What does it mean when a penguin visits you via your dreams, thoughts, or the continual imaging through meditation, television, even gifts? The penguin easily travels through the dream world as of swimming in the sea. A penguin’s appearance could mean several things depending on the events in your current life. The first message is family and closeness. The female Emperor Penguin lays the egg, but the male penguin keeps it warm resting on top of his feet for two months. In the meantime, the female Emperor Penguin takes off to find food.
The penguin is a social bird that lives in a large community. Part of the reason they live together is survival. While not all penguins live in the cold, most do, and having other warm penguin bodies nearby makes the weather durable. Penguins share in basic duties such as childcare and food gathering. A lone penguin would have a hard time surviving for long.
The penguin is the poster child for adaptability or making lemonade from lemons. It obvious they can’t fly like most birds, but they are excellent swimmers, divers, and fishing animals. In the absence of fresh water, a penguin can survive on seawater due to its supraorbital gland. The penguin also demonstrates survival is possible even in places and times that feel insurmountable. Never give up, you got this could be his basic message.
The penguin is easily recognized by its black and white coloring, which resembles formal dress. Black and white are opposite of each other. Having black wings, back, and head allows it to disappear into the dark sea. The coloration is protective and, in some ways, makes the bird invisible to predators. Take the penguin magic and use it as a protective shield rather like a coat of invisibility.
Flight birds lose a feather here and there, but penguins molt over a span of three weeks. This is called a catastrophic molt. Think of this as an emotional upheaval or a huge shift in your world where the familiar fades away and you might feel a bit adrift. The first time a penguin molts it might wonder if its feathers are ever coming back. The second time isn’t as scary. A penguin is a reminder that chaotic times happen before big, positive changes. Hold tight, it gets better. Sometimes, the positivity isn’t recognized until later because we want to hang onto what is familiar and grieve its loss. Penguins are experts at accepting change.
It’s no wonder the penguin is an expert at dealing with opposite, contradictions and confusion in life. The penguin can live in both hot and cold climates. Use the penguin’s assistance to deal with a changing environment. What you don’t witness in penguins is rushing about, their body structure allows them to waddle as opposed to sprinting places, although their belly slide gets them places fast when the need arises. A penguin tends to take a more practical approach to life due to its inability to make fast starts or turns. The appearance of a penguin could be a reminder to reflect on your actions and your words before doing or saying.
Penguins although classified as birds although they can’t fly. Flight birds have hollow bones making it easier to glide on the wind. Penguins have heavy bones, which enables them to dive deep. This reminds us that it is okay to be different. A Wish for Wings, a Christmas Cartoon special, dealt with Opus, a penguin who wanted to fly. Every day, he tried to fly without success. On Christmas Eve, Santa crashed in an icy lake and only Opus could save him because unlike the other birds he could swim in the icy water. What made him different, also allowed him to do what the others couldn’t. Embrace your differences is one of the penguin messages.
If you ever watched a documentary on penguins, it’s easy to see they excel at having fun especially using their belly as an impromptu slide on the icy mounds. Penguins know when to take a break. Life can sometimes be brutal without play or laughter. No matter where they may be, penguins recognize the importance of play. It’s no wonder the penguin exhibits at zoos and aquariums are the most popular with children and adults.
Because the penguin spends most of its life in water, it excels in the deep dives important to analyzing emotions and motivations. Along with emotions, comes spirituality, which makes the bird a spiritual messenger.
Has a penguin showed up in response to a question, situation, or request? Penguins will often show up in dreams. Feel free to ask the penguin for clearer information by saying simply, “I want to dream about penguins tonight, but pay attention since often their answer may take the form of physical displays as opposed to actual words. Remember to record your dream immediately. When in doubt, repeat your request the next night. Answers don’t always come immediately, but eventually you’ll know.
Finally, penguin dreams can be interpreted in several ways and you are the best interpreter of your dreams. A penguin can mean you feel weighted down by current problems. It can also mean things aren’t as bad as they seem, too. It is a reminder that you create your own reality and your response to it.
Consider all the message the penguin has to offer and you’ll know which one is right for you.
Penguin Connections
Action
Adaptability
Astral Projection
Authenticity
Confidence
Closeness
Creativity
Determination
Discipline
Dreaming
Emotions
Endurance
Family
Fasting
Fatherhood
Ideals
Movement
Patience
Practicality
Purpose
Sacrifice
Specialization
Spiritual
Territory
Thoughts
Yin and Yang