Spirit Guide of the Day is Snow Leopard! Keep your major goals close to you, not talking about them until they are completed. These goals will be completed in leaps past any future obstacles. Now, more than ever, is time to trust your instincts, don't let yourself be changed by the opinions of others. Take your time getting to your goals, moving quietly but steadily until those leaps take you forward to completion. The Snow Leopard reminds us to listen closely to our intuition. To allow ourselves to move in silent, solitary ways as we work to achieve our goals and realize our full potential. Use your intuition and trust it, for the more you listen to the signs within and around you, the more your natural intuitive abilities will grow. Learn to trust in what you can not see rather than resisting information given to us. Stories surrounding the Snow Leopard are rampant throughout mountainous regions where they reside such as the belief that snow leopards are considered to have been birthed to remove the sins of their past lives and killing them would bring those sins into your own life. People who connect with Snow Leopard are able to see into the souls of others and give them love regardless of whats there. These athletic, solitary individuals have strong intuitive abilities for picking up whats going on by listening to the inner feelings of their body. They have gone through struggles in their life as others have tried to diminish them, but trust in their own self has grown over the years.

Snow Leopard, Panthera Uncia, are large, predatory felines. They can range from 60-120 pounds and can reach up to 5 ft tall with a tail approximately 36 inches long. These enormous tails are used for balance as well as warm blankets to cover their more sensitive body parts during the harsh mountain cold of their habitats of Central Asia. Snow Leopards live in some of the harshest conditions in areas such as China, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Russia, and Mongolia, although their population is dropping. They act as a key animal in their environment, acting as an indicator of the health of their habitat. Thick hair adds additional insulation and their wide, fur-covered paws are great snowshoes. These huge paws are attached to strong, powerful legs that can propel these felines in jumps as far as 50 feet, up to six times the length of its own body. Snow Leopards hunt prey such as Blue Sheep, Mountain Ibex, as well as smaller prey such as hares, game birds, and marmots. They have been known to hunt and kill prey as big as three times their own weight. Snow Leopards are most active at dawn and dusk, preferring to ambush their prey using their spotted coats as perfect camouflage in the steep cliff areas, ravines, and rocky outcrops they prefer. They spot their prey with unique green or grey eyes, when most other big cats have yellow or gold eyes. Females are about 30% smaller than males, creating rocky dens lined with their fur to have their young in. Mating season occurs between January and mid-March and a littler size will usually have between 2-3 cubs which will follow their mother on hunts starting at three months old and stay with her until their first winter is over.