Spirit Guide of the day is Moose! Share your joy of fulfilling your goals with others, but do not be boastful or competitive. Use this joy to encourage others in their own dreams and support their triumphs just like your own. You may be experience some sort of emotional challenge, but do not fear for you do have the strength to endure it! Help to guide those who may be looking to you for inspiration and guidance and take some time to explore your awareness or awakening sensitivities. The Moose guide is often connected with the wonder and magic of life and death. One of the most ancient and powerful of signs. To the Algonquin Indians, this guide was known as "Mong-soa" or "twig-eater". This creature's contradictory aspects of awkwardness and grace show us how to balance our own contradictions within ourselves. Despite it's size, it is stealthy and easily camouflaged which aids in this spirit guide's use for invisibility and camouflage. The Moose has even been connected with the powerful, creative, feminine energies of water. The MicMacs of Novia Scotia tell how when the moose is too persistently hunted, it returns to the sea. The Penobscot Indians of Maine hold that the moose was once the whale, the greatest mammal of the sea. These animals are able to dive under water for up to a full minute in order to search for edible greenery, further connecting it with the element of water. They can teach us to cross from one world to another such as that between life and death. Those with this guide may often work with medium abilities and working with spirits. Nearly every northern Indian tribe has tales of the moose that reflect its great wisdom and connection to mental powers and sight. The Menomini of Wisconsin had a moose clan. People who connect with Moose are able to tell what to say and when and are born with a strong intuition and psychic sensitivity. These individuals are patient and independent, but can sometimes be rough with those they find irritating. They are often those who give wisdom to others, loving to teach young ones as they grow older. These souls can be sometimes be rough around the edges, unpredictable, and can take pride in their independence.

Moose, Alces Alces, are herbivorous mammals that can live up to 20 years. These massive creatures are the largest of all the deer species, able to reach over a height of 6 foot and a weight of 1,8000 lbs. The male Moose, or Bull, can grow antlers as wide as 6 foot and weigh as much as 70 lbs. They can be found primarily throughout the northern United States and Canada, but can also be found in Europe where they are known as the Eurasian elk. They range from light brown to dark brown in color with the males being darker than the females, or Cows, usually are. This difference in color is most notable in the face. Bulls also have a large, long flap of skin below their throat called a bell that is thought to attract mates. While females also possess this feature, it is much more prominent in males. Antlers are only found in males, however, unless a female possesses a hormonal imbalance that allows her to grow them. This is rare, however. It takes around 5 months for a bull's antlers to grow which are covered in a velvety skin at first. This skin is shed around the start of the mating season to reveal shiny, hardened antlers ready for courtship and fighting. They will loose these antlers in December before regrowing them at the start of the next spring. Antlers will often grow in a protective arch over the Moose's eyes in order to help protect them during fights between males. Oftentimes, weaker or younger males will simply be scared off by a display of antlers, however, fighting can be intense between two bulls who won't back down. Moose are solitary except for the breeding season between September and October when they come together to find mates. Females will use loud moans to attract a male. Each female will usually give birth only to one young, called a calf, however, in times of plenty a female can sometimes birth twins. The calves are born reddish-brown in color and weigh up to 25 pounds at birth. While weaning occurs at 5 months, a female will continue to care for her young for around a year before she will drive them away in order to care for a new calf. Even though they are solitary, a mother Moose is known for the aggressive protection she will give her children. These herbivores will eat grasses and shrubbery, preferring at higher levels due to the difficulty of lowering their heads to the ground. In winter, they will also eat pine cones and use their broad, snowshoe-like hooves to clear snow in search of lichens and mosses. During warmer seasons, it is common to see Moose standing in lakes, rivers, or wetlands in search of aquatic plants. They are fantastic swimmers able to swim for several miles at a time and submerge themselves for over a minute to search for underwater plants. This is aided by their ability to close their nostrils while under water. In order to maintain their bulky body, they much consumer around 70 lbs of food, over 9000 calories, a day. They are also much faster than their awkward bulk would indicate and are able to run up to 35 mphs.