Bird Divination by Mark

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

Anhinga:
Anhinga can show how to delve into the depths of yourself and chase your dreams, ambitions and goals whether it be physical or spiritual endeavors. He will teach ways to spread your wings of possibilities. Anhinga will demonstrate how to fly with utmost timing and precision and only when thoughts and strong intentions are in place. He will teach great maneuverability and swiftness with a very direct "spearheading" approach. Are you open to your emotions and to allow them to guide you? It is time to trust your feelings and go after what you want. Trust in Anhinga's abilities for now is the time that your thrust is very powerful.
Blackbird:
Blackbird awakens the mind with awareness as changes of perceptions are unfolding. He stirs psychic abilities and brings to consciousness latent healing gifts and creativity. Blackbird shows how to move with determination, focus and tenacity and how to use your power to its fullest potential. At this time there is a magic of the unseen worlds coming forth that is paired with the balance of grounding within the earth as you walk your path. Blackbird will guide in this new awakening. Blackbird teaches use of intuition that will aid in understanding Mother Nature and the connection to all things. Are you listening carefully to the seen and unseen worlds? Are you grounding and balancing your energy appropriately? Blackbird will teach much and bring new surprises when you least expect it. Pay attention and listen carefully.

Bluebird:
Bluebird is about your happiness within and without. He signifies a contentment and fulfillment that is happening or is about to happen. Bluebird shows how to find those joyful gems in everyday life with an appreciation anew. He teaches a balance of work and play and reminds us to reinstate the fun back into life. Listen to the song of Bluebird in order to sing your own of joy with an awakened confidence and internal peace. It is time to look for chances to touch joy in your life. Dance and sing with every step, Bluebird will show you the way.
Blue Jay:
Blue Jay is highly adaptive and will teach knowledge of survival in this world and in others. He will guide in the proper use of power to utilize abilities to their fullest potential. Blue Jay will aid in this discovery and developing personal power, awareness and higher knowledge. Blue Jay helps balance the earthy realm with Spiritual, teaches courage and tenacity along with ingenuity and resourcefullness. Are you listening to your intuition and instincts? Are you balancing your gifts? Blue Jay will teach much for he will show how to master the abilities you are learning.
Buzzard-Vulture:
Buzzard or Vulture teaches the power of purification of the mind, body and spirit. Vulture aids accomplishing tasks through great patience and vision, using your sense of smell and discernment, and how to glide and soar with your own energy. He teaches efficiency in actions and promises that changes are imminent. He shows how to restore harmony of thoughts and feelings so one can reach new heights with little effort. Buzzards will aid in uncovering truths, clarifying previous conceptions, and allow to see and hear subtle hidden qualities using intution and awareness. Buzzard can teach confidence and the ability to stand with dignity and soar with clarity and purpose. He shows how to seek a new and heightened vision while increasing sensitivity. It is time to soar above your perceived limitations. Are you currently undergoing an internal death and rebirth cycle? Are you ready to assert your actions from your ideas? Buzzard will will aid in transforming knowledge to bring the unconscious to conscious and teach how to soar above it and bring the transformation you are needing at this time. Are you ready for these lessons of awakening?
Cardinal:
Cardinal Medicine renews vitality in life and returns joy, brilliance and balance to the mind, body and spirit. He awakens spiritual transformations, intellectual insights and heightens intuitions and perceptions. Cardinal aids in manifesting dreams and ideas by focussing intentions where it's needed. He adds color and balance to life and demonstrates that everything you do is important. He aids in understanding and helping you find your own song in life. Are you doing what needs to be done or should be done? Pay attention to your diet. Are you eating balance meals; too much or not enough? Cardinal can teach moderation in all things and can help in finding a healthy balance of physical and spiritual. Do you have enthusiasm for a project or idea? Are you voicing your ideas? Are you listening carefully to others and your surroundings. When you listen to Cardinal's lessons, he will teach you strength in creativity and productivity with discernment and balance.
Catbird:
Can teach ways of communicating:listening and "singing" your own song in life, also care and tact in how you speak.
Chickadee:
Cheerful, bird of truth, mind mysteries, joy, heals/balances/opens perceptions, teaches about voicing impressions and expressions. Chickadee teaches to use our voice and the power of small things along with small ideas. Are you sharing your thoughts and opinions right now? Chickadee can show how to express ideals with timing.
Chicken:
Fertility energies, enthusiasm, new growths, balance patience with effort and rewards.
Condor:
Teaches how to accomplish tasks through patience, vision and riding the thermals of life to maximize your energy powerfully and efficiently, teaches lessons that change is imminent. Condor will help with any changes. Condors can show how to nurture, protect and tend to ourselves to avoid the drudgery and ruts of life. Are you taking yourself too seriously? Are you allowing and going with the flow. Time to relax? Changes happen, it's up to us and the lessons of Condor to help adapt.
Cowbird:
Teach a time of renewal, new endeavors, creative thinking, pay attention to actions in relationships.
Crane:
Justices, longevity, feminine energies, gives proper focus in all endeavors.
Crow:
Crow is a harbinger of change; spiritual, mental and emotional. Life, death, rebirth, transition magic, watchfulness, look for opportunities coming up, aids in ability to move spiritually and physically. They teach the power and balance of light/dark and spiritual/physical. He teaches to create and manifest things in our lives, all of life is waiting. Crow announces a newness on the horizon. Are you aware of the nuances in life? Are you listening to signs around you? Crow can give strength and show you how to maneuver in intuitions and insights.
Cuckoo:
New beginnings, trust inner self and intuitions, teaches to look deeper for solutions.
Doves:
Messenger of Peace, love, joy and gentleness, prophecy, maternity, awaken to promise of future with clarity, dove shows us how to walk between the physical and spiritual world, aids us in tapping our creative energies and stirring the emotions. Are you listening to the messages at this time? Doves bring hope of a new beginning and will show there is peace arriving.
Ducks:
Emotional comfort and protection, teaches how to move w/grace and comfort in actions, emotions and thoughts, aids in balancing the mind and emotions - the physical and spiritual
Eagles:
Creation, mental-spiritual-emotional swiftness, healing, dignity, strength, courage, wisdom, healing and insights, awareness of surrounding, aids in seeing hidden spiritual truths and higher balances, illumination of spirit, stronger and quicker in actions, responsibility, shows how to connect with intuition and higher spiritual truths. Are you willing to soar to new heights at this time? Are you ready to be involved with your creation and manifestations? Eagle teaches that you can achieve balance and intuit the winds of change while remaining connected and grounded.
Egret:
Teaches to stand in the physical and spiritual, healing, emotions, bridging the heart and mind, sharp, direct and to the point.
Falcon:
Power of insight, agility, discernment and how to attach opportunities in life, discern when and how to strike when needed. Falcon teaches swiftness with control and exactness in movement. Timing is everything for falcon. Is it time to take chances? He will teach timing in your spiritual and physical life. Falcon will teach to see your environment with mental and spiritual clarity.
Flamingo:
Teaches how to maintain balance and movement through the emotions, aids in intuitive filtering and spiritual discernment, helps in bringing color and vivacity into ones life along with increasing community activities. Is it time to bring new life; concepts, ideas, thoughts or people? Is it time to work alone or with groups?
Finch:
Energy amplification, new experiences, more active life with increase in potentials, aids in recognizing the spiritual and physical aspects of all things, helps you recognize your own voice, sporadic and tenacity and the ability to be quick and observant. Finch teaches to awaken to your surroundings and aids in the connections to family.
Flicker:
New rhythm of growth, healing love, insights, intuitions activated, perceptions change.

Goldfinch:
Awakening to nature spirits, helps w/endurance in transition of physical to spiritual, aids in understanding the power of your voice and your own song. Goldfinch teaches the value and importance of changes, healthy family resolutions along with balance and harmony in dealing with people. Goldfinch will teach you to awaken to once hidden choices.
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Goose:
Questing call, travels, imagination, communication, imagination is stirred, teaches how to move along ones spiritual path and the power and strength of community efforts, aids in finding happiness and joy
Grackle:
Can teach discernment in expressing emotions, helps balance the head and emotions.
Grosbeak:
Teaches a time to heal wounds for harmony, relationships evaluated, time for forgiveness and caring.
Grouse:
Sacred dancing and drumming, higher rate of consciousness, opens energy to rhythm of life and circles of nature, time and the self. Grouse shows how to make transitions and navigate through life's transitions in the Great Spiral of the Medicine wheel. Are you aware of the cycles happening right now in your life? Grouse teaches awareness of the energy around you and how to drum in the music of your life. It is time to revitalize yourself and dance the dance of creation.
Gulls:
Subtle lessons in behavior and communication, teaches to read people more effectively.
Hawk:
Hawk teaches visionary power and clear sight with strong observation habits while using patience. He is a sign showing how to ride the winds of change, creativity amd the power to surrender oneself to Spirit's guidance. Hawk clarifies reality and reitterates that one is on the correct life path. He aids in truth and illumination, gives a sense of guardianship and watchfulness and reiterates wise and important of opportunities are opening up. His swiftness, wisdom, leadership and strength in actions will guide with honor, integrity with grace and beauty. He will show how to see more in life from a higher perspective of truth. Hawk will show you how to fulfill your soul's purpose. Be ready for a greater intensity to life for Hawk will guide you in the mind, body and spiritual aspects of your journey.
Heron:
Determination, balance, follow your own path, aids in seeing boundaries and security in exploring the mind and emotions. Heron teaches about self-esteem and balancing life's daily tasks, helps look deeper into aspects of life, brings out innate wisdom and shows how to become self-reliant. Are you connecting to Mother Earth regularly? Heron teaches that grounding yourself in the earth, spiritual and emotional insights will become clearer.
Hummingbird:
Ecstatic, love, happiness, beat of life, miracle of joy of living, shows endurance so you don't burn yourself out, teaches ability to heal, enhances awareness with an ability to move and act accordingly. Hummingbird shows how to accomplish what seems impossible and how to bring the miracle of joy back into your life. Do you need to bring more color and vivaciousness into your life? Are you extracting the joy throughout your day? Hummingbird reminds us to find that happiness in all things.
Kestrel:
Speed and action of thoughts must be done with a balance mind and heart, patience to act at the opportune time.
Kingfisher:
Prosperity, love, warmth, peace, prepares you for something new, exciting and wonderful
Loon:
Awakening of mind and spirit, can show how to make things manifest from our dreams and ideas. Listen, look and pay attention to subtle nuances that are coming into your life. Loons provide the knowledge of solidifying the imagination and making one aware of the power of dreams. Aids in discerning fact from fiction, reality from illusion. Are stuck in a dream world of what you want rather than what is true and real? Loon gives guidance by awareness of the unconscious process of creating and imagining. Pay attention.
Magpie:
Proper use of knowledge, intelligence, use what you have, chances for advancement with knowledge
Martin:
Teaches cooperation, establishing peace, shows team work and community action
Meadowlark:
Cheerful journey into the self, teaches journey is a quest not the destination
Mockingbird:
When Mockingbird appears to you it is time to sing a joyous song of life. With one of the prettiest vocalizations of the bird family, his medley of calls is a culmination of many other birds, likewise, your song is a medley of circumstances, experiences and those that surround you. Rapid succession is events are about to unfold, if they haven't already. Experiences will expand your repertory profoundly. Mockingbird teaches the art of adapatibility and going with the flow. He is about following your soul purpose and recognizing innate abilities. Communicating is part of what Mockingbird teaches. He also flushes negativity with his voice. Are you using your song to bring joy? This animal is also a fierce protector of its environment. Are you watching your territory for those that come to close? He will teach fearlessness and strength. Even with strength in defenses your song matches few to bring joy and harmony to many people. Mockingbird will teach how to accomplish this balance.

Nuthatch:
Nuthatch teaches grounding of spiritual energies along with faith and trust in the realms of spiritual and physical. Nuthatch shows how to move in many directions in search for spiritual and mental "food", sometimes head first is needed but rest assured, Nuthatch will also show how to hang on with amazing agility. Nuthatch is also a bird of ingenuity. Perhaps it is time to be creative and find solutions in new areas? Do you need to crack something open before your reap rewards? Nuthatch can demonstrate rebuilding or refurbishing your own dwelling to suit you better. Is it a mental/emotional overhall or a physical/construction one? In any case, he will bring attention to details in moving from one phase to another. It is time be sharp and aware.
Oriole:
Oriole shows new occurrences in life and brings a sense of joy to the world. He helps discover the inner child and the relation to all things in the nature realm. Orioles have a beautiful song and will teach you to sing your own song from the tree tops. It may be time to pay attention to your diet. Are you eating fruits and vegetables? Oriole will teach how to make these better food choices. Orioles are master weavers using surrounding resources. Are you utilizing your own resources? He will teach to use what is available and show you other possibilities. Oriole eggs are uncubated 11-14 days so be aware of the wonderful opportunities in this time period and take them when the appear. Oriole will teach by listening to the heart, you will sing your song with the joy of many possiblities.
Osprey:
Osprey teaches many lessons; how to streamline your life, how carry a heavy burden, and how to dive in with pinpoint accuracy. Osprey will demonstrate the power of keen eyesight and specializing in the ability to tightly grasp your object firmly with finesse and tenacity. He shows that patience and expert timing is needed. It is time to be aware of your inner guidance which is the "sun's direction" - the sun will show the direction in which to strike so pay attention. Osprey shows that after the initial "splash" of your endeavor, situations and issues will naturally fall into place. Osprey teaches strength and finesse. It is time to trust what Osprey is telling you. Perhaps you feel out of your comfort zone? Afraid to change or of opportunities? Worried of what others think? Osprey demonstrates that you CAN put your head under the emotional water and still survive! It is ok to feel. He will also show how to build a foundation in the spiritual and physical and to ride the current of life in both worlds enabling a balance of peace and harmony. Osprey also teaches of streamlining our thoughts and emotions that also facilitate balance this within that propagates outward. These are valuable lessons to be learned.
Owl:
Owl is the Mystery of silent wisdom, heightend vision and hearing and the ability to pinpoint subtleties of motives, actions and people. He teaches the power of silence and contemplation and the balance of waiting and acting. When action is taken it is swift and exacting. Owl teaches the ability to extract secrets from within, so listen carefully. He also aids in clearing deceptions - within and without. Are you trusting your instincts about people? Are you listening to your surroundings? Do you have patience? Owl has much wisdom in teaching how to see and sense the world around you along with determination and patience in waiting for the opportune moment.
Oxpecker
Oxpecker birds have the ability to perch expertly on others ideas and ventures. The know how to "ride" through life and its circumstances to form a mutual relationship, whether it be with people, animals or everyday issues. Oxpecker has the balance to maintain stability in all areas. This bird is an expert at "digging things out". This animal has a natural alert system for protecting the host animal. Are you using your voice and communication abilities to the best of your ability? Are you utilizing your skills? Perhaps it is time to observe. He can teach how to get to the root of any problem or situation which may be benficial to many. He can also show how to take care to not cause more harm than good. He teaches a balance of a parasitic vs symbiotic behaviors. The art of give and take. The Oxpecker teaches how to have a strong direct flight and when landing, how to have strong feet to solidify your potential. Oxpecker has many valuable lessons and skills to teach.
Parrot:
Parrot teaches listening to all of nature and awakening to the language within using intuition for more open communications. They bridge understanding and will show you a deeper subtle harmony inherant in all things. Parrots show intelligence, good temperment and a sense of diplomacy. Do you have color and spice in your life? Are you listening to discernment in communications? It is time to be creative and express your ideas and make life vivid either by being bold and vocal or being quiet. Parrot will teach the quality you need to capture the color, the joy, the magic in life's endeavors.

Peacock:
Peacock will teach the power of watchfulness and the strength of mental, emotional and spiritual foundations and the structure and balance of those qualities. He allows greater wisdom to be accessed along with the awareness of the many different aspects of beauty that surrounds you. Peacock attunes us to see the entire moment with no past or future and instills confidence and dignity. There is an air of showmanship with Peacock so it's time to take pride in your endeavors. Are you showing your talents like you should? Are you seeing with your many "eyes"? Pay attention to intuition for there are many facets opening up. Peacock will help endurance of spiritual and physical matters.
Pelican:
Pelican demonstrates the power of reflection and insight, buoyancy in life and how ride the air currents of life. He teaches to rest and relax in spite of life's heavy weight. Pelican balances use of good fortune and abundance with responsibility and priorities. He has the ability to navigate emotions and aids in recovering what is lost whether it be emotional, mental or spiritual. Are you siezing the moment and enjoying what is before you? Do you recognize the abundance you already have? Perhaps it is time to count your blessings? Pelican aids in tapping into your feelings and putting them to wise use all the while peacefully balancing the world on your shoulders.
Penguin:
Penguin teaches grace in emotions and actions, endurance in life, time to pay attention to your dreams, thoughts and ideals are tempered with patience and endurance. In dreams he teaches how to move freely, be more aware, and change the course of events. This lesson also applies to waking life, teaching you to move and navigate with empowerment. Penguin helps navigate the realm of emotions and the depth of our unconscious. Are you ready to dive the depths? Do you understand where your emotions are coming from? Penguin will show you the balance of moving freely with an awareness of your choices.
Pheasant:
Pheasant teaches about fertility and sexuality along with lending insight and growth within family situations. He aids in bringing healing to family matters with a renewed sense of closeness. Perceptions of old wounds have a chance to be reconciled as Pheasant will show the way to verbalize forgiveness and compassion. Pheasant also teaches the art of concealment and the power of perseverance and confidence. Is it time to surface with thoughts, ideas and opinions or a time to strategically wait patiently? Are you taking the initiative? Pheasant shows the balance of hide-and-seek of the heart, playing hard-to-get in love interests and understanding that new relationships are forming.
Pigeon:
Pigeon teaches many lessons of home: love, security, fertility and family. He teaches us to remember home life for answers and the importance of family communication with a sense of togetherness. Pigeon shows how to bring peace, love and understanding to situations and teaches us the art of communication and cooperation. Is it time to call a family member or take a trip home? Are you listening to the hints of family members? Are you compassionate toward others? Perhaps it is a time for forgiveness? It is a time to express appreciation and gratitude of brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and parents for family brings us unconditional sense of belonging.

Quail:
Quail teaches about mysticism and enlightens you about your soul name and purpose. He is about nourishment of the soul, family, teaches how to elude problems, spot danger, and safety issues. Are you spending enough time with family? There are safety in numbers, perhaps you need to socialize? Quail also aids in awareness of dangers and gives you the quickness and camouflage you need in time of crisis. Are you blending in? Should you at this time? Quail will show you much about movement and taking opportunities when they are right. Allow quail to teach you this fine arts. It is time to be aware of what is going on around you.
Raven:
Raven is about the magical act of creation, internal magic and transformation along with miracle of a rebirth. Raven tells us to be aware of omens that become a harbinger of the mystical and exotic. He can show how to stir life without fear and teach to balance life's playful aspects. Raven also brings in the light of awareness and knowledge with opportunities of great changes that are in store for you. Raven will teach how to usher in these new energies. He shows how to dive into the depths of the inner being to illuminate the true self. Are you ready to uncover past conflicts and long forgotten emotional issues? Raven will teach how to transform your spirit. From the deepest part of you healing begins. What has been in darkness will now emerge into the light.
Road Runner:
Road Runner teaches the ability of mental sharpness, quick thinking and fast responses and reflexes and knowing when to strike quickly and efficiently at ideas with timing and precision. He will show the correct direction to take with proper uses of timing and speed in order make quick changes. Is it time to slow down or speed up? Are you being agile in thoughts and opinions? Roadrunner aids in physiological and behavioral adaptations along with conservation of energy when needed. Are you ready for a burst of flight in mental, emotional, physical areas? Are you balancing incoming and outgoing energies, mental and emotional areas, diet and exercise? Road Runner will show how to adapt the fast approaching movements with harmony and grace.
Robin:
Robin signifies stimulation of new growth and renewal in many areas of life. He teaches that any changes can be made with joy, laughter and a song in the heart. Robin shows how to ride the winds of passion within your heart and become independent through this change. Robin will teach you how to move forward with grace, tenacity, perseverence and assertion. Are you letting go of personal dramas? Ones that no longer serve your higher purpose? Are you exercising compassion and patience in mental, spiritual and emotional areas? Robin will teach how to incorporate new beginnings with faith and trust in the process. It is time to believe in yourself and use the inspiration that is given. Listen carefully. It is time sing your own song for a new period in life force abounds.
Rooster:
Rooser is a Guardian, watcher and protector of the family. He is keenly aware of the surroundings within the physical and spiritual realms. He stimulates insights and forthrightness and confidence. Rooster has enthusiasm with optimism and will teach you the same. It's time to open to the great mystery of the pasts to find your hidden self. Rooster will enlighten your path to take notice of your hidden powers. Time to welcome the sun with your voice and communication abilities with poise, confidence and assuredness. Rooster will show the power of pursuasion and influence to accomplish endeavors. Rooster will aid in the process of presentation whether it be physical meetings or spiritual ones, communicating your heart's intents and desires will be Rooster's lesson.

Seagull:
Seagulls are spiritual messengers that demonstrate that a higher communication with guides is taking place. He shows how to see above situations with a higher clarity and teaches that there are many perspectives to consider. Seagull shows a sense friendship and community and the cooperation that is needed for the whole to operate successfuly. He teaches how to ride the currents of the mental, emotional and physical worlds. Are you going with the flow or fighting it? Are you cooperating with others? Are you open to your guides? Seagull can teach you many lessons of looking, living and being. It is time to listen and watch for the nuances and timing of action.
Sparrow:
Sparrow aids in opening the eyes to our self-worth and instills dignity and empowerment. He teaches the importance of voice and communication and the timing of exertion and retreat. It is time to sing your song in all that you do. Sparrow teaches cooperation and sharing responsibilities whether at home or work. Are you helping or should you be helping or working more in some area of your life? Sparrow aids in survival instincts by sharpening intution to make proper choices. He will bring to awareness any old tendencies so that you can realize the newer more conducive means of being. Sparrow teaches assertion so that you may survive in spite of any circumstances with a balance of joy and empowerment. Are you ready to be like Sparrow?
Starling:
Starling teaches lessons of group etiquette, social standing an family relations and how you appear to the world in those relationships. He will show the nuances of the art of communication and vocalization which needs to be clear and expressive. It's time to speak your voice. Starling can show how to be a fierce competitor to achieve goals along with using all the resources available to do such. Are you balancing your feminine/masculine qualities? It is time to accomplish tasks early and not wait until the last minute. Are you clinging to an idea, perception, people too tightly? Starling will teach much about sensitivity to others and working as a unity either in this world or another and will instill a sense of protection and hope.
Stork:
Stork aids in new beginnings as there is a spiritual and/or physical birthing taking place. He will aid in carrying the new birthing of ideas, thoughts and new ventures to where they need to be for Spirit's plan. It is time for actions in areas in your life as Stork teaches to move in air (mind) and land (body) with a balance of relaxation. He instills a sense of calm and peace through the process. Stork helps in solidifying and strengthening the domestic fronts as well. Take notice of communication abilities and the attitudes and emotions that your words hold. Stork will show how to carry your new peace into all areas of your life.
Swallow:
Swallow teaches the power of objectivity, community fellowship, and communications in a group environment. He can teach discernment and proper actions to avoid threats with tenacity, style and class. Swallow shows how to think quickly, react appropriately and use the power of thoughts to manifest ideals. This animal will aid in your in own nesting instincts to create something from nothing. Ingenuity, determination and innate skills will help capture what is necessary for you to succeed. Swallows are masters of the air and will show how to move with utmost grace with agility and style. Are you moving with the flow of thoughts and ideals? Are you working in cooperation with others? Swallow shows how love and communication paired with trust can do the most good. It is time to renew the environment around you and ride the favorable air currents and tailwinds to stay above anything that comes your way.
Swans:
Swans show true beauty of self, expression of the power of grace and how the inner beauty of others is reflected within you. He aids in awakening your inner power for spiritual progression and developing intuition. He shows how to move through emotions along with sensitivity and empathy towards others. Swan teaches awareness to move in spiritual and physical realms along with healing and transformation for you soul growth. Are you listening to your heightened intuition? Are you trusting your hunches and feelings? She teaches the mystery of song, poetry and communication with grace and style and illuminates the beauty within. It's time for you to know more about your beautiful self, your self-worth and the awareness of the love within your heart. It is time to express yourself with grace and style.

Swifts:
Use of speed and agility in daily life, accuracy, use opportunities to their best potential, fluidity of thought and emotion. Swifts can teach how to join together with others either for protection or for communal joint efforts to accomplish tasks and goals. They show how to have a warm demeanor under icy conditions of others. Swifts will teach timing of when to approach and when to retreat along with heightening this intution to avoid the storms of life. Are using current resources? Swift can show how to recycle your resources into something new and exciting. They will aid in mastering the air with expertise, exactness, even ferocity when needed to go the endurance and distance that is called for. Are you ready to go the distance? Are you taking time to shelter and care for yourself against mental and emotional stress? Swift medicine teaches how to maneuver in the air with graceful acrobatics.
Turkey:
Harvest time, makes us thankful for all blessings, shows adaptability in all areas of life, energy of sharing and gift giving, teaches us how to harvest items with patience, show us how to expand our thoughts to attract we need, there is a time for everything so patience is necessary for there is a time to fly and a time to be grounded. Turkey teaches the vitality of life and how all is sacred. It is time to listen to your higher vision to achieve goals whether it be spiritual, physical, mental or emotional. Turkey will aid in the exchange and transformation of such perceptions.
Vulture-Buzzard:
Buzzard or Vulture teaches the power of purification of the mind, body and spirit. Vulture aids accomplishing tasks through great patience and vision, using your sense of smell and discernment, and how to glide and soar with your own energy. He teaches efficiency in actions and promises that changes are imminent. He shows how to restore harmony of thoughts and feelings so one can reach new heights with little effort. Buzzards will aid in uncovering truths, clarifying previous conceptions, and allow to see and hear subtle hidden qualities using intution and awareness. Buzzard can teach confidence and the ability to stand with dignity and soar with clarity and purpose. He shows how to seek a new and heightened vision while increasing sensitivity. It is time to soar above your perceived limitations. Are you currently undergoing an internal death and rebirth cycle? Are you ready to assert your actions from your ideas? Buzzard will will aid in transforming knowledge to bring the unconscious to conscious and teach how to soar above it and bring the transformation you are needing at this time. Are you ready for these lessons of awakening?
Warbler:
Expression of ideas and self, center and focus your energies, socialize, enjoy life, movement, progression and expansion of ideals and endeavors. Warbler will teach how to diversify and expand your surroundings and feel comfortable in doing so. He can teach how to sing your soul song to achieve what you need to in order to survive. Warbler shows how to endure and use patience and tenacity for your best interests. They are noted for their songs so are you singing to the best of your abililty? Warbler shows how to raise your voice with confidence. Are you moving in the direction you need to go? Listen to Warbler, his song of the heart will guide you. Listen carefully to the music.
Woodpecker:
Teaches us how to connect with the earth and how to ground ourselves in nature, shows us Rhythm, fertility, earth's heartbeat, increase of mental/physical activities, beat of life. Aids in our ability to find deeper meanings and hidden qualities of patterns and coincidences. Are you drumming and creating your own beat? Woodpecker will show you to accomplish this safely by awakening new mental faculties. He teaches to balance the spiritual and mental aspects with the physical world for harmony. Woodpecker shows tenacity, patience and straightforward actions to accomplish this. Listen carefully.

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BIRD DIVINATION

Divining With BIRDS

In Ancient Greek and Roman augury, the study of the movements of wild birds was taken very seriously as a method of predicting future events and the best courses of action to take.

In fact, Crow divination is still practised in parts of India.

We as humans can also use this knowledge, but how can the movements and behaviours of birds (and animals) relate to our personal lives? More importantly, how can they alert us to matters not accessible to our conscious mind or predictable using the evidence currently available?

One way is to interpret the significance of different movements made by certain creatures at a particular time, using the set meanings that have been given to the movements and proved reliable over the centuries. The meanings will act as a basic template or framework, which will indicate particular areas of our life that need attention or about which we have doubts or unanswered questions.

Our unconscious minds can then flesh out and adapt this template with knowledge that is not accessible to the conscious mind, using symbols that are triggered within us by the divinatory process we are undertaking. This will then become a valuable, but relatively inaccessible store of knowledge.

This is based upon the premise (as expressed by the psychotherapist Carl Jung) that no action is accidental or random. Therefore, using psychokinesis or ‘mind power’, we can somehow influence where the birds are focusing on, will fly or land, simply by concentrating on them. This basic information can give us clues about the best possible path to follow or decision to be made.

Even if you do not believe such psychic influence is possible over a particular aspect of nature, you can still use bird divination as a way of focusing your thoughts and accessing hidden wisdom that we all possess to find the correct course. Put another way, the questioner’s unconscious wisdom already knows the correct course of action, but is unable to convey this to the conscious mind except through an outward sign.

Observing bird flight is only the first part of the process, and the experience opens a doorway to the seeker’s deeper wisdom that has been awakened by focusing on the experience and suspending logic for just a few moments. It is like switching from the left logical side of the brain, to the more intuitive area on the right. Either during or after the event, images or words may appear in your mind, perhaps while you are walking, relaxing or during a dream at night. So what appears to be a basic ‘fortune-telling’ message is expanded in the seekers’ mind, or explained in the dream or on the daydreaming plane.

The more you learn about birds and the way they behave, the more easily you can combine natural observation with your intuitive (or prophetic) powers/talents. In this way, if a bird or flock of birds acts strangely, then you may be able to deduce that they ‘know’ something that you do not about changes in the weather or an impeding natural event.

Farmers and those who live and work closely with the land are often gifted in reading animal patterns, and abide by their messages.

Bird augury works on the principle that birds are closer to nature than humans and therefore more sensitive to invisible energies. Their physical actions express approaching prevailing energy – such as earthquakes – before even the most psychic human is aware of it. Variables include the kinds of birds – assuming there is normal a variety in your garden or wherever you are working – their call or song, the size of the group, how and where they fly and land at the moment you ask your question and whether this differs from the way you would normally act.

In all forms of divination, it is the feelings and impressions you experience deep inside in response to an external omen that is the key to gaining knowledge.

Spontaneous bird appearances can also have meaning. In the official and generalised interpretations of bird augury through the ages, an owl tapping on the window is interpreted as foretelling the death of an emperor, or at least a difficult period for the residents of the house. But dig deeper; this unusual phenomenon (tapping on your window) may be pointing out to you that the answer to your problem is very close if you just open your eyes; an owl tapping suggests your should ask someone wise – and close to you – for help and guidance.

You can practice bird divination with absolutely any bird you see anywhere. From the beginning, it is quite important to build up your connection with the birds with which you will be working most often. The-Witches Cottagese could be pigeons and starlings in a town square, sparrows in the garden, cockatoos in the bush, seabirds on the shore or birds on an urban playing field … anywhere
If possible, set up a garden bird feeder or two to encourage local birds to visit. Feed the birds regularly in your chosen place and they will know where to come for a free feed. Sit and observe them in the early mornings and evenings. Watch them in the midday sun. In time, you will know if their behaviour is usual or unusual as you become more accustomed to them.

Flocks of pigeons are especially effective for divination as they are often composed of birds of many different shades and they are constantly landing and fluttering off. This will give you a readily available, large selection of birds on which you can base your predictions.

Watch birds in flight through half-closed eyes, focusing on the patterns of silver and blue made by their collective energy fields or auras. In this way you can learn to merge with the essence of the birds and so be able to obtain psychic as well as physical impressions more easily. A pair of good binoculars is essential equipment so that you can continue to monitor the birds in the sky after they have flown away.

DARK AND LIGHT

Where there are more than one species of bird present, or differently coloured birds within the species (males and females often differ dramatically) a predominance of lighter birds landing and remaining on the ground indicates that it would be beneficial to take immediate action. Darker ones, however, suggest delay.

If you make a decision, the arrival or movement of a light-coloured bird would tell you to act. A darker one would tell you to wait.

DIRECTIONS

Birds flying in the right-hand area of the sky as you are standing or sitting indicates a smooth passage in any venture and that confident action should be taken. Birds flying on the left indicates delays and perhaps suggest waiting or remaining silent for the time being.

Birds flying straight towards the questioner indicates that happier times are coming. Those flying away, especially if there is no apparent reason for them suddenly taking flight, suggests that the next few days are a time for tact and caution, and for making plans rather than embarking on new ventures.

HEIGHT

The higher the flight of the bird (or birds), the more favourable will be the omen. If a bird flies directly upwards, then the venture should achieve swift success with little effort required.

If the flight is horizontal or veers up and down with the bird landing and flying off, then landing again, you may need to persevere and not be deterred by initial obstacles.

CHANGING COURSE

If a bird suddenly changes direction, there may be sudden changes of heart or inconsistency from those close to you. It may even imply that your own doubts that need to be examine.

Getting to know the birds around you and studying their behaviour will assist you in ‘opening up’ your intuitive abilities, enabling you to tap into the energies of the Universe. Practicing bird augury is a fascinating doorway into predicting personal life issues as well as impeding natural Earth events and disasters.

Take heed of the messages from the birds.

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