Robin's Egg Blue ... Throat Chakra

"The robin lays a distinctive powder-blue egg.  This color is a color that is often used to activate the throat center in humans.  This is a center associated with will force and creativity.  The robin egg reflects the innate ability to assert the will force to create new growth.

Ted Andrews

ANIMALS SPEAK 

While walking yesterday, I watched an array of color float by me in the shape of birds.  I seem to always see Cardinals which always remind me of my once mother-in-law who was a very impressive woman, now deceased.  I also came across a powder blue Robin's egg that had fallen to the sidewalk and cracked.  My first reaction was to feel sadly for the poor little bird who would not survive, but my second wave of thought was wondering what the egg symbolized. 

When I returned home, I immediately found my Ted Andrews book which in an invaluable dictionary for all creatures great and small.  I knew that a Robin was a symbol for spring and for new creation.  While reading, I was reminded of the song the Robin sings.  The book states we all have songs that we need to be singing.  It frees our soul, lifts our spirits, and increases personal empowerment. 

There are seven main chakras or vortexes of energy in our body, spaced up and down our spine.  The fifth chakra is the throat chakra representing our ability to speak our most inner thoughts and honor our personal wisdom.  For instance, if someone has a sore throat, he or she may ask,  "What am I not saying?"  Either in the professional or personal arena, we frequently do not speak our truth.  This causes disharmony within our body, mind, and spirit.

Currently, I am venturing out with Deciphering Dreams for others.  Dreams contain information reflecting our feelings, fears, and desires.  I have always had a broad information about dreams and have studied interpretations.  I kept dream journals for 6 to 7 years learning amazing things about my self.  So now Spirit seems to be nudging me to share this ability with others.  I am being called to use my throat chakra in new ways.  I need to speak out what I know in an attempt for others to understand themselves.  So this new creative attempt is very exciting, but also challenging. 

I am thankful for finding the little blue egg to encourage me to articulate my silence and share what I know.  Spring is here and I am called to sing my song supporting new creative efforts.

A Leeson from the Ants

"Life is priceless

even to an ant"

Liu Xiaobo

JUNE FOURTH ELEGIES

  

Ants do not necessarily bother me, but I just as soon not have them in my house.  When we lived out in the country with four kids, we would frequently find a trail of ants headed for the melted popsicle or spilled kool-aide.  Thankfully, I have not had to battle the ant brigade for numerous years.  The other day, however, I noticed a big black carpenter's ant crawling near my computer.  Odd.  I picked it up, and carried it outside.  Then yesterday, I noticed another large black ant crawling at eye sight on the curtain behind my computer.  That is odd.  Carried this one outside, hoping it wasn't the first one I had brought outside.  So today, when another one appeared (one per day for four days) I turned to my Ted Andrew's book, ANIMAL -SPEAK, The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small. 

The keynote for ant:  Industrious, Order, and Discipline.  Apparently, ants can teach us how to harness our energy to recreate our lives.  It teaches how to work well with others and for others, how to remain focused, without neglecting other important things.  Based on the colony of ants and individual ant behavior, rewards follow through personal effort.

This is a wonderful reminder for me.  I have a project I have not worked on for over a year.  My interest in this project has been rekindled, and I want to get back on track.  It is going to take organization and discipline to complete this labor of love.  Too often, I put off writing until I have a larger block of time or when I am feeling more energized.  These thoughts are simply excuses to cover the mask of fear or unworthiness.

I find no matter when I begin writing, my energy flows and my passion surges unless I throw up my personal roadblocks to prevent my needed accomplishments.  I  do not like to work under pressure, but doing what I love truly is not pressure.  My ego will play numerous tricks on me to become distracted which results in my feeling unproductive with my writing. 

The ants easily display the sense of concentrated activity, patience, and endurance with successful results at the end.  I have recently committed to a new discipline which will actually bring order to my day.  Like time management  I will end up with more free time without guilt every day. 

Oh, and the black carpenter ants ...  I have not seen any more since I realized what they symbolized.  Message received, loud and clear.

The Need To Be Outside

She turned to the sunlight
    And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
    "Winter is dead.”

---A.A. Milne

When We Were Very Young

 

The coffee was in the final stages of brewing while I stood by my kitchen window surveying the damages made by the twelve inches of snow last week.  My eyes fell upon a rabbit, the first I had seen this spring.  Rabbits are a symbol for fertility and new life.  I was aware of the squirrel not far off and wondered when the hare would notice it approaching.  When the rabbit froze in position, I knew the squirrel was being observed.  Swishing its long tail, the squirrel boldly came closer and closer.  Without an instant of notice, the rabbit darted off making quick and rapid turns, clearly leaving the squirrel behind. 

According to ANIMALS SPEAK by author Ted Andrews, we learn from the rabbit the ability to take advantage of opportunities that may only present themselves for brief moments.  We must be able to recognize movements within our lives and be fast in  our reaction.  Squirrels are representative of busy activity and preparedness while displaying balance between work and play.    Squirrels pose the question of being too active or not active enough or just erratic, running around accomplishing nothing. 

Dissatisfied with my search, I poured my first cup of java  and returned to the window.  The honeysuckle bush had been filled with buds prior to last week's snow.  I had been concerned the wet snow was too heavy on the branches, but it seemed fine now.  I was happy to see a robin in the bush and I listened for a song.  Robins symbolize the spread of new growth or the initiation of creativity.

I continued to wait by the window in hopes of spotting a male cardinal to make my morning backyard survey complete.  The cardinal symbolizes renewed vitality through recognizing self-importance.  I needed to see this dash of red to add color to my life, and to remind me all that I do has importance. 

The cardinal was a 'no show', so I contented my self with the reminder that winter had officially passed, and signs of spring would soon be everywhere.  I threw on my coat and walking shoes, deciding to extend my search for spring through-out the neighborhood.  April had finally arrived and I had the need to be outside.

The Red Cardinal with a Message

The cardinal"s presence reflects a time
to renew our vitality.  It reflects lessons

in developing and accepting a new sense

of our own true self-importance.

Ted Andrews

Animal-Speak

Sitting in my youngest son's back yard, there was a bird out of sight but near by that kept getting louder and louder.  I finally asked my son, "Can you see that bird?  What kind of bird is it?" 

Just then with great drama, the bird flew very close to us and we could all see the beautiful male cardinal.  He settled very closely to us for all to see and he sang his little heart out.

I reminded my son how very much his granny loved cardinals.  No one in the family ever sees a cardinal without thinking of her.  My granddaughter's mom promptly told me that her grandfather was an avid cardinal admirer and her family always thought of him when a cardinal appeared.

Then this story was told to me:

My granddaughter was sitting out back with her mom.  They were enjoying a beautiful spring morning when a cardinal appeared.  The mom returned to the house to get something and when she returned, she found my granddaughter standing directly below the cardinal.  The bird was singing and my granddaughter was talking to the bird.  Not just talking, but having a conversation.  I was told that this was not a brief interlude, but a communication that carried on for a length of time.

I believe that God is in all of nature and that wisdom, insight, and understanding flow through flowers, trees, birds, and animals.  I also believe angels surround us or guides, however you want to label them.  I feel with all my heart that children's 'imaginary friends' are indeed spirits.  Little children can see things just like we could when we were little, except the grown ups told us otherwise so eventually we forgot.

My granddaughter just turned three years old, and I would like to believe that her ancestors paid her a visit that morning in the form of a red bird.  I sense that she was being reminded that she was not alone and that she must have courage to be who she was meant to be. I am delighted to know that she already was communing with nature!





All That Surrounds Us

Feminine magic of camouflage

shapeshifting

and

invisibility

SYMBOLISM OF FOX

by Ted Andrews

A few days ago, I was in a friend's car and we were taking a short-cut through a residential neighborhood.  I happened to glance out the passenger window and my eyes discovered a young red fox standing in a driveway. It is my belief that when an animal appears in your life, there is symbolism behind the appearance that can directly apply to your personal life. 

As soon as I returned home, I took out my trusted book resource, ANIMALS SPEAK by Ted Andrews and read the definition and characteristics of the fox. The fox is a totem that speaks of the need to develop or the awakening of camouflage, invisiblity, and shapeshifting.  

In a broader sense, the Fox represents "a new world opening up, that the process of creation is beginning.  It reflects that the world is growing and shapeshifting itself into new patterns that will be beneficial."

This dictionary of animal totems states, "Practicing and using camouflage is something everyone should learn to do.  Working to blend in with surroundings, to come and go unnoticed, moving silently about without revealing your intentions is all part of what a fox teaches."

The information suggests adjusting your frequency and intensity of your energy field so that you harmonize and blend in better with others.  The intention is to hear and see things that you otherwise might not. 

A fox has great ability to move into other dimensions in the outer world ... in water or up trees ...  and embodies feline energies for greater movement and expression.  It indicates "a need to assert the feminine, creative energies."

Credited with acute hearing abilities, the fox reflects a deeper ability to hear a great distances.  Symbolically, this depth of hearing reflects an ability to hear what is not being said or whispered. "This ability is also tied to clairaudience, the ability to hear spirit."  The keen sense of smell determines who or what needs to be sought out. It may be associated with higher forms of discrimination and discernment.

The fox has a love for home and only takes one partner.  The cubs, not having vision or hearing when born reflects to humans who may have had great tests in childhood with the instinctual abilities in the art of survival. 

A fox will go out of its way to avoid potential danger.  It is very patient and uses non-threatening techniques to capture its prey.

So in summary and in application to myself, I have learned to pay attention to the world as it is changing around me.  It would be beneficial for me to adjust my energy and blend more amongst others, observing, listening, and seeing what normally might not come into my awareness.  There might be a need for me to use my creative energies in a more assertive and positive way. 

Human beings, animals, and all of nature has its own language. We can live more fully in our world if we can learn to dialogue with all that surrounds us.