moon waxes and wanes, so do the antlers which shed to make way for new ones.
Native Indians often tattooed deer on the thigh of a tribe member to show he had been made a warrior and chief. Thus, a deer tattoo also represents a leader, a warrior, and a fighter.
At the same time, it asks you to get in touch with that gentle and soft side, asking you to solve all issues with love instead of hate. As can be seen, deer symbolism varies from culture to culture. But, it typically means gentleness, awareness of surroundings, unconditional love, and mindfulness.
A deer represents innocence, kindness, grace, and good luck. Seeing a deer is usually a good omen and means that your spirit guides are watching over you.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In many cultures, it is an old tradition for a man to bring deer meat as a sign of prosperity.
Deer Eastern Symbolism Chinese folk paper-cut of a plum-blossom deer is a symbol of officialdom and prosperity. Deer African symbolism African clans have special holy totemic animals, which are emblems of group unity, but these tribes often ate these animals as well. Deer are an important animal in Native American culture where they are sources of food, shelter, and clothing. Each tribe has their own rituals and beliefs, however for many tribes the deer symbolizes fertility and the cycle of life.
They are also viewed as the guardians of the forest. Furthermore, some tribes have legends about a Deer Woman, in which the deer is a temptress and a bit of a troublemaker. Native American cultures have a clan system that is organized around family groups, which are based on the maternal line. Clans serve as a system of community organization and a division of labor, as well as a way to keep gene pools healthy by preventing close relatives from marrying.
Every clan has a guardian animal that is associated with it, such as the bear , crow , fox , hummingbird , or other animal. A number of Native American tribes have deer clans.
For the Huichol, the deer is directly linked to two important plants in their culture: peyote and corn. The ancient Greeks associated Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the forest, and hunting, with deer. In Roman mythology, Artemis was the goddess Diana.
Above all, Artemis valued her freedom, so she begged her father, Zeus, to allow her to stay a maiden so she could run freely in the woods. In one myth, Artemis had a giant doe who was called the Cerynian Hind. As it happens, King Eurystheus wanted the Cerynian Hind for his own. So, he forced Hercules to try to catch it.
In a state of madness, Hercules had killed his own sons, and so to atone for his mistakes, he had to perform some herculean feats. Hercules knew the Cerynian Hind belonged to Artemis, so he had to perform the delicate action of catching the doe, presenting it to the king, and then getting it back to Artemis. Like the Native Americans, the Celts saw deer as intrinsically linked to the forest and its special guardians.
In addition, in some Celtic stories, deer were viewed as the cattle who belonged to fairies. Out of spite, the Druid turned her into a doe. He told her that if she could reach the Fianna Castle, which was the home of Celtic warriors, the Dark Druid would lose his power over her. So, Sadhbh, as a doe, set out towards the castle.
She soon became a woman again and Fionn married her. Deer were important animals in Norse mythology, especially bucks. To read more about deer in Norse mythology, please see my post on stag meanings and symbolism. Hindus associate their goddess Saraswati with deer. Saraswati is the goddess of learning, knowledge, music, and the arts. In fact, Saraswati is credited with the creation of the Vedas, the oldest sacred Hindu texts. And in one Hindu myth, Saraswati shapeshifts into a red deer named Rohit.
In one story, the deity Takemikazuchi-no-mikoto traveled to what is now the town of Nara on a white deer. The Kasuga Grand Shrine was erected there in his honor.
And today, in honor of the white deer, other deer roam freely around the temple grounds, where tourists feed them. In the Bible, deer serve as a reminder for people to maintain their surefootedness and devotion to God amidst the perils they can face on Earth. Deer also symbolized the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. In another story, a Catholic priest who became Saint Giles went to live in a forest in southern France. He lives in solitude for many years except for the companionship of a deer.
Saint Giles refused treatment, and thus earned the respect of the king. The king granted the saint land on which to build a monastery, which became the Abbey of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard. Similar to the Cat and the Dog , Deer totem people know how to use the power of gentleness.
They do this by touching the hearts and minds of the wounded beings in their lives. Folks with this spirit animal have a propensity to see new innocence and freshness in life everywhere. They also invariably feel the lure of new adventures. These people often have a link to the arts, especially poetry and music.
People with this power animal are also keen observers and can see well in low light. They are also very compassionate , gentle, and loving people. They also radiate peacefulness that generates a feeling of being safe. Therefore, these people form deep friendships and are truly beloved by all. In general, a Deer dream symbolizes grace , compassion, gentleness, meekness, and natural beauty.
It has feminine qualities and may point to the feminine aspect within yourself. The vision may also represent independence, alertness, and virility. Alternatively, the Deer dream represents vulnerability and naivety. As a result, others may take advantage of you and your gullibility. If the animal is black, then it means that you are not acknowledging or are rejecting the feminine qualities in you. You may not be in tune with your feminine side. To dream that you hunt or kill one of these creatures suggests that you are trying to suppress those feminine qualities.
To see a buck in your dream represents alertness, virility, masculine sexuality, and assertiveness. If there are two bucks fighting, then it signifies male aggression. You are trying to dominate or take control over some area of your life. Alternatively, the dream may be a pun on a dollar. This morning I seen a Doe N buck in my back yard at the wood Line..
I took pictures and it seem like they knew It. Because they both looked right at me.. I experienced a deep connection with deer from a very young age. From then on, I constantly see them, and they have never ran in front of my car. I swerved off of the road and actually lost one of my mirrors. The deer was not hit or harmed in any way.
Please help if you have any insight of ideas! I love my guids anf I would never want to harm or detatch from them. After about practically a year, i went to go visit my beloved boyfriend at the cemetery today. And as I was driving towards the gravesite where he was at, I swear I saw a deer pass alongside of the other sites. The deer was literally just hopping around and then I went to look again, and it just disappeared. I had a dream that two deer eyes were given to me can someone help me make sense of what that would mean?
A few weeks ago I hit a pregnant deer on my way to work and she died. My car was totaled. Please help! You were exactly where you were supposed to be, and so was she. You are compassionate and empathetic, and I have heard that sensitive humans are gentle doorways to the next world when it comes to the death of a living being.
By you being there, she passed into the next world in a more loving and beautiful way than she might have otherwise. Spirit gave you the gift of a totaled car. At the edge of the driveway we have ivy growing, I opened the blind to see that both were nibbling it. I only wish I had a camera to share.
Hello, I love your website and reference it often. Could you perhaps post something about a white deer? I just saw one on an island in the Puget Sound this weekend. Thank you. I was riding my bike to the beach. I came to a crosswalk. Got off my bike to walk across. On the other side a huge brown deer buck appears.
He was bigger than a Toyota LandCruiser. I back up to the other side of the road. It looks like the deer is blocking the path and will charge if i continue. Suddenly a car comes with a woman driver and scares the deer off, she signals to me to cross the street. I wake up. Does anyone have any idea what this could mean?
Thank you for your time. I was doing this hypnosis session and apparently my subconscious made me see a deer male in a forest. The first time it appeared in front of me, to the right, as I was walking on a path. Then the 2nd time I saw it was up on a hill, on a flatter plane, coming from some bushes. I turned, it was staring at me, but this time I decided to come closer, until I was right in front of it.
I stretched my arm and hand, to let it smell me. It did and then it licked my hand. It was never afraid of me. Then it turned around and disappeared into the bushes. What could it mean? I once had an experience with a deer, I never forgot that, neither talked about that encounter with anyone. But maybe you can help me with its symbolism…. I was in primary school, and we were visiting the zoo. I stayed behind, in an area of the zoo that resembled a forest, full of trees.
I was going down some stairs, just next to the deer enclosure. The only thing between me and the deers was a net. If I put my fingers inside the net and a deer came close enough, I could touch it. Of course they were all too afraid and just stared at me from a distance. Suddenly, one of the deers approached me, but it was not like the others.
Half of its skull was showing, the right half I think. I stayed there, not scared, just fascinated, and reached my fingers for it. The skull deer licked them. Suddenly, my teacher screamed my name. I looked and went running down to meet the rest of my class. Im skeptical of anything spiritual, but this experience never left my mind. Especially because I studied veterinary medicine with a focus on wildlife, and I know for sure that an animal like that would never be alive.
It makes no sense! Any ideias on what happened 20 years ago? Was it a good or a bad omen? Destiny is destiny. The soul and higher consciousness are receptive to experiences the logical mind rejects. Call it a vision, a dream while awake, a future your soul knew you were meant to serve. It was a precognition of your role to come. Then i wake up.. It was your wake up call.
Many times, actually, until one time. I had been helping her get up for months and she was able to go to the bathroom and we went for short walks. Her mind was still sharp and she still hollered, talked, laughed and cried with me like she always had. I prayed she would go peacefully in her sleep, I told her I would be okay and she could go to heaven and run again. I felt she hung on and fought dying because she knew how hard it was going to be on me.
After the vet left, my son and I put her in my car and were taking her out to my daughters, in the country to bury her. On the interstate I saw a huge turtle, at first I thought it was an oversized sugarbeet, but it had its long neck sticking out from its shell as we passed as if it was waving at us.
After we got the hole dug and had layed her in it and were saying good-bye this 4-foot garter snake came over to us as if it was saying hello and good-bye.
We had just filled the hole up with dirt and I stood up and there were 2 deer that appeared just across the road that had stopped and were looking at us, making sure they had been seen. So I tell my son we need to hurry and get home so I can look up the meaning of my animal totems. She sees them occasionally but has never seen a badger and has only seen rattlesnakes, never garter snakes. Somehow my little girl knew how to make me feel better and make one of the worst days of my life be one that she made sure that I knew how much she loved me and not to feel bad, it would be okay.
I love you bounce! Thank you so much for this incredible story! As tears flow some my face reading this — there is a connection so strong with our animals and the love we share for them And they for us.
My dear, you are so blessed. I know too well the heartfelt feeling of the day putting Bounce in heaven. When I put my Rambo in heaven I drew a pic of him and had him tattooed on my forearm. He is the last thing I see when I go to sleep. Bounce will always be with you and some day you will be joining ed together again at the rainbow bridge God bless. When I was about 10 years old, I was walking home from the school bus stop with a group of kids.
I, being the quiet one, trailed behind a little. As we reached the top of the hill, a fawn came running out to me and began licking my hand non stop- startling me. It followed me me home and refused to approach anyone else, remaining content at my side.
Eventually someone else attempted to go near it and the fawn took off, never to be seen again. At the time, being so young I just assumed it was a chance encounter. But now all these years later, I wonder if there was more meaning behind this event. Why did the fawn choose me. Was this possibly a connection between the animal spirit and myself.
I was just trying to find out the meaning of something, if there is a meaning. The frist time my huband and I made love was outside a deer walked up maybe 25 foot away, made a sort noise as to make us aware of its presence. Stood there a moment or so, we all stared at each other, then it walked away. Once upon a time, about three weeks ago… I now live in Kamloops B.
My wife and I moved here just under two years ago. Four weeks ago, I was walking my dogs down by the river that runs through the city. The river was frozen over and to make a long story short, my dog ran out on the ice and fell through while she was chasing ducks. I ran out to save her and fell through the ice through the ice myself.
We would have died had it not been for three guys that risked their own lives to save ours. Almost drowning in an icy river was very, very, scary. I am forever greatful to these guys. I had nightmares and started to cry in the middle of the day for no reason. I was glad to be alive, but having a hard time of it.
My wife got home from work late one night and we decided to get Chinese for dinner. I went into town to pick up the food. There is two ways into town, and that night I took the long way as I knew I had some time before the food was ready.
This way lead to a four lane freeway up in the hills of Kamloops. It was in the evening and as I was driving down this hill I noticed something in the middle of the freeway. It was a deer. So, I slowed down, hitting my break lights my times to alert the four or five other cars beside me and behind me to also stop. It was a female deer. Then the deer came up to my open driver side window and started to put her face into my car. My first reaction was to pet it.
It right away, backed off. At this point I noticed all the other cars had passed us and we now the only two on the freeway. Just me in my car and this deer staring at me. The deer was right there. She just was looking into the car and then she just looked at me right in the eyes. This went on for many seconds. She just stared into my eyes. I kept checking my mirrors to see if anybody was coming up behind me or ahead of me. Their was no one. We were the only beings on earth. And when I looked back at the deer, she was still staring at me.
Never took her eyes off me. This went on for a few long seconds and then she backed off and very slowly crossed over to the other side of the freeway and made her way up the hill and then disappeared into the night. But this encounter with the deer was the start of my getting over almost dying a week ago.
I felt a little better about stuff. It was just really weird that this thing with the deer happened right after this other weird thing with the dog and the river.
I tired to forget about it in a way, but kept coming back to it. But I am open to believe anything at this point. Life is strange and it is short. Thank you for sharing that story… that is a spiritual encounter alright…. I spend a great deal of my life with Cree and Dakota and Dene people, and go to sweat lodge ceremonies regularly…. I have learned much about First Nations spirituality and have taken it in as my own….
That is an amazing gift and a message for sure…. Eagle sees it. Bear smells it. And Deer hears it. I have always much more easily identified with the predators and scavengers of the world. Having been a fighter, and someone whose life has been largely identified by my capacity for violence, I have created the illusion, even to myself, that I am most like Bear, Wolf or Coyote. Even Horse carries a power that it is hard not to be in awe of.
But Deer is unmistakably a prey animal. And, if I am truthful with myself, which is always a struggle, I lived my early life, perhaps all of my life as Prey. That can hold great power. He was a Prey animal who changed the world. The capacity to do harm to others makes us feel powerful, but it can prevent true awareness because we convince ourselves that we are in control.
He walk the world without humility. She is never guilty of hubris. That is a powerful way to be in the world. I was very good at violence, and at so many things that I do, because I was more aware than many others, because I was Prey. Perhaps this is the year that I begin to know and understand the power that was given to me because I was Prey. Perhaps this is the year when I begin to know that there is great power in being Prey.
Yes, so beautiful, thank you! My heart aches for your younger self. I hope that you have shared this somewhere else as well, somewhere where more people can benefit from your message! I hope that you also share other words that you have written, as you truly have a beautiful message and a wonderful way of conveying it.
I am happy to know that you are embracing all of yourself, and stepping into the vulnerable parts that feel really uncomfortable, and recognizing the power in them! I too have struggled with showing my vulnerability. I had a reading months ago where she said she kept seeing antlers on me. I had asked about what classification she saw me as, as she identified as an elemental fairy, and saw these types of things in others as well.
I felt disappointed… antlers? Deer energy? I feel a strong, deep sense of purpose, that I am here for big things! How can my energy be as lowly as a mere deer?! Said my ego I am generally quite aware and conscious, and yet this still took me in. I mostly ignored and forgot about her vision until today. I researched deer spiritual meaning and this is about the 3rd article I came across and I laughed out loud when I learned what the deer represents.
Essentially: me. The descriptions are how I would describe myself if I were truly tuning into my pure essence. And I love how you worded that about Ghandi being prey and making a difference.
We truly need more prey leaders! We are the ones who will lead in the direction of peace and love. And shine my light into the world! Last night was fantastic, I got to seen2 deer. Such a blessing. Thank you for your authentic words. Today in church I felt all my fear as a women … prey to potential violence.
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