Meeting Your Power Animal: A Sacred Ally in the Q’ero Shamanic Tradition
In the Q’ero lineage of Peruvian shamanism, we do not walk alone.
We walk with the mountains, the elements, the ancestors, and with spirit allies who support us in healing, protection, and purpose. One of the most intimate and powerful of these allies is the Power Animal.
A Power Animal is not a symbol, a personality trait, or a “spirit animal” chosen from a list. In the Q’ero tradition, a Power Animal is a living energetic being—a conscious ally from the natural and spirit worlds who comes to walk beside you and share its medicine.
What Is a Power Animal?
A Power Animal is a spiritual ally that carries specific qualities, strengths, and healing abilities. It may reflect aspects of your soul, offer protection during times of transition, or lend you medicine that supports your growth and healing.
In Andean cosmology, all beings—human, animal, mountain, plant, and spirit—are part of the great web of life governed by Ayni, sacred reciprocity. When you work with a Power Animal, you are entering a relationship. You receive its guidance and medicine, and in return, you honor it through awareness, respect, and right action.
A Power Animal may walk with you for a lifetime, or it may come for a season. Some arrive quietly, others with great presence. All arrive with purpose.
Power Animals in the Q’ero Lineage
In the Q’ero tradition, shamans—known as paqos—journey between the three sacred worlds:
Kaypacha – the middle world, our everyday reality
Uqhupacha – the inner or lower world, associated with healing, instinct, and transformation
Hananpacha – the upper world, the realm of higher wisdom and spirit
Power Animals are often encountered through shamanic journeying, a practice that uses rhythmic sound, intention, and altered states of consciousness to access these realms.
These animals are not imagined. They are experienced through direct knowing, sensation, vision, and communication. Once connected, they can assist in many ways—offering protection, clearing heavy energy (hoocha), strengthening intuition, and supporting healing work for oneself and others.
How Power Animals Are Used
Working with a Power Animal is a relationship that deepens over time. In the Q’ero lineage, Power Animals may assist you by:
Offering energetic protection and grounding
Helping clear dense or stagnant energy
Supporting emotional and spiritual healing
Strengthening intuition and inner vision
Guiding you through transitions and initiations
Lending you their qualities—strength, grace, discernment, courage, or sensitivity
Some Power Animals are fierce protectors. Others are gentle healers. Many are both.
They may communicate through images, sensations, emotions, or direct knowing. As trust builds, the relationship becomes clearer and more refined.
When a Power Animal Comes
Power Animals come when you are ready.
Sometimes people expect an immediate experience, but in the Q’ero understanding, readiness matters. An animal may wait until you are prepared to carry its medicine responsibly. When it does come, it is often a remembering—a feeling of recognition rather than surprise.
Meeting your Power Animal is not about control. It is about listening.
An Invitation to Meet Your Power Animal
Later this month, I will be guiding a Power Animal Retrieval—a sacred, guided shamanic journey rooted in the Q’ero tradition.
This class is designed to support you whether:
You are new to shamanic journeying
You feel called but unsure what to expect
You are ready to meet or reconnect with your Power Animal
You want a deeper relationship with your spiritual allies
You will be guided safely and intentionally into the journey space, supported in meeting your Power Animal, and given tools to begin building a relationship with them beyond the class.
You do not need prior experience. You only need openness and curiosity.
Your Power Animal is already walking beside you.
This journey is an invitation to remember.
Power Animal Retrieval – Guided Shamanic Journey
🗓️ Date: 12/18/2025
🕘 Time: 7:00pm EST
📍 Location: Zen Mystery 56 N Federal Hwy, Dania Beach, FL 33004
🎟️ Registration $35: https://metafix1111.as.me/?appointmentType=75899317
