Spirit Animal - Canada Goose In A Tree

 

Picture by Judy Hirst April 2011.

I was walking up the path, through the woods, with the dogs, when I saw this strange sight ahead of me.  I had to take a picture.

 

Picture by Judy Hirst April 2011.

Yes, it is a Canada Goose in a tree.  As I was walking through the park, I wondered why it was important for me to see this bird in such a strange environment. 

Goose let out a couple of loud honks.  I believe that I have captured the essence of its message.

“This is a time for learning new things and trying out safe places.  When the ground and the water is not safe for me, I know I can be up here.  I have already tested this.  I will be able to watch for that which may harm our kind.  I can give warning.  I also see the world differently from this place.  I now re-arrange my view of all that is.”

Judy@angelsandancestors.com

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Spirit Speaks - Are You Edgy Right Now?

If you are feeling edgy and tired and drained and cranky, and if you are feeling like you have done it all, and you are just DONE, then you need to read this blog.

The map below is of the Seismic Monitor for April 13th – yes it is a day ahead of where I am located.  Take a look at all of the red circles.  Those are the earthquakes that are happening today.  Orange is yesterday’s earthquakes, and yellow indicates the earthquakes in the last two weeks.

This blog is not about creating fear.  There is nothing to fear if you understand what is going on – the earth is realigning and rebalancing – just like we do, by shaking everything out.  You can see that a lot of shaking is going on.

Shaking reverberates through the earth.  We all feel it, to greater or lesser degrees than others around us.   And, just as we feel the stress of humans around us, and that we sometimes get affected by their stress; we are all feeling the stress of the earth. 

So  we need to sit with this agitation and breath it in and out.  I do this in meditation.  I use “The Loving Kindness” meditation. 

LOVING KINDNESS MEDITATION

(Take a deep breath in)

(Speak this line on the out breath)

May I be filled with loving kindness,

(Take a deep breath in)

(Speak this line on the out breath)

May I be well!

(Take a deep breath in)

(Speak this line on the out breath)

May I be peacefull and at ease

(Take a deep breath in)

(Speak this line on the out breath)

May I be happy!

Judy@angelsandancestors.com

The April magazine is up at http://www.angelsandancestors.com/mag/mag1104.pdf

Spirit Animal - Downey Woodpecker’s Mission

Today, on our walk, a Downey Woodpecker flew beside us, from tree to tree for about an eighth of a mile.  I wondered what he was doing.  (I knew it was male because of the red patch.)  He would fly beside us and make this odd humming sound, before he hopped into a tree, looking for bugs or seeds.

The dogs and I stopped and watched him, and he talked about his mission.  Downey’s mission is to care-take the trees in a given territory, and to monitor the Spirits or Energies in the area, and to help them shift when it is time.  He said that he liked what he did, and that he had a pretty good life – he was content.

The dogs and I continued on our walk.  I thought about the simple contentment that this bird was showing me.  What a great teacher!

Judy@angelsandancestors.com

The April magazine is up at http://www.angelsandancestors.com/mag/mag1104.pdf

The Virtues–Words for Meditation

The poster below comes from http://www.virtuesproject.com.  I saw this and thought what a great tool it is for me for meditation, for those times when I need to focus, and a word becomes the focus tool.

I also read the list and thought about how these words describe all the things that I have tried to learn over the years. 

It is a very, long list!

 

judy@angelsandancestors.com

The April magazine is up at http://www.angelsandancestors.com/mag/mag1104.pdf

Spirit Speaks - The Dream Of Turkeys

My dream last night was so very strange.  I dreamed of riding in a car with a big man.  He took me to a farm yard, and told me that the turkeys that I could see were dehydrated, and that they had been in a great fire.  If they did not get water, they would die.  He asked me if I could water them, and I replied yes.

I jumped out of the car while he drove off to get more help.  I found a pail of water in the yard, covered with white feathers.  About 1/4 of mile away, I could see a small lake.  I wondered why the turkeys did not go to the lake.  I checked the water in the pail, and it was clear. I started pushing turkeys to the pail, and soaking their beaks.  Some finally began to drink.  I ran to a shed to get more pails.  I had to look hard for pails that were not cracked. 

As I came back to the turkeys, I saw one turkey fly up on the pail, and tip it over.  The water soaked into the ground.  I carried two pails of water – one for each end of the flock – and shoved turkeys to the pails, and soaked their beaks.  I heard a noise from the other side of the flock, where a bunch of turkeys were trying to drink, and saw one bigger turkey trying to chase the others away from the pail.  He finally flew up on the edge of the pail, and of course, tipped it, and all the water flowed away. 

I carried water until I thought my arms would fall off.  Some turkeys got water, however, they tipped the pails, fought over the pails, and generally wasted more water than they drank.  Some of the turkeys did not get water, and they were falling on the ground, dying.  I was upset!  I finally was so tired I took one of the empty pails, and turned it over and sat and cried.

The man in the car came back, with some help, but it seemed too late.  He patted my shoulder and told me that I had done a good job.  He and the others would burn the dead turkeys and give the turkeys that could drink, some more water. 

At that point, I woke up.  I knew the dream was telling me  a story.  The story felt like a parable about people.  This dream will stay with me a long time!

Judy@angelsandancestors.com

Spirit Speaks - Wisdom Accumulates

 

Wisdom accumulates—not in a linear arithmetic progression but in a complex, dynamic system. Each understanding sheds light upon the others in an interactive living process. Insights that seem unassailable may suddenly meet passionate doubt, all clarity shattered at the very moment it is most needed. Then, just as suddenly, wisdom will resurface, stronger for having vanished, wisdom that now knows of its own disintegration.

Nina Wise, "Sudden Awakening"

I read this quote, and I had this click in my brain that said I have seen or heard this before, but not in this lifetime!  It seems that one of the life lessons that I have chosen is to find out how wisdom works.  What I mean is, what is the shifting point where we move from having random knowledge to the point of having great wisdom?

The Mayan believed that the shift to wisdom happens between fifty and fifty-four years old – if the person lived that long.  Most indigenous peoples do move their adults to an honoured position of “elder” at about the same time.  Very rarely does one become an elder at a younger age.  So, the question for me is – does the time frame that you are alive automatically qualify you to be wise; or, is it that something chemically happens in your brain to make you wise?

In the reading that I have been doing, it seems that there is an actual, physical, chemical change in the brain around this age of life.  This change also seems to be reflected in the emotional, mental, and spiritual make up of the person.  Perhaps that saying is true.  “As we get older, we get smarter!”

What are your thoughts about this?

Judy@angelsandancestors.com

The April magazine is up at http://www.angelsandancestors.com/mag/mag1104.pdf