The Porcupine Power Animal

The Porcupine symbolizes safety and protection

What does dreaming about The Porcupine mean?

Dreaming of a porcupine  suggests that you need to look out for yourself and protect yourself from emotional or psychological harm. Alternatively, it indicates that there is a situation which you need to approach with openness. Someone in your waking life may not be revealing their vulnerability.

Warning: Sometime The Porcupine comes as a warning though rarely as a prediction. It seeks rather to make us look at things we are ignoring or repressing and bring them into the open and deal with them.

Protection: The Porcupine may come at a time when we need strength of some sort. Are you feeling under pressure with something? Are you eating healthy and exercising? Do you feel under attack?

Barriers: The Porcupine can represent obstacles, a person or situation holding us back. Career wise it may be lack of experience or qualifications. In a relationship it is often a communication issue.

Confusion: The Porcupine can represent confusion or hiding from the truth, a situation where we can’t decide what to do or feel we are banging ours heads on a brick wall. The sooner it’s dealt with the better.

The Porcupine can indicate a person that is putting up barriers by being prickly or offensive. It can also indicate a situation where you feel a need to protect yourself.

Power Animal Cards & Meanings
Spirit Animal Cards & Meanings

Upright Meanings: focus, stimulating people and environments, new beginnings, assertiveness, victory, mental clarity, authority, clear thinking, realising the truth, intellectual ability, new ideas, intensity, breakthroughs, new plans, vision, new projects, valiant, ability to concentrate, success, justice, communication, force, love

The Porcupine represents new ideas, new beginnings, new projects, new plans and breakthroughs. It also indicates intellectual ability, mental clarity, clear thinking and the ability to concentrate. This card signifies communication, vision, force, focus and intensity. It represents making correct decisions, being assertive and justice and authority. The Porcupine can indicate good news in relation to legal matters or legal contracts or letters that may be to your benefit.

Reversed Meanings: insults, intellectual inability, tyranny, obstacles, hostility, inability to concentrate, power, creative blocks, destruction, confusion, misinformation, memory loss, arguments, injustice, lack of assertiveness, making the wrong decision, lack of ideas, failure, hate triumphing over love, frustration, lack of communication

The Reversed Porcupine, though generally a positive card, warns that you must be very careful with your thinking. When it appears, it is easy to feel that something is positive when in fact it is not. Seek outside input.