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Alan Watts: How Do you Define Yourself?
This is a beautiful, spectacular amazing video.
It wakes up old things – and makes me reach for new things.
In just 4:40 minutes!
The Maiden – Mother – Crone is represented by the 3 phases of the moon – waxing, waning and full moon.
The Maiden is the crescent (or the waxing moon) – inexperienced, innocent, virgin. Lithe, flexible, beautiful, desireable.
The Mother is the Full Moon, fertile, giving birth, nourishing, sustaining. Strong, powerful, in the fullness of her life.
The Crone is the waning moon – no longer fertile, she is wise and mysterious, with access to the darkness of the new moon, where death is reborn again.
Rosellas are loyal lovers. There is a Persephone-like story of Rosellas parted by death, but joined again – because they mate for life. In a dream, they point to a dream come true – but it won’t come true the way you think! Rosella reminds you to pay attention to everyday beauty.
From Deb Hill (with permission):
Owl is wisdom and brings clarity and discernment. Owl is symbol of being able to navigate any darkness in your life. It can give you strength to open your eyes and look into the shadows. It can show you things that might otherwise remain hidden. Owl is also feminine and helps one to embrace your inner goddess.
Many owls speak of a new spiritual community, but choosing one owl to follow, speaks of the need for discernment, wisdom, of choosing your path on the journey.
Barn Owls are amazing animal spirit guides. They bring a host of gifts to those with whom they choose to work. Ted Andrews writes at length about attributes of the Barn Owl in Animal Speak. He characterizes Barn Owl as a teacher of many mysteries, including stealth, clairvoyance, clairaudience, spirit contact, and mediumship. Andrews adds that Barn Owl can also help those with whom he works to establish a strong link between the heart and the mind.
RavenDreamer also speaks at length about Barn Owl’s attributes, stating that those who have the Barn Owl as a guide are likely to have a polarizing effect on people, stimulating either interpersonal attraction or discord. RavenDreamer adds that Barn Owl people may have very different ways of doing things.
Ravenari augments the conversation by commenting that Barn Owl folks tend to hear the truth across the worlds and also tell the truth, but like RavenDreamer, Ravenari asserts that people with Barn Owl as a guide can sometimes evoke social discord, either through their actions or simply how they are perceived by others.
Many birds together:
I was reminded of the way all the birds come together at Lake Eyre, when the waters flow. When the emotions are moving, and overflowing with fertility, then, all the birds, of all the nations of birds, come to this place. This place was in you.
Drongo – Spangled Drongo (in Australia)
Spangled Drongo is a migratory bird – but unlike most, he comes to Queensland for winter, and goes to New Guinea for summer. It’s called a “backwards migration” and gives the drongo his reputation as a head-shaking fool.
BUT – he is not stupid – he catches his food on the fly, insects in the air mid-flight!
In our lingo, a “drongo” is a fool, but in shamanic terms, that is sometimes the best teacher of all. In North America, we call it “coyote teaching” or backwards teaching, where the best way to learn is with the fool, the clown, the idiot. The king keeps a fool on hand, often the only one who will tell him the truth.
Backwards learning is sometimes “the hard way” as the fool often shows you what not to do. Sometimes you need to “play the fool” in order to learn the same thing. It could’ve been learned another way – but not for you. The backwards way is a deeper way of teaching, once you have learned the lesson, it sticks, or, at least, you recognize it better next time around!
From Scott Alexander King’s Animal Dreaming:
Black cockatoo — The void
Bowerbird — Dowry
Brolga — Dance
Butcherbird — Arrogance
Crow — Law
Cuckoo — Freeloading
Dove — Peace
Eagle — Spirit
Fig-bird — Conception
Frogmouth — Secret keeper
Galah — Joy
Hawk — Messages
Ibis — Sacredness
Jabiru — Vigilance
Kookaburra — Healing the self
Lyrebird — Genetic memory
Magpie — Balance
Owl — Deception
Raven — Magic
Wagtail — Motion
From Deb Hill, with permission:
Spider is the inventor and can symbolise balance. Its 8 legs represent the medicine wheel.
Spider lets you examine your imperfections from a different perspective – one focused on creating transformation from within.
Squids are strong and curious, but would rather avoid confrontation (non-violent). Squid medicine includes rapid escape from danger, using smoke screen (ink) to distract and cover, and intelligence. Apparently they have acute hearing, as their predators (dolphins and whales) use echolocation. Squid lives in the deep ocean – so this is an emotional working.
Squid medicine speaks that emotions are important, and that it is wise to use camouflage for protection.
But in looking at the spider – I was taken with the resemblance to the Tibetan Buddhist dorje – it represents the lightning bolt of enlightenment, a male principle (the spider is more feminine). But the dorje is inseparable from the bell, which is the female object.
Dorje:
and dorje and bell:
Spider showed me where she is (in my body):
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Chakra Spider by JanCarolBelow the waist, she is gathering information and transmuting it, creating it for above the waist. Above the waist she is looking with insight and healing love, and sending it below the waist.
This is still crude and I’m trying to refine and understand it better. It’s about dantien and heart, grounding and heart. Connection between the grounding, social, exterior side of myself, and the interior, spiritual side of myself.
Spider often invokes fear – like the famous Marianne Williamson quote: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
Spider invokes fear because we fear our own ability to create, our own power.
