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Reference Source:
Ted Andrews - Animal Speak
Birds
are very
special creatures,
they live with us and we live with their
magnificent
resonating swirl.
Wherever you are, notice the
Beauty of Nature
around you, reflected in the
majesty of Flight.
Birds
to the ancients are
Gods.
They fly high above the
realms of Mortals.
Birds
have a very ancient mythology about them,
understanding their ways, their characteristics,
both from a natural and supernatural perspective
leads to great
wisdom within the Self.
Anything you study, you study Yourself for You
and the study are the same, all flowing from
within your
sacred and divine Self.
In the
Norse
mythos,
Odin the father of the Gods has two
messenger ravens (Hugin)
Thought and (Munin)
Memory, symbolizing the cohesion of experience,
for thought is circular and infinite, blending
into the
sphere of Knowledge
and experience.
In
the
Central American
songs of the Ages,
Quetzalcoatl, the god of the Air, the
brilliantly plumed feathered serpent, relates to
the serpentine energy of existence, a reflection
of our own
Kundalini as it journeys through the
seven chakra centres.
In
the glowing
Egyptian
stories,
Horus, wearing the mantle of the
Hawk
symbolizes the flight into the Spiritual realms
of
Self
Knowing
and
Self
understanding.
Ma’at,
the
Egyptian
goddess of Balance, Truth and Justice is shown
with an ostrich feather. After You pass over,
You are led into the
Hall of Judgement
in
Duat by
Anubis, the protector of the
Underworld
and your
Heart
is weighed with the feather of
Ma’at
on the scales of Justice. If the feather
outweighs Your
Heart
then You are led into the next phase of eternity
by the entwined couple
Osiris and
Isis and continue your journey of
exploration. If however Your
Heart
is heavier than the feather then You are
devoured by
Ammut, a female demon who is part lion,
hippopotamus and crocodile.
The
opening sequence to the original film "Clash
of the Titans"
shows
Lord Poseidon flying back to
Olympus as a gull, clearly demonstrating the
link to birds and the
higher divine
in us all.
Birds
evolved from reptiles more than 140,000,000
years, although these figures are also
approximations. Discoveries have been made,
artefacts have been dated to show that human
life existed on our planet more than
TWO Billion
years ago.
The
oldest bird currently known is
archaeopteryx,
in Greek meaning “ancient
wing.”
Birds
are symbols of
transcendence
and a reminder to rise out of baseness into the
realms of the divine, into that point of
Heaven
within, the still-point, balance within the
Temple of the Self.
Birds
reflect the union between the conscious
and unconscious, symbolizing the achievement of
full realization.
These magical creatures awaken within us our own
flights of inspiration and
magical starlight.
Birds
are primary symbols for
initiation into Air,
the period in which you open your awareness to
higher Knowledge
and in doing so connect with the infinite
strands of the
Universe,
beyond the confines of
Time
and
Space.
Air
reminds the
Beholder of Life
to ride the winds and currents of change and
evolution, the ever growing path of Your Life,
the
path
of the Divine,
for You hold Life within Yourself and are the
Creator of Yourself.
Birds
have their
unique
and
sacred qualities which
teach
about our own
unique
traits and abilities.
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Crow |
Intelligence, watchfulness, magical
and past-life connections. Please
scrap this idea that the crow is an
evil creature as it is far from
that. The majesty of this beautiful
bird with its shiny black coat,
symbolizing the maternal Nature of
the Universe is awe-inspiring. Make
every moment of Life count, for this
is a precious gift. |
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Blackbird |
Omens and mysticism. Only You can
decipher the meaning as it’s your
journey, there is no manual, you
write your own path moment to
moment. |
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Duck |
Maternal energy, graceful, comforting,
protective. Enchanting! |
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Eagle |
Capable of reaching Heaven’s point,
great perception, sharpness,
bridging worlds. |
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Magpie |
Occult Knowledge, doorway to new
realms, wily and wilful. Again this
nonsense with magpies associated
with thievery is beyond me. It will
be interesting to make a study in
order to discover the source of all
this contention. |
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Owl |
Silent wisdom, nocturnal vision,
healing powers, magical. When I was
visiting our family in Devon, my
Uncle Janek and myself were driving
and an Owl swooped very close
towards the car, One of those
extra-ordinary moments! |
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Robin |
New growth, new beginnings,
maternal, protective, messenger.
Such cute and cuddly creatures. They
bring smiles aplenty. |
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Swan |
Sensitivity, emotional, dreamer,
mystical, longevity, maternal. |
Symbolism of the Pigeon
The
feisty
Pigeon symbolizes the return to the
Love
and
Security
of the
Home,
breathing in the
eternal sways of the Heart,
contained within an
All-Year
round cycle.
Pigeons possess
gentle
and
loving
archetypal energies and have extra-ordinary
homing sense
abilities. They teach how to find our way back
Home
when we feel lost.
They
drink by sucking up
water from their beaks,
and hence reflect the ability to draw on energies
from the
Home.
They
teach us to
remember early
Home Life,
to remember who we are and where we come from,
the foundations for
Life.
They reflect
fertility
of
Home
and
Family,
denoting safety and security within
Nature eternal.
Keep
your eyes open and more importantly, allow your
inner eye (Ajna)
to see beyond the gates of
Death and Rebirth,
feel the
flow
of
Universal
lightness. |
