I thought I would begin this blog with a little about my art work and the discovery of my power animal.
I do animal portraiture in pastels on sanded paper. For many years my work has focused on dogs, cats and farm animals but I have recently begun to do paintings of wild animals. I am currently working towards a one woman art show that is set for March, 2011, in New Jersey. Around the same time I began to paint wild animals, I began to focus on them during my meditation practice and then I started receiving messages from them. I received one life changing message from my power animal, the Red-tailed Hawk. Here is our story.
I was researching power animals in order to give a class about them and one day I noticed a Red-tailed Hawk calling to me in my backyard. I thought,” That sounds nice,” and went back to preparing for my class.
After that, I started to notice the hawk a lot; on my drives around town, on my walks by the river and in my back yard. Then one day on my morning run around my neighborhood, I saw the hawk in the distance. It headed right towards me, flying just over my head.
I stopped and stood still. The hawk circled above me three times. I could hear the hawk in my head and so I asked, “What? What are you trying to tell me?”
Much to my surprise, I heard a response, “I have a message. When you are ready, you will receive it.”
At this time in my life I was just starting to focus on my animal communication. I had not stepped out into the world to let others know about my ability. I was not ready. I was afraid of what relatives and friends would think. Maybe the hawk sensed that and knew I wasn’t really ready for my message. Thankfully she didn’t give up on me.
Months went by and I could hear my hawk calling and would see her from time to time. She was always in the back of my mind, so one day at work I was completely shocked to see someone carry in a hawk with a broken wing. I thought she was the most beautiful animal I had ever seen. I was in awe holding her, studying her face and her wings. She was just incredible. Even in what must have been an alien environment to her, she remained completely calm while we worked on her. She knew we were helping her, she knew her recovery depended on her co-operation and indeed, after a few weeks of rehabilitation she was completely recovered.
But what was my message? If I was supposed to receive a message from a hawk, this would have been the time. Why were so many hawks suddenly in my life? What did it all mean?
Then one day it all came together and I got my message. I was on my way home from work driving down the road towards my home. To the side of the road I saw a Red-tailed Hawk. I happened to have my camera, so I pulled over and got out. I walked right up to the hawk and asked if I could take her picture. She agreed. I got within 3 feet from her. Clicking away with my camera she decided that if she moved up on to a rock wall the photos would be much better. Click, click, click away with my camera.
I stopped and thought that maybe she was hurt. Maybe the carcass she was holding in her talons was stuck, wrapped around her leg. I moved closer to her and picked up the carcass carefully pulling on it. She looked at me and pulled back. I pulled again, she pulled back. I gave one more tug and she looked at me and released the carcass.
She gave me her food. She gave me an offering.
There was my message,“You are ready to communicate with animals. It is time to give your gift for others to learn and to help. It is time for you to go and follow your Divine Plan.”
It was that clear. I knew what I had to do, what I needed to do. The next day I booked myself to do readings in public. I started a website, had business cards made, started a FaceBook page, group page and now a blog.
The Divine has lead me and I am following. I ask no questions, I just do and it has all been good, very good. I am thankful and humbled by this gift. I am pleased and honored to share it with all who believe and want to learn.
I still see my friend the Red-tailed Hawk. She has a family now that she is raising in the woods behind my house. I hear her call; it wakes me in the morning. I thank her every day for the messages she has given me.
