Spirit Guide of the Day is Lobster! Now is a time of transformation so feel free to use this time to try out multiple varieties of yourself. You may find useful items by looking through your old possessions, finding new use in old things. While this experimentation of transformation occurs, remember a lesson for patience. Wait patiently for your opportunities to come for you. You may be more productive in the evenings rather than during the day. People who connect with Lobster have wonderful concentration, able to stay focused on a task easily. Resourceful and solitary, these individuals will continue to grow in knowlegde as they age. Although at times, your appearance may fool others into thinking you are something that you are not. At times, being around others can make these souls snappy or angry, so take plenty of alone time to balance.

Lobsters are a part of the phyllum Arthropoda, being related to other creatures such as crabs, barnacles, shrimp and insects. These invertebrate crustaceans have hard outer exoskeletons instead of any sort of inner skeleton. They possess a limited nervous system, more closely related to that of an insect, with no real brain. In comparison to a human who has over 100 billion neurons, lobsters and other similar invertebrates contain only approximately 100,000. They have a heart located just behind their stomach, pumping a grey/clear colored blood through the body to pick up oxygen from water entering through the gills found on their thorax. Lobsters are interestingly built creatures, built up of a main body called a Carapace with sets of walking legs and two larger claws called a Pincher Claw and a Crusher Claw. They have a tail that also works as their abdomen, ended with wide tail fins. The Crusher Claw is the larger of the set, with a rounded surface that is used to crush prey such as shellfish. The Ripper, or Pincher Claw, is small and more pointed in order to tear food apart. This is aided by a set of Mandibles that help to crush and ingest food. The Lobster is most commonly found in approximately 40 meters of water, preferring rocky areas with plenty of crevices to hide in for protection. They grow through the process of Moulting, moulting about ten times in the first year of its life. They will do so less frequently as they age, only once every few years for larger lobsters. It can take up to 6 years for a lobster to reach one pound in weight. In order to moult, a new exoskeleton is developed underneath the old one. Minerals and blood from the previous exoskeleton are drained and cause it to shrink. A few days before shedding the exoskeleton, it becomes very soft and will appear bluish in color. This is when the lobster will absorb large amounts of water, pushing apart the old exoskeleton using the new one. Rolling over and bending into a V shape, it can take several hours in this position to remove its legs and other extremities from the older carapace. The absorbed blood and minerals are then released back into the new shell which will take several months before fully hardening. Lobsters also appear in artwork and folklore of many cultures such as in Rome where they were portrayed alongside other edible sea creatures on mosaic floors in domestic and public areas. Around 1630, a Turkish helmet was even used in Eastern Europe featuring overlapping steel plates over the neck guard called a 'lobster tail'. This provided great protection and ventilation for the neck.