đWater creatures correspondencesđ
đ ~As iâve been thinking on making this for a loooong time, and some people requested it, here are my personal correspondences for River, Lake, Sea or Ocean creatures! These includes fishes, mollusks, amphibians, reptiles and many more!!! warning: long post ahead lol ~đ
đ Freshwater creatures đ
đ§ ~ Amazon river dolphin: The pink dolphin! It represents love and harmony, sweetness, family, friends, home and health.
đ§ ~ Axolotl: These are unusual among amphibians in that they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis.It represents youth, children, play, having difficulties growing up, but also being able to adapt to different situations easily.
đ§ ~ Betta fish: These adorable river fishes represent fertility, love, health and change.
đ§ ~ Alligator: These represent resilience, magic, honor, fears, primal and ancient power.
đ§ ~ Carp: The beautiful koi fish! In traditional chinese mythology it was thought that carps competed a yearly competition to leap the Longmen Falls, in China, and those who succeed transform into dragons. They represent good luck, protection, balance, health, wealth, abundance.
đ§~ Catfish: These fishes represent adaptation, trust, opportunities, prosperity, acceptance of love, self-love and self-discovery.
đ§~ Crayfish: These crustaceans represent mostly regeneration, abundance and protection, but also love, dreams and the subconscious mind.
đ§ ~ Crocodile: These strong animals represent opportunities, change, patience and growth.
đ§~ Estuarine Crocodile: the worldâs largest living reptile, found in Southeast Asian and Australian estuaries. These have the same meanings as those before mentioned but also wisdom, knowledge, strength and regeneration.
đ§ ~ Electric eel: These represent adventures, confidence and protection.
đ§~ Frog: These amphibians represent cleansing, innocence, renewal, rebirth, fertility, abundance, transformation, metamorphosis, life changes and ancient wisdom.
đ§ ~ Piranha: They represent strength, savagery, fears, using destructive powers for good. Really good for curses/hexes/jinxes.
đ§ ~ River otter: It is a semiaquatic mammal endemic found in and along its waterways and coasts. It represents adventure, freedom, curiosity, going with the flow and overcoming difficulties.Â
đ§ ~ Toad: These represent fertility, change, restless behavior, love, truth, confidence and intuition.
đ Saltwater creatures đ
đ ~ Abalone: These are small to very large marine gastropod molluscs. They are better known for their flesh and the beautiful shiny interior of their shell (iridescent nacre/mother-of-pearl). These colorful creatures represent, love, beauty, gentleness, caring, communication, compassion and peace. Itâs shell helps develop intuition and is really good for healing magic and purifying magic.
đ~ Albacore tuna: These represent stamina, agility, strength, experiences, adventure and travels.
đ ~ Anchovy: These represent love, hope, good luck, success health and wealth.
đ ~ Angelfish: These represent purity, beauty, transformation, emotions, navigation, and assistance.
đ ~ Barracuda: These are also good for curses, or destructive magic. They represent wildness, predation, danger and aggressiveness, but also strength, courage, action, speed and power.
đ ~ Blue whale: These represent deeper awareness, connections, truth, community, balance, knowledge, wisdom, navigation, movement, songs, music, rhythm and understanding.
đ ~ Bull shark and Great White shark: Iâm putting these together because they share a lot of meanings. They both represent strength, strong emotions, smartness, survival. It is believed that sharks can bring storms. A shark amulet can bring good luck and protection.
đ ~ Crab: These are highly related to the zodiac sign of cancer, and to the Moon. They represent rebirth, cycles, protection, prosperity, family, home and health, trust, emotions and regeneration.
đ ~ Clam: These mollusks represent balance, answers, truth, strength against adversity, deep emotions, the seek for harmony and health and healing.
đ ~ Clownfish: Also known as anemone fish, these represent learning new lessons, growth, wisdom, knowledge, beauty, camouflage, transmutation and protection. Really good for glamour spells!!!
đ ~ Cod (Fish): These represent wealth, health, prosperity, money and success.
đ ~ Conch snails: These are also mollusks, they represent speech, truth, love, trust, spiritual growth, art and beauty.
đ ~ Coral: Corals are marine invertebrate animals, mostly living in colonies that form by the budding of new coral polyps from an original, founding individual, and some colonies are strengthened by calcium carbonates. They represent fertility, protection, spiritual awakening, beauty, patience, longevity, friendship, playfulness and harmony.
đ ~ Cuttlefish: These are cephalopods, molluscs with internal shell, from the same family as squids and octopuses. They represent adaptability, camouflage, awareness, internal strength and gentleness.
đ ~ Dolphins: Dolphins are really smart sea mammals! They represent intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, staying strongly tuned with your instincts and intuition, and also joy and playfulness, peace, gentleness, harmony, protection, inner strength and cooperation.
đ ~ Dragonet (Fish): AÂ tropical fish of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with dragon-like eyes and fins. They represent happiness, changes, the feminine, wishes, beauty and inspiration.
đ ~ Dugong or Sea cow: Herbivorous marine mammal, a threatened species of the coastal Indian Ocean. They represent gentleness, family, friendship, bonding with people, love, self love, self care.
đ ~ Eel: Long-bodied fishes mostly living in shallow waters. They represent overcoming difficulties and reaching inner peace, opportunities, fertility and responsibility.
đ ~ Elephant seal: AÂ large seal, with big-nosed males, living in the waters around western North America and Antarctica. They represent strength, protecting whatâs yours, bravery, travel and also sometimes playfulness.
đ ~Â Emperor Shrimp: a bright-colored shrimp of the Indo-Pacific region that lives cooperatively on other sea animals. They represent joy, gatherings, family, self-care and confidence.
đ ~Â Flying Fish: a tropical fish with wing-like pectoral fins. They represent, pure happiness, joy, freedom, escaping from reality. Flying fish do not actually fly, but they can glide over the sea for long distances when trying to escape from predators, this can represent that even in difficult situations, when you canât seem to find an answer, thereâs always a solution or a positive aspect.
đ ~Â Giant Squid: one of the largest living animals, up to 43 feet long, found in the worldâs deepest oceans. They represent having strength and power while being soft, graceful, agile and flexible.
đ ~ Hammerhead shark: These sharks, thanks to the unusual structure of their heads, have specially strong senses. They represent deep instincts and intuition, confidence.
đ ~ Jellyfish: Among the worldâs most ancient multicelled animals, with a soft, jelly-like âbellâ body and tentacles. These represent going with the flow, balance, harmony, love, company, family, travel, cooperation and sociability.
đ ~Â Krill: tiny shrimp-like crustaceans, very numerous in all oceans, important food for other creatures, like whales. These represent health, wealth, prosperity, life, renewal and cycles.
đ ~ Leafy Sea Dragon: Fish with seaweed-like appendages for camouflage. They represent gentle masculinity, currents, protection, power.
đ ~ Limpet snails: These small mollusks represent persistence, peace, flexibility, focus, determination and strength, balancing emotions, grace and harmony.
đ ~ Lionfish: AÂ venomous fish with red and white stripes and spiny dorsal fins. These represent facing dangers, courage, power and also danger and strength hidden in beauty. Things that make us look good can also be our weapons. They also represent speed, agility and movement.
đ ~ Manatee: Large sea mammal, related to the Dugong, but with rounded flippers. These represent acceptance, slowing down, calmness, gentleness, peace, love, stewardship, trust and sometimes connection and exploration, adventure and good things to come.
đ ~ Manta ray: Very large (up to 20 feet), a filter-feeder fish of open ocean. Manta rays represent quietness and gentleness, peace of mind, while facing difficult or complex situations. Also navigation, travel and purification.
đ ~ Mussel: These mollusks represent self-care, love, expression, being oneself, strong beliefs, family, friends, health, travel, good luck and communication. Strongly ruled by Mercury.
đ ~ Narwhal: an Arctic whale whose males have a long tusk, the âunicornâ of the sea. These represent dreams, the subconscious mind, deep emotions, wisdom and freedom, but also strength, power and magic.
đ ~Â Nautilus: a primitive mollusk of the tropical Pacific, with a spiral shell and tentacles. They represent ancient wisdom, logic, knowledge and adaptability, to find balance and proportionality in all things, blending into surroundings, empathy and insights.
đ ~Â Nudibranch: Colorful marine slug. These represent emotions, love, hope, grace, harmony, elegance, letting go harmful relationships and feelings, clarity of mind, confidence, listening to intuition and to your senses, camouflage (good for glamour magic!) and confidence.
đ ~ Octopus: Octopuses are soft-bodied cephalopod mollusks, with eight arms and no shell. They represent wisdom, intelligence, smartness, flexibility, adaptability and camouflage, really good for glamour and study spells!.
đ ~ Orca: Toothed, predatory black-and-white dolphin. These represent beauty, grace, connection, leadership, travel, navigation, confidence, deep thoughts and creativity.
đ ~ Oyster snails: These mollusks represent balance between numerous aspects of oneself that may be really different from one another, harmony in emotions, open mind, intuition, wisdom and magic.
đ ~ Scallop snails: These beings represent harmony in thoughts, communication, patience, open mind and spirit, gaining a new point of view or understanding of a situation, expression.
đ ~ Sea butterfly or Sea angel: This is a type of gastropod sea snail, mollusk, that has beautiful âwingsâ. It represents freedom, currents, letting go, flexibility, delicateness, and duality: gentleness and inner strength. They also represent dreams, magic and ethereal beings.
đ ~ Seahorse: Seahorses represent patience, serenity and persistence, as well as the ability to pause for a moment, rethink your actions, listen to new voices, find new facts, and gain a new perspective of a situation.
đ ~ Seal: Seals represent change, creativity, dreams, emotions, good luck, imagination, love, lucid dreaming, intelligence, intuition, success and understanding.
đ ~ Sea urchin: These are small, globular, spiny animals from the echinoderm phylum, closely related to starfish. A good example of them are sand dollars! They represent good luck, tough exteriors and sweet, gentle interiors, softness, inner beauty and strength, wealth and grounding.
đ ~ Shrimp: These are little crustaceans with long bodies that play really important roles in the marine the food chain. They represent health, opportunities, abundance, good luck, love and self-care.
đ ~ Squid: Squids are cephalopod mollusks. They represent movement, productivity, prosperity, travel, change, cycles, camouflage, concealment, art, communication, curiosity,Â
đ ~ Starfish: These beautiful echinoderms can come in many forms! not just the five pointed one. Anyways, they as a whole represent wishes, dreams, goals, movement, purification, love, healing, empathy, protection.
đ ~ Stingray: These are, as manta rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks, but with stingers on the tail for self-defence. They represent inner strength, guidance, power, awareness, elegance, grace and tenacity.
đ ~ Walrus:These are marine mammals with prominent tusks, present in both the male and female specimens, native of the Arctic ocean. They represent wisdom, kindness, inner power, sociability, calmness and friendship.
đ ~hehe, that was a really long post indeed. Iâve worked on this post for a really long time and I spent a lot of energy into researching these! Hope you all like it and find this useful :âD ~đ
đ With love, Nao đ