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When Violette was on my show a couple of months ago, we ended up talking about our connection to wild animals. I got a bit choked up as I shared how I felt so sad when our mama mockingbird left our front yard. She had been with us for years and had brought me such hope during my time of gestating and finding my voice. Many days, I would walk and she would fly along with me. Other days, I would drive up and see her sitting on our flag pole. When Mark and I would talk in the backyard, she would come over and sing, and I would feed her. Pretty soon, when she saw us in the yard – front or back – she would come.
A few months ago, another mockingbird showed up. This one, much smaller and sleeker than our little mama (so-called because she built a nest in the bush by our front door and laid eggs that never hatched – truly a symbolic reminder of my own experience, too). This mockingbird is much more courageous, coming into the garage with us and pecking at our back door to be fed. One day, as Mark and I were standing outside in the backyard talking, she walked up to eat the June bugs that came two months early this year. I looked at Mark and said, “Isn’t that amazing? She is just like the other one. Not afraid of us at all.” He thought maybe it was the same one, but I knew the other one. She and I have been friends for so long, I knew her bandit markings on her eyes and also her girth, which is not as common with the sleeker, southern mockingbirds.
When this new mockingbird showed up, I felt that somehow it was related to my longing for the one that left, and magically, our mama came back, too, a couple of weeks later! Now, they are both here nearly every day. I find it amazing how I can walk outside and they will fly right over. The younger of the two lives across the street. She took over mama’s abandoned nest, but a storm recently destroyed it. She rebuilt somewhere across the street.
Many people have told me how mean mockingbirds can be, but I have not felt anything other than a oneness with their hearts and souls. Their energy is very loving and family oriented – just like mine.
At the workshop I taught over the weekend, a woman asked me about animal totems, and I shared she can connect to her animal totem by accessing her inner soul connection and asking for the animal to meet her there. If you have a strong sense of connection to nature and animals, by all means, connect with them and enjoy this divine invitation to access energies that will activate and infuse your own energies.
Many years ago, I attended a workshop with one of my mentors who is a shaman. As soon as I reached the city where the workshop would take place, I saw in my mind’s eye a large black cat with green eyes. I could feel this animal’s massive energy as he paced around me. At the time, my orientation was to ask others what to do. I would ask, “What does this mean?” One woman in the class overheard me asking, and said, “Ask it!” That was the beginning of a grand adventure into a deep, personal connection with animals, spirit and energies in a freeing way I had never known before because of the distance I placed between my own knowingness and the experience. Today, I don’t always try to ‘understand’ with my mind, I simply enjoy the feeling I am having in the presence of the animal, the plant, the person I am with. I am one with the energies…connecting on a level of one-ness. It turns out that the ‘cat’ was a beautiful jaguar and he led me on an amazing journey.
When Violette and I talked about our experiences of becoming one with the animals that touched us so deeply (hers was a jellyfish and mine was this mockingbird), we found it hard to describe ‘what’ had taken place as ‘what’ was beyond words and had traveled into the valley of feelings and knowing.
My wish for you is that you will experience this too, if you want. Enjoy the magic all around you.
A couple of weeks ago, mama mockingbird posed for this picture. This is an ACTUAL picture of her! Her feathers have faded over the years, but she’s still fat and fluffy as usual. It’s funny. When I was little, I had birds as pets. People would often comment on how you can’t hug a bird, but, to me, I could connect with them with my hands and feel their hearts beating. I could look at them and know how they were feeling, and talk to them and they would talk back in their parakeet tweets. I believer everything is alive and talking to us. The question is… are we listening?
Mockingbird Animal Totem
Finding your Sacred Song;
Recognizing your Innate Abilities
Mockingbird teaches you the power of song and voice.
It can help you learn new languages and speak them fluently.
People with a Mockingbird totem are known for their talents, rather than their appearance.
It can also help you find your “sacred song” or your life’s purpose
and helps you realize your inner talents.
Mockingbird will help you act on it without fear.
Remember that your inner song is never lost –
if you missed one opportunity, another one will always appear.
Mockingbird also helps you flush out people and events that can hurt you
and allows to see who and what they are.
You hear the true song of others.
Follow your own path. Learn to take what you can and apply
your own creative imagination and intuition to it
and your life will be in harmony.
Looking for a Dream Life:
After Wildcatter Ranch, we went to see The Cliffs. More city-slicker style, if you ask me, this resort is built on the… yes…cliffs by Possum Kingdom Lake – a clear water lake that is absolutely breathtaking. It has a ‘real’ spa, a golf course, and all the ‘city’ things that make things easier. Nothing against ‘roughin’ it’ – I just prefer to be pampered – I am the Queen of Dreams after all!
While at the Cliffs, we saw a bird that I see so often but have never known what kind of bird it is. I asked, and Kathy knew right away – it was a Robin.
I felt so happy to FINALLY know what these little mommy birds at our house are – they come around often and they sit with me – seemingly not afraid at all of me. They feel supportive and sweet. I feel assured and reassured with them. In that moment, I felt so happy! The one we saw I believe was a boy – he had much more distinct markings than those at home – and how be-you-tee-full he was!
The robin redbreast is a bird of Spring, a time of new growth and new beginnings. It flies into our lives on the winds of change asking us to weed our personal gardens and plant new seeds for our future. Rebirth and renewal require changes in all areas of life that have become stagnant and outdated. The robin redbreast teaches us to how to make these changes with joy in our hearts. Its song is a happy one reminding us to let go of our personal drama and learn to laugh with life. If this medicine is underdeveloped those with this totem are continually challenged by the prospects of change. Difficulties arise and emotional discord can surface. Learning how to release our attachments to the old is one of the life lessons the redbreast helps us master.
This bird packs a powerful punch. It holds strong significance in ancient myth and lore. One legend had its origins in European mythology, in which the bird of Spring was associated with the New Year and represented divine sacrifice and the rebirth of the spirit.
In Medieval Europe the robin redbreast was often depicted attending the Christ child, an emblem of the Passion to come. It was told how, at that fateful hour, it was the tiny robin who flew to Jesus’ Crown of Thorns, striving valiantly to pluck the spines away with his beak. Unfortunately the bird succeeded only in tearing his own breast on the thorns. Ever since then it was thought that all robins wore red feathers on their bosoms as a badge of honor. The robin redbreast is a bird of divine service. Those with this totem often have past life ties to the Christ energy. They make excellent priests and missionaries.
The red coloring of the robins chest is linked to the kundalini in man. This life force lives coiled up within the base of the spine. When sufficient spiritual growth has been attained it uncoils, rising up the spine to create heightened awareness. This process enhances psychic vision which leads us into enlightenment. Those with this medicine are dedicated spiritual seekers. Growth can be slow and arduous. With patience, compassion and proper focus spiritual ideals are achieved.
Robins lay powder blue eggs. This is the color associated with the throat chakra in man. It is also linked to heavenly inspiration. Because the throat chakra’s main function is to express the will of God and the egg is symbolic of new life, this helpful little totem teaches us how to assert the creative will of God in all we do. It leads us into new beginnings without fear by restoring faith within our hearts. [With intensive healings the past few months, I believe my throat chakra may finally be healed… thank you!]
Bird nation is the level of animal that is just below spirit – birds take energy up into the heavens. How appropriate that we would soar with the birds – from those who run on the ground to those who soar high above us. We encountered so many species today – they seemed to pull at our attention constantly – even while we (I?-lol) chatted incessantly!
On the way up the dusty road to check out our last stop on the trip – Double J Hacienda & Art Ranch – I saw a graceful Blue Heron. I’m so versed, I called it a huron – lol. Magnificent is all I could feel as I looked at this amazing creature. Patient, poised, clear is what came to me as I looked at him (her?).
The heron is a long legged wading bird. Herons are often seen standing motionless, as if in a meditative state, on its long thin legs. This stance symbolizes its ability to maintain balance through proper focus. Its inner foundation is secure although not fixed.
When the heron feeds it stands in water. Its neck is bent in an S shape. The flowing pattern of the letter S reflects the rhythm of this bird. Understanding your personal rhythm and responding to it accordingly is imperative for those with this medicine.
Water is associated with the mysteries of life. It is connected to the emotional body of man. When you see a heron standing in water notice how deep the water is. [This one was standing on dry land.] This depth can symbolize the depth that needs to be explored within self. The deeper you go the more you discover. Whatever is discovered take the time necessary to stand in silent reflection. In this way clarity of understanding is known.
Those with this medicine have strong emotional natures. They feel things deeply and with passion. The challenge here is to keep passionate thoughts and feelings under control in order to maintain a balanced emotional nature. The advantage of this energy indicates the passion and ambition needed to complete tasks and accomplish goals.
Herons are seldom seen flocking together. They are solitary birds that enjoy their own company. Heron medicine people are independent and willing to make changes when the need arises. Herons stand out in their uniqueness and know how to take advantage of things and events for their own benefit. By observing the heron, its actions and its lack of action we learn how to perfect out personal flight through life. Herons hold a silent power, their grace, agility and majestic presence reflect balance. This balance is the gift they offer to all who choose to receive it.
All in all it was a great day – full of beauty, a few showers, all shades of green – dark, light, bright – and I found myself falling in love with the country my mom is fed by. We always lived in the country and I never liked it much – it felt too far away from everything. Too quiet. Too spacious. Mom calls me her concrete baby, and I admit it, I’m a wuss…not a nature girl and certainly no camper. But I can appreciate the wind, the magnificence, the beauty, the silence. Oh, and the company!