Discover Your Spirit Animal

About this project

Twelve animals was never enough

Most spirit animal quizzes give you one animal per zodiac sign. Twelve animals for roughly eight billion people. I took one of those quizzes and was told I was a wolf, and so was the friend sitting next to me, who is nothing like me in any way I can identify. We had been born five weeks apart. That was the whole basis of it.

Zodiac & Soul is what came of that irritation. It crosses your zodiac sign with your personality type, which gives twelve signs multiplied by sixteen types, or 192 distinct spirit animals. Every one has its own written entry: who you are, how the real creature lives, and what people have told each other about it.

How it works

Eight questions, no sign-up, no email address, and nothing stored. The quiz runs entirely in your browser and your answers never reach a server. It takes about two minutes and gives you one animal out of 192 rather than one out of twelve.

What is actually in an entry

Each of the 192 animals has a description written for that specific combination of sign and type, a natural history section about how the real animal lives, a note on its mythology, three defining traits and the signs it sits most easily with. The natural history is the part that took longest. Nearly every animal here is a real species, from the Nubian ibex to the saola, and a handful are creatures of legend where the sign's own symbol demanded it.

Browse by sign

Each sign has its own page with three of its sixteen animals revealed, the traditional astrology behind it, and why that particular family of creatures was chosen.

Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces

Behind the bestiary

I write about how this thing gets researched and revised in Field Notes — including how the 192 were chosen, the ones that are extinct or nearly so, and why there is deliberately no compatibility calculator. The mistakes are in there too.

Written and researched by EBISU. More about the project.

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