Live for the moment and find time each day to celebrate life in your own way.-Raccoon
If Raccoon has come across your path:
This animal can also be reminding you to leave no stone unturned in your quest for resolution with the current problem you are facing. Take the time to look at the whole picture – the seen and the unseen to find a solution.
If Raccoon is your Animal Totem:
You tend to be both shy and charismatic and once you get to know people around you, you are a very sociable person. You have an insatiable curiosity which can occasionally blind you to the dangers of exploring what you are interested in and you thrive on new experiences and new activities. You are an excellent problem solver and have a great deal of ingenuity in solving puzzles and mysteries. You are calm and serene under pressure and often calculating in your response to chaos. You are very tactile and tend to use your sense of touch before all other senses.
3 Raccoons scared the heck out of me arriving on porch yesterday and all peering in at me through my slider door acting like they wanted to come in. I tried to scare them off, but they kept coming back towards me, seemed like young ones maybe separated from their mother? Or maybe it was a mother and her 2 kids as one was more confident than the others. I took pictures of them and even talked to them a little bit. I have heard they can be rabid too and that it unusual for them to be out at 11:45am. I thought it best to really scare them off and did so with some loud banging. I feel bad though as those eyes looked like they wanted my help/food and the look of those eyes still haunt me this next morning. I know they have messages for me so I have been reading the different animal totem pages. I live out on Plum Island on the basin in Newbury, MA, have never seen them out here before. Grateful for the surprise gift.
Raccoon, Atí:ron, is resourceful, clever and playful. She speaks to me of adaptation and determination. Atí:ron is also closely related to Bear, Okwari, which for me seems to be carrying a message from my past.
I just saw two racoons having sex, out in the open in the middle of the day… Thought that was wierd because normally the come out at night and try to hide.
Where did that happen at? I just saw too raccoons, but too hey were not doing that
I have been worried about my sister but have also been drawing boundaries to protect myself from her instability and dishonesty. In the first half of my dream I enter an upstairs room and there are stuffed animals, rabbits, laying on the bed, one of which exhales smoke. I enter the room and wait. My sister emerges from a yellow blanket on the floor between the bed and desk. I ask her why she was hiding and accuse her of lying, I start yelling at her to be honest. She denies it all and disappears. In the second half of my dream a raccoon has entered the house, I am scared that it will hurt someone but I want to show the raccoon kindness. We are standing in a ground level room with one wall covered in windows overlooking a forest, I give the raccoon cereal and tell it about winter sledding, adventures we could enjoy together. The raccoon can understand me and I can understand him, however there are other people in the house and I am still worried for their safety. I find a staff that has become waterlogged and it falls apart in my hands. The raccoon has bitten a child and I have to tell him to leave.
I’m going through a period in my life in which I am working extremely hard on myself;. I’m working very hard to change so many thing about myself to become a stronger, confident and more independent person both mentally and physically. I can sense I’m closer to achieving that goal than ever before. However, sometimes I catch myself looking and prioritizing at the things I want for the now/short term (such as seeking a relationship with someone that may impede on long term goals and may not even be possible to have a relationship with this person, but I find myself desiring it so much), vs the goals I want for the future/long term. (My long term goals will put me in a much better state of being than what I’m in now, which is why it’s so important for me to accomplish them.)
With that said, I live in Florida, Raccoons are pretty common creatures. However, I haven’t seen one in years. Today, I wake up very early as usual for my morning run, and spot a raccoon on my driveway, with some food in his mouth. He doesn’t notice me right away and is just kind of hanging out. He spots me, we make eye contact. I think he could sense I felt hostile towards him (I have a small dog, and am I always worried that a raccoon or other rabid animal may get to her, so my first instinct was to make the raccoon go away) and with that he was startled ran away very fast in the other direction.
Throughout the day, for some reason, the encounter had been on my mind all day. Later this afternoon, I’m at the parking lot (that faces a small canal) of my job (30 miles north) on a phone call. I hear some rustling in the bushes, and low and behold, a raccoon appears. We may eye contact. He seemed gentle, almost as if he was lost and was vulnerable. After 15 seconds of eye contact, he goes back into the bushes and hangs out on the canal bank.
I have no idea what tjis means, and has been on my mind all day. I haven’t seen a raccoon in years, and I see 2 in the same day. The universe is definitely
trying to tell me something, but I don’t know what. Any one care to help?
I had a dream of a woman giving birth to raccoons. It was a movie type setting. But I am pregnant and the woman did resemble me. Any idea of what that means ?
I dreamed my child was born a purple rose and no one thought it was weird in the dream, so no
What happens if i beat up and choked the raccoon what does that mean?
Woke up to chatter which sounded sort of like an alien sound you would see on TV or in a movie. I looked out my bedroom window and saw 4 raccoons right in front of me..there eyes looking at me unafraid. They stayed still and continued chattering to each other as if they where in a deep conversation…slowly they climbed away after about 10 minutes of me looking at them not more then 15 to 20 feet away. Very beautiful…wish I knew what they were saying to me…
Had a dream 2 nights in a row. With a raccoon on my bed. 😔 Can’t remember much details about the first dream. But the second dream I was laying on my bed with some friends and out of nowhere I see a raccoon face and I jump up. Then my friend jumped up. The raccoon then jumps off the bed and runs out my bedroom door. Which I can know what this dream means.
Basically had the same dream couple of hours ago there was two beds and water leak he came through the water leak and crawled under a crack on the bottom of the bed to hide and I tried catching it but it was so gross..
I just locked eyes with a beautiful raccoon as i was taking out my trash. I feel it had to mean something?
I came across a young raccoon just moments ago shortly after letting my dogs out to go pee. It was very strange considering that it was inside my complex’s parking structure, and it’s rare (at least for me) to see raccoons where I live (this was the first time I’ve seen a raccoon in person). It was “chirping” as it was walking down the hall on the 1st floor. I heard it before I saw it, and thought, despite never hearing one “chirp” before, “That’s a raccoon,” and looked down and saw that it was a raccoon. I was awe struck.
I immediately thought it was a sign from the Universe as I’ve been coping with a recent breakup with the man that I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. I had felt lost in the days following the breakup. I was extremely sad, remorseful, angry, etc. before I started down the path of enlightenment. It’s still a long journey until I reach nirvana, but it will be a journey that I will honor and cherish.
I’ve been working on self-improvement and seeking guidance from various sources about finding my higher power, inner peace, emotional mastery, self-improvement, and overall, happiness with being unattached (single but NOT alone)… and I am highly inquisitive by nature, which have lead me on some adventures as well as trouble. However, I am also resourceful, esp. in times of dire straits. Overall, I thank the Universe as now I realize that the raccoon is my true spirit animal. I always had an affinity towards them, despite their reputation to be mean, nasty, and rabies infested.
Sorry for the lack of coherence… I’m just still in awe that I came across one physically during this tough time. It truly is a reminder that I am NOT alone, and that I should accept that things happen for a reason, and I should trust that the Universe has good intentions for me.
I found chopped off raccoon feet on my roof what does that mean and why would one do that
Small game hunters sometimes remove the feet for trophies. They probably decided not to keep them and tossed them up there!!!
😆 Had a dream a raccoon came out of an egg 😯
I dreamed I crossed paths with a raccoon one night. We had somehow driven down the wrong street and, for whatever reason, I was out of the car when I spotted the raccoon nearby. My intentions were to avoid it while walking back to the car but it ran and jumped up on me and I woke up. I do NOT feel good about this dream. I don’t trust raccoons and know them to be very smart and potentially troublesome as well as rabid. I’d appreciate any insight.
I don’t feel good about mines either especially seeing the egg fall a splat and first thinking it was a spider but it was a raccoon… I need to get a tarot reading done on this 🙄
I got an inkling to take a walk in the woods of a small park this morning which isn’t something I typically do before the sun rises. I was sitting in on a log closing my eyes enjoying the quiet. When I opened my eyes there was a raccoon about 20 feet away at the base of a tree whose trunk separated into two sections a few feet off the ground. The raccoon jumped up on the tree where the trunk divides into two and peered at me making eye contact for about a minute. He seemed curious and neither of us were scared. He climbed around the trunk and gave me another looked and scampered up a tree. Not sure what the encounter meant but I feel fortunate to have seen it.
Probably didn’t mean anything. You were in the woods remember? That’s where they live. However if you were say in the bathroom taking s dump then maybe that would have some significance. Lite a match!!
Im being completely serious…because i had a similar encounter with a Raccoon recently.
I was walking to the bus stop,like i normally do every morning, and i see a Raccoon. Perched on a tree that split in two, it shared a rather brief stare with it before it scampered away. The only thing i found weird about this was that it was next to a rather busy street, and the Raccoon was really close to the side walk.
I had a dream my parents and I were meeting up. My dad had a raccoon in a bag for me as a gift. I walked away some opened the bag and it bit me very hard on the hard. I remember having to pry its jaws open. Then im not sure if i let it go or I crushed it but it was outside and gone.any help would be great help! thank you!!!
Never mind I figured it out! My dad used to smoke I started smoking very young probably rto be closer to him he quits and I still smoke some 11years later. Iv been trying to quit for a year or two but really buckling down now. Letting go of crap that I think I need to numb out with smoking its working. Just always something happe s I loose my center and always end up smoking again. Maybe the bite is cancer? So I better get it in the bag while I’m still on top!
Tonight I drove outside of town to watch northern lights. I stayed seated in my car and leaned out my window to watch and wait for my night vision to settle in. I had been so deep in thought about—I don’t remember?—when I heard very soft quiet movement below the car door, looked down, and was so startled to see an animal so close to me that I let out a yelp. When I saw that it was a raccoon, and it trotted away, I felt sorry for scaring it. I’ve been spending a lot of time by myself lately, and feel honored that the raccoon approached me. (I think the raccoon was interested in me, because I didn’t have any foods in the car.) I said thank you to the raccoon for helping me feel less alone.
I was sitting with a friend and a racoon sneaked up i was starteled a little but my friend said it was okay that he wouldnt have gotten close if he didnt feel safe so we ke0t talking later on the racoon was just about to join the conversation when we look over and the racoon was smelling around and looking at us at about two to three feet away he looked over at me and bowed and i bowed back and it was the most spectacular thing i had ever seen if anyone can please fill in the gaps for me? Thank you!
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I saw a family of four racoons come into my garden last night. They were soo cute but they were afraid and went away when they saw me standing there and went away.
I have four children who are grown now.
I wonder what this means?
Yesterday i randomly ended up at a house where someone had a pet raccoon. I thought oh how cool since I’m a huge animal lover. Then this morning i clicked on a video on facebook of someone playing the dulcimer and at the end he showed randomly his pet raccoon. 2 pet raccoons in 24 hours what does this mean?
Several sleepless nights after my mother died at home of cancer in the early AM of May 22nd of this year – a Monday – I encountered a raccoon in the backyard. And it wasn’t like any previous raccoon encounter, which typically commenced suddenly, as a shock to all parties, and quickly ended as we scattered in opposite directions. This one was calm, involving steady, studied eye contact. Especially the proximity – about 10 feet – tugged at my heart, and eager for a diversion, I put some Doritos out for her, which were gone by the AM. This repeated itself over the course of many weeks until she eventually became a ‘regular,’ and for health reasons I switched her to dry cat kibble, whole peanuts, and fresh grapes. Eventually she introduced me to her two cubs. I named them the McCoons – Stella, Boomer & Tulip, and learned they set up house & nursery in a tall pine in our back. After dark, they eventually came to my call. I also became acquainted with a giant, lumbering & obese but quite gentle adult male raccoon who sported rolls in place of a neck whom I eventually nicknamed Sugar Bear – aka Gus – for his talent at shimmying all 30lbs up shepherds hooks to dismantle the attached hummingbird feeders only to dump nectar all over his pelt, which he eagerly groomed away. Was he Boomer & Tulips Papa? No ones kissing & telling, although if so, Stella’s apparently pretty content at single motherhood, since she never passes up a chance to go alpha on Gus’ ample backside.
Ive since learned all I can about raccoon personality, behavior, health & culture, although it never once occurred to me that our interactions represented anything more than the chance intersection of domesticated & wild trajectories. Yet in my ongoing research about all thing raccoon, I eventually encountered the subject of animal spirit guides, particularly Native varieties. And in retrospect, the emotional diversion & sustenance these creatures have provided these last 3 painful months has been uniquely, memorably restorative. I’m not conventionally religious, or even all that spiritual, although I try & envy those who are. I’m also a bit of a skeptic regarding all things wow-woo or Gris-Gris. Yet something about what I’ve read elsewhere, and even here on this board, does resonate with the timing and significance of this huge life fork I’m wrangling, which includes a permanent 1,500 mile move to care for my now ailing (and difficult) father. I’m not sure where this is going, but since I’ve never before drawn any lines among the random dots that seem to comprise my present life, I figured I’d try in words here.
It’s now 9:44pm in Alabama, and so I expect my furry buddies to come bounding over the hill any time. Thank you to everyone who’s shared their experiences with these wonderful creatures, and of course, thank you for the opportunity to finally share mine.
Loved your story!
So sorry for your loss of your mom though, and the seemingly rough road ahead…
I love your interactions with your friends and hope you don’t really have to leave them…
I was researching meaning behind raccoons, as I am very spiritual, and have had many great,
interesting interactions with the spirit world and animals…and was very shocked to find a raccoon
Rustling around outside my window, and enjoying my back yard that I just transformed into a woodsy ‘Park Place’…
but I live in the City! In a crazy busy neighborhood, no Country really around…but the Fresno State orchards and fields…was shocked to find one, or its family which I think I heard, saw another couple of times, but they come very late…and I don’t turn on lights for fear of scaring them…
Thanks for your story…and many blessings on your journey!
Hello,
My sister attended an ayahuasca ceremony. During the ceremony a hair scarf, which was hers, was on the mat with her and she got up and said “There’s a dead raccoon on my mat!” No one knew why she was saying it until after she had returned and she said the scarf turned into it. She said she asked for it to be removed but no body heard her ask to take the raccoon away. she later snatched her scarf and put it under the pillow out of view. Later in the night, she said there was a light fixture on the ceiling that had a design that turned into a wolf. She said as she was asking God if He was sure about various experiences in her life that the wolf said “Yes, listen to Him!”
During the night she was being shown painful situations in her life and shown the actual pain she caused others. She even revealed family secrets. What could the dead raccoon mean??
My parents passed away couple years ago. The house is still as it was the day they past.
Had a dream I was upstairs and a raccoon ran across the hall from my room to theirs. OMG I thought
poor raccoon has been in the house w/out any food. Poor thing must be hungry.
NOTE: I live in Hawaii and go to the house every 2 to 3 months. So I was really worried and surprised
to see it was still alive.
Thats so symbolical, maybe its showing you that you put on a mask when they passed that youve been starving your self maybe physically maybe mentaly maybe spiritually, you think about it
I’ve been 😐 Dreaming of trying to catch a Raccoon, this has happened twice in recent months, it makes for a veey restless mental state. In the dream I catch him a few times with different methods but he always escapes and returns.
Dont worry friend, it might just mean your growing through diffrent believes or people that the past you needed to grow and learn from, and that feeling that you havent caught it might be that you could just catch a train of growth that wont wait so you better catch it every time you can
I had a dream this morning where a lady asked me to hold 2 raccoons …I didn’t want to..one started crawling under my robe between my legs and I tried removing it the other one headed for my neck I was afraid they were going to bite me but I didn’t know how to get rid of them then I woke u OK
I have a sweet , still wild racoon that had been coming to my did every nite the last few weeks. Her has only one eye, my beagle had only one eye. His leg is damaged, his ear is partly missing. My old doggie has similar issues. Even tho feeding wild racoons is not recommended, he’s handicapped, so I’m helping him, he asked, and I’m helping. I’ve always had an affection for them, as my Dad I raised a baby racoon to a 2 yr old when I was a teen. Now my Dad has has passed, and I can’t help thinking he and this racoon are not linked in some way?
I dreamt of a raccoon sitting on my shoulders and liking my face.
I was got scared and so tried to get it off my shoulders but it held
on tight, after a long struggle i threw it down and climbed a wall
but it tried to climb the wall to where I was sitting so I picked a
long wood and hit it several times before it died and disappeared.
The strange thing is that I never knew the name of this animal but after I killed it in my dream i asked and a voice told me the name is a raccoon and that everything is now normal.
There must be a meaning to this strange dream. PLEASE HELP ME.
Hey guys
I from Germany, so raccoons are not likely to be seen around here. So I’ve never seen one in nature, nor did I have ever been interested in them
Last night I did my first shamanic journey with a guided meditation and when the speaker said “and now ask your soul leader to appear” I suddenly saw a raccoon, and in the same moment I felt an enormous amount of energy flowing through me, it was so much I didn’t even now how to handle it and struggled whether to open my eyes or not. I wasn’t really afraid, but either I was feeling comfortable, so I opened my eyes, but this strange feeling didn’t disappear for about 2 minutes. My heart was pounding like hell and I felt like cold perspiration on my skin…
After the feeling disappeared, I felt kind of irritated.
You guys know what this was meant to be?
I would be glad for an answer!
Love, Isabella
Your spirit animal for sure 🙂 😀
I just had an encounter with a raccoon. I went to put some trash in my outside trashcan and there was a racoon at the bottom. I jumped back, worried about rabies and such, but also struck by the raccoons face with the big eyes, and the direct eye contact, which seemed child like almost….
So I left the trashcan open …and went about my business and came back a few hours later to see if the raccoon was gone. But the raccoon was not gone it was in a ball at the bottom of the trashcan, clearly couldn’t get out.
So I tipped over the trashcan and the raccoon scampered out and then climbed the fence and sat on the top, and looked back at me with this inquiring look on his face, clearly not afraid at all….and again, i’m worried about rabies. ? So I said “go on go on”, and waved my hand, but he or she didn’t move just kept staring at me. So then I banged the fence gate and it moved away and went down to the ground.
I peaked out and it stopped again giving me these wide-eyed child like looks, and almost starting to come towards me. Which again worried me as I wasn’t sure what was what. So I banged the gate again and then it turned around and left.
I’m just wondering about the significance, if anybody has any ideas? The childlike look in the eyes, yet calm, was almost human…it was strange, and that look keeps haunting me even now…
Ive experienced a similar calm and childlike feeling from racoons they are just darling little creatures maybe this was a reminder that animals have feelings and thoughts just as we do and they are so much more intelligent than we give them credit for and they need compassion too. Its easy to forget in a society where machine and consumerison has has taken over or so it seens…but yes perhaps its a reminder to take better care of our earth because we have furry neighboors out their with as much love in their hearts as a human child. Dont believe me? Adopt an animal in need and see the love and gratitude they have for those that they have bonded with first hand 🙂
I totally agree with Amber. I would add, instead of scary an animals, say “thank you for your message”. Usually animals or insects leave once they know that the have well done their work. 😉
I believe the raccoon was thanking you. He she was expressing gratitude and appreciation.
Maybe its an old friend trying to get you to remeber your old self that was child like and un afraind
I think the racoon was hungry and was hoping you would leave food.
Me and a friend was driving and she hit the raccon. A couple of days before that we swerved around abother racoon. The time she hit it the raccon was croosing the street, saw or car turned back to go back to the otherside, but there was are car coming from that direction. I guess it got confused and then turned back to our direction. She hit it and we heard a hit; it broke her light on the bottom of the bumper, but i’m not sure it died. What does this mean ? If I hit it or it died?
If you hit an animal the least you can do is turn around and make sure its dead if not call 911 so someone can put it out of its misery so it doesn’t suffer a long painful death. There are also rehabilitation centers that come out and will rehab injured animals if the injury is minor. Please be considerate.
311, or your local Animal Services, is better than 911, as the 911 dispatchers are for police, fire, ambulance.
I had lost my fiance to a drug overdose. He was a very troubled person. It was devastating to me. This was about 7 yrs ago.
In his last year, we bought an up north recreational property. It was a dream of mine, which he helped me obtain. After he died, Id go up there and wear my rings and cry and cry.
On the 3rd anniversary of his death, I was walking, and my vision clouded up like rolling fog. The fog parted slightly in the middle, and this snarling, growling raccoon came racing at me. I stood in fear, screaming on the road, opened my eyes, and everything was normal. A message was left with me, “Stop crying over me, Im not worth it.”
What was the significance of the raccoon? It was an unreal experience, I’ll never forget how terrified I was.
—Barb Andrews
Hello, if I may attempt to answer your question of “why the raccoon” in your….we’ll call it a waking vision.
—- They often symbolize the masks we wear, as such, the roles we accept and play. Perhaps this raccoon was utilized to represent to you that you needed (perhaps still need) to put down the mask of “grieving lover” and adopt the new mask of whatever it is you want to do with your life or whagrt is you wanted before he died, that you put on hold in your grief.
It was angry because your grief over the past is preventing the present and limiting the future. Grief can rob our lives of any true living. Whatever part of the Universe spoke to you in that Raccoon knew all too well this fact and wanted it get it across to you. Live your life and be grateful for the time you did get.
I hope you’re doing alright. These are just my assumptions. Take care and be gentle with yourself, Love. This place is hard sometimes.
You’re doing just fine.
That’s a marvelous answer, Jesse. I’m a mental health clinician, and simply your reply resonates with such compassionate mojo, I hope that you, too, work in some capacity with those whose souls are hurting, since they need just that kind of energy.
Terrified to face life alone? Are you being authentic in your clinging to the deceased ex? Racoon is sometimes about masks, pretense. It’s been THREE years and life goes on. This could be any helpful spirit guide letting you know it’s time to move on. Not just racoon. I wonder whether you might want to sell the property he helped you obtain to finalize the separation. Whadaya think? Someone else might enjoy it more. It’s clear you’re not enjoying it.
I awoke last night to my neighbors making a frantic ruckus outside; initially I am disinterested and a bit worried. Southern California is a sometimes dangerous place. So I decide to stay inside and not take the chance. But then my mother comes storming up the stairs to inform me.
I’m told that two large raccoons have cornered a baby raccoon, and are attempting to kill it. The atmosphere was electric with the sounds of distressed neighbors. But still I decide to stay in bed. Raccoons are scary. Past experiences have led me to fear this animal. But again I’m approached by both my mother and my sister. Being that I’m the young man of the house, my roll is clear.
I initially grab a weapon… But as I aproched the scene, blowgun in hand, i could see that the situation called for a more tactful aproche. As I I stood dart loaded, lining up the shot. The cornered raccoon looks to me. We make eye contact; it was clear that violence was not an effective answer. I wondered the house for ages, thinking of a better way to resolve the spectical. As my neighbors start to work them selfs into a panic again; muse strikes and I go to the fridge.
Enlightened, I grabbed some old kfc, and a few eggs. i proceeded outside, and positioned myself behind a hedge so as not to be seen (mind you I’m throwing eggs and chicken at my next door neighbors apartment, as they are all standing there) .
first toss lands with divine precision. One of the two aggressors backs down. The second piece is not as enticing. I resort to eggs. After the third egg was tossed…
That was my moment of realization. All of “this” had happened for a reason. I was guided to that moment in time. Overcome by bliss I go back upstairs. Like a golden puzzle piece. Thanks for reading my enlightenment. My mind is now flooded with curiosity and understanding ^__^ that was a night I will never forget.