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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Wow.  The Hawk came to me in a big way yesterday.  I’m still working on deducing all that it wished to convey to me.  It was late yesterday evening.  I work in a huge glass-walled building, so I have the delicious pleasure of seeing my winged ones often :)  Yesterday, as I sat at my desk, I looked up and saw a huge pair of wings through the glass across the building, directly in front of me. 

A HUGE hawk was landing on the tip-top of this skinny, leafless little tree.  It looked strange, it seemed like the little branch on that skinny tree wouldn’t be strong enough to hold the weight of this massive bird.  I couldn’t leave my desk, but I so wanted to get a closer look.  It sat there for quite a while, and I kept looking up at it with a big ole smile, knowing it was here for me :) 

Then I noticed something interesting…  There was a small sign a couple of feet from my desk that said “Special,” an item here on display.  As I looked at the hawk, I noticed that this sign was, from my perspective, directly below the hawk (even though the hawk was outside, maybe 100 feet from me).  I thought, hmmm, this Hawk is special :)

I thought about doing a post right then, but changed my mind…  I wasn’t sure I was going to do one, until I came upon a Hawk interpretation just now, and the synchronicity was so cool, I had to share.  Note, right before doing a google search this morning, and coming upon this hawk interpretation, I had asked my supervisor if he thought it had been a red-tailed hawk, and he said it probably was.  I think that’s the most common one around here.  Here’s the interpretation, notice the mention of “special” :)  (see source link below)

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HAWK

Power, Magic, Messenger

Hawk is the messenger, the protector and
the visionaries of the Air.
It holds the key to higher levels of consciousness.
This totem awakens vision and
inspires a creative life purpose.
A Hawk totem is filled with responsibility
because Hawk people seek the overall view.
They are aware of omens and spirit messages.

A Red-Tailed Hawk Totem is special. 
It has direct ties to the Kundalini, the seat of primal life force.
It is associated with the base chakra .
If you have this Totem, you be aware of and work toward fulfilling your soul’s purpose.
It reflects a greater intensity of energy within your life:
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual forces will all be strong within you.
The Red-Tail Hawk is a permanent totem — it will always be with you.

It is associated with the number “14″ with the Tarot card Temperance.
This card represents the teaching of higher expressions of psychic ability and vision.

Source:  http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/hawk.htm

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I shared another  very special Hawk totem  in a previous blog, and was stating that I felt the Hawk was a permanent totem for me.  Now I’m feeling even more sure that this is true.  Now some might feel that I had remembered the “special” from reading this interpretation from this previous post (which I’m only just now discovering is the same one), but if that’s true, how interesting that my environment played along with it by providing a “SPECIAL” sign (literally) right below this amazing bird :)

I also love the following site for totem interpretations.  Here’s the link and some excerpts from her elaborate Hawk page.

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“Many of the messages Hawk may bring are about freeing yourself of thoughts and beliefs that are limiting your ability to soar above your life and gain a greater perspective.  If one remains earthbound, then the possibilities of life are limited! It is this ability to soar high above to catch a glimpse of the bigger picture that is one of the aspects of Hawk medicine that makes it so valuable: If one is undergoing a difficult passage to know that just over the next hill is freedom and liberation if one keeps going can be a Godsend in supporting the person to keep moving forward!”

“For those who have difficulty attracting financial well being due to false or negative beliefs about money and success, Hawk can help to understand the true spiritual intent and purpose behind money and guide one in establishing new beliefs that are more joyful and abundant in nature.  Hawk can alert us to those times when we should NOT take action because we do not yet have all the information we need. For example, someone is thinking of about becoming involved in a relationship, personal or business, yet they get the feeling that something is “not quite right”. This needs to be heeded and Hawk sent forth to gather the appropriate information to help the person make the best choice. Sometimes the person finds that Hawk was telling them to steer clear for very good reasons!”

“Some with Hawk medicine find they have difficulty attracting the ‘right life partner.’ Hawk people may find that they tend to attract more “earthy” types who find the Hawk person’s need to “soar” disruptive or unimportant. This may occur because at a deeper level the Hawk person is fearful of soaring too high and crashing to earth Icarus like. In this instance, the Hawk person’s real issue is one of learning how to trust themselves and their medicine. Hawk people can pair well with more earth centered people because the earthy person can encourage the Hawk person to stay on earth long enough to bring some of their visions and ideas to fruition before soaring off to the Heights again. It can be very easy for hawk people to want to stay high above the earth and never bring their wonderful ideas back to earth where they and others can put them practice.
Since Hawks mate for life, the Hawk Person may need to accept that it may take them some time before they find the person meant for them yet when they do, it is well worth the wait! Otherwise the Hawk person may find themselves tied to someone and unable to free themselves easily because of the deep entanglements they have created with this other person.”

http://morningstar.netfirms.com/hawktotem.html

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Ah, and I just remembered another winged totem from yesterday.  A robin.  It was 12 degrees here (felt like 2 degrees per the news).  When I saw this single robin sitting out there on a branch, I thought, geez, how in the world does that little one stay warm in feels-like-two-degrees weather.  I dunno, but I feel good about seeing both of those winged totems yesterday.  Very “special” indeed :)

Peace,
Dove

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  This Nature Blog is awesome, I so enjoy his pics…  His recent one of the garter snake spurred my memory of all my snake encounters in the past while living in a wooded area, so many wonderful critter encounters there :)  The individual who encouraged me to live there told me there were no snakes – and I believed him (lol), and I actually didn’t see one for quite a while.  And, of course, my first encounter with one was with a monster of a snake!! 

On a daily basis, I would walk laps at the edge of the dense woods that surrounded this place — gawd, such delicious seclusion there.  For some reason I had the tendency to stay on this path, so it wasn’t long before I’d created a cleared (no grass) path.   One day I was taking my joyous, leisurely, totally private evening walk and to my horror I almost stepped on a HUGE (I’m talkin’ huge, babe) snake lying across (horizontal to) my path — no doubt enjoying my nice cool dirt path on its belly.   I screamed, um, just a little (heh), and I ran like hell to the house.  And I’m sure the monster-snake was equally horrified by my scream…and did its best to quickly hurry toward the safety of the woods. 

Granted, I only saw it for an instant (very close to it), but I’d say it was at least four inches in diameter and at least five foot long.  At least. 

Anyway, for quite a while afterward, I stayed indoors – for a ridiculously long time — or so it seemed.  The sight of that snake totally freaked me out.  But I missed my walks so much, I missed my other critter sightings, and so I finally decided I was going to walk anyway.  I didn’t see the monster-snake again for a long time — not sure how long.  But I did begin to encounter other,  much smaller snakes, only a handful in the on-and-off years that I lived there (covering about a decade).  But what I learned was that they invariably run, er, slither away rather quickly upon seeing me :) 

Yeah, I learned that they are equally afraid of us, and with that knowledge and experience, I kinda lost a lot of the fear I had about them.  I actually have a few fun memories of them.  One where the snake just about slapped itself silly up against the concrete foundation of the house when I came upon it, and clearly frightened it.  It then zipped under the porch, never to be seen again.  Another was when I was feeling playful upon seeing a tiny snake – it looked like it was checked with black and white.  I chased it (lol) up a cedar tree and as soon as it got on the trunk, it was like it vanished…  Ah, but my most enjoyable snake memory (and, I must admit I’m glad, there weren’t that many snake encounters) was right before I made a major move in my life.  My friend brought it to me and said he’d just found it under a rock — it was gray and orange.  It was maybe eight or nine inches long — and its mouth was tiny, but I still wouldn’t have held it without gloves :)   It was wonderfully enjoyable to hold it, because it was weaving in and out through my fingers.  I just loved that, and stood there for the longest time playing with it.   In the past, I couldn’t have imagined that I’d ever do such a thing.  I changed and grew so much while living there…

So what happened to the monster snake?   Well… One day, as I was walking my neat little dirt path, I suddenly heard something shaking in the brush of the woods — it wasn’t that far behind where I’d just walked.  I turned to walk back, kinda guarded, wondering what it could be.  As I took a few steps toward it, two HUGE wings rose up outta the brush (gawd, I miss that place) and upward it went.  I still don’t know if it was an eagle or a giant hawk.  It was probably a hawk.   I was only a few feet away from it.  As it rose up, likely not happy about my presence, up came what had to have been the monster-snake.  It dangled from the mighty bird’s claws.  Lifting the newly-deceased snake’s body was clearly a challenge, the bird struggled frantically to go upward.  I was mesmerized as it finally got up into the air.  It’s claws held the head end of the snake as the other end dangled – the dangling part about two or three times longer than what it held.  I knew it wouldn’t be going far like that.   It flew maybe twenty or thirty feet deeper into the dense woods, higher into the air than you would imagine it could with that load, where I think it felt comfortably safe from me.  And it quickly droppd down into the woods.  It was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

I invariably consider unusual things that happen to me as symbolic messages.  And I always try to see the message in the “highest” or most positive light.  This happened shortly before major changes began to happen in my life — a lot of dangerous situations, and yet I made it through (amazingly and, often, miraculously) without any real harm coming to me.  I’ve always felt I was protected…  The snake totem often represents transformation (major change) and the hawk totem can be about messages and protection.  I know I felt wonderful, blessed and safe after watching this.  Remember, this snake had represented something that I felt might harm me…

The following is a hawk totem interpretation that I just came upon in doing a search for it, and it definitely reflects the things that began to happen to me following that amazing sight.  It would also seem that’s true about the hawk becoming a permanent totem, it has come to me many times in various ways.  Hawks are awesome :)

 Dove

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HAWK TOTEM

Power, Magic, Messenger

Hawk is the messenger, the protector and
the visionaries of the Air.
It holds the key to higher levels of consciousness.
This totem awakens vision and
inspires a creative life purpose.

A Hawk totem is filled with responsibility
because Hawk people seek the overall view.
They are aware of omens and spirit messages.

A Red-Tailed Hawk Totem is special.
It has direct ties to the Kundalini, the seat of primal life force.
It is associated with the base chakra.
If you have this Totem, you be aware of and work toward fulfilling your soul’s purpose.
It reflects a greater intensity of energy within your life:
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual forces will all be strong within you.
The Red-Tail Hawk is a permanent totem — it will always be with you.

It is associated with the number “14″ with the Tarot card Temperance.
This card represents the teaching of higher expressions of psychic ability and vision.

Source:  http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/hawk.htm