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Me thinking

            Scale Wing.  Lepidoptera.  The red admiral was everywhere on Sunday.  My kids caught two in their butterfly net.  The last one had a damaged wing.  We gave it honeysuckle nectar.  It was weird, the stamen magnetically stuck to the red admiral's face.  We watched four eagles soar so high heading to the south in a kind of group.  We also saw a hummingbird fly and sit on a branch and look like a leaf and then whiz by my husband's head.

The number 4, according to Animal Speak, means-foundations, patience, builder in the positive aspect.  The direction, south, means-purification, faith, strength, awakening inner child, overcoming obstacles, playfulness, change, protection, self-sufficiency, trust, resurrection.  The "keynote" for eagles is-illumination of spirit, healing and creation.  Eagles "will teach a balance of being of the earth but not in it."  The eagle has been associated with Jupiter and in Egyptian hieroglyphics, is a symbol for the letter "A".  It is "also a symbol for the soul, the spirit, and the warmth of life."

"The fire of the sun and the clear water are opposite elements brought into harmony in a manner that elicits a change."
 Needs for those with eagle totem-
1, Creativity is a must
2, "[F]acilitate the alchemical process with your life."  what does this mean??
3. "[W]illingness to use your passions to purify (flying into the sun) and to use your abilities even if it means being scorched a little."  And what does THIS mean?!
4. "[W]illingness to seek out the true emotional aspects of oneself and immerse yourself within them."  ...Ok...guess I need to deep dive study to understand what this may mean for me if anything at all.

"The feet of the eagle have four toes.  Four is a traditional symbol for keeping oneself grounded and laying a solid foundation..."  "This reflects the need to stay connected to grasp and utilize the things of the earth."

Meditate on the figure 8.

Four

You princess charmant, you red admiral
Thank you for picking all those honeysuckle to sustain our broken winged friend yesterday
Today is your day of power!
I know you will use it wisely, have fun magic eyes. xoxo

 

 

I'm into vultures now and Eugene Grasset

A vulture on board; bald, red, queer-shaped head, featherless red places here and there on his body, intense great black eyes set in featherless rims of inflamed flesh; dissipated look; a business-like style, a selfish, conscienceless, murderous aspect-the very look of a professional assassin, and yet a bird which does no murder.  What was the use of getting him up in that tragic style for so innocent a trade as his?  For this one isn’t the sort that wars upon the living, his diet is offal—and the more out of date it is the better he likes it.  Nature should give him a suit of rusty black; then he would be all right, for he would look like an undertaker and would harmonize with his business; whereas the way he is now he is horribly out of true.    ---Following the Equator, Mark Twain