What is the spiritual Meaning or Essence of Otter? The spiritual meaning of the otter is to play and to love playing, otter works because it is a part of enjoying life to the full. If it does not enjoy work, it does something it enjoys. Otter fulfils its duties as a part of the community, it enjoys the community and enjoys life to its fullest.
Why does Otter appear now? If the otter reveals itself to you, it has done so for a reason. The otter is playful, frivolous and carefree, the otter is also private and does not reveal itself willingly. Enjoy and live, love and laugh like no one is watching.
How do I call upon Otter? To summon the divine feminine, imagine swimming in the stream, the moonlight making the sparkles from the ripples light up like shooting stars. Moving through the water effortlessly occasionally moving onto your back and allowing the smooth water to support you. Encourage this freedom to envelope you and energise the aura that surrounds you.
The Celtic Druid understood the energies of the otter, to rest on a riverbank and watch them. To give praise to the local deity and be thankful for the life we have. The otter told the druid where to fish, the otters provide the secrets of the river, the river shares its secrets of life and allow emotions to flow along with the ebb and flow of the tides and the moons. If the otter reveals itself, it has done so for a reason. The otter is playful, frivolous and carefree, the otter is also private and does not reveal itself willingly. What is important is the otter has revealed itself and does have a meaning.
The spiritual meaning of the otter is to play and to love playing, to live, to love and to laugh like no one is watching. Watch an otter for long enough and it will sneakily chuckle as it forgets it is being watched.
The otter appears in dreams to remind the man that he has an inner child, if the otter appears in a women’s dreams then it is to remind her that men never mature. The otter appears to the father to remind him of the wisdom within a child, the wisdom shared by mother, the otter appears to the mother to remind her of the fun that comes from raising children and that she needs to have fun as she prepares her children for life. Motherhood is a privilege bestowed upon her because it is what she is born to do, inherit from the ancestors and to share with future generations, to become mother, grand-mother and great, grand-mother. To share her wisdom as she shares her life, love and laughs.
When the otter appears it is time to stop what you are doing and take a breath of fresh air, to pause for a moment and let life take you by the hand and lead you into a new beginning. You have been swimming against the current and otter is showing you an easier way. The salmon swims against the current with ease and will jump from the waters to climb natural ladders, this means the otter if wise enough will wait for the salmon to jump out of the water before catching it. Wisdom comes in many forms.
Otter lives on the land but chooses to swim in the sea and in the rivers, it has adapted to the waters and is capable of great depth and great speed in the waters. When otter appears, it is saying that emotional needs are not being met. Someone close is in emotional turmoil, the otter revealed itself as a reminder that this is a temporary situation. Just as the otter adapts to different currents, different tides, it is sometimes best to bask in the sun and let the currents settle before jumping back in and being swept along with it. The male otter is for fun, the female is for domesticity, the male is a child who will never grow up. The female is the provider, the healer, the domestic goddess. "Live life, Love life and laugh like no one is watching" is the motto of the otter.