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As you can see from my previous posts I love the animal world. I see myself as the quiet observer while there are those of you who are more get out there and hands on. In life I seem to be more of an observer in general…a watcher. I watch and I see meaning in everything and then I marvel in the fact of how easy it would have been to miss a sign or a message and am thankful for every one I don’t miss but know that the ones missed do come again and again until I take notice.

Today was very much a snake day for me. Snakes are far from my favorite animals so a year ago when I found out one of my animal totems was a snake and I began having many encounters, in my waking life, in visions during meditation and even in my dreams, I was not exactly thrilled. To find this was a powerful animal totem to have comforted me very little I must admit.

Today’s performers were the black snake with a cameo appearance from the mockingbird. You will see below why the mockingbird has earned a special place in my heart.

Yesterday after seeing the TWO male cardinal’s I asked for further information through a sign. My other totem appeared, the Mockingbird, with it’s beautiful song. It landed on the fence directly in front of me and then did a couple of hops up and down turning until it was facing in the same direction as me and with it’s back to me. Often when the Mockingbird appears to me it does a turning around as though to show me it’s whole self as though for recognition…so I will know which bird it is. Then it spread it’s wings showing the color pattern. This is actually something a mockingbird does when looking for food. The white in it’s wings that shows when they are spread like that reflects the sunlight and alarms insect that around and when the insect move from being alarmed the Mockingbird can spot them…for food. This act shows an ability to stimulate a response in others and is a part of what the Mockingbird has to teach. It can help by teaching you to flush out injurious insects aka people in your life and teach you to hear the true song of others.

One of my favorite animal totems is the cardinal. The cardinal medicine includes:

• Courtship
• Fatherhood.
• Understanding the power of the wind.
• Finding your soul song.
• Renewed Vitality through Recognizing Self-Importance.
• Cycle of Power: Year-Round (often with rythm of 12-hours, days, months, and years).

Within the past few months on several occasions I have driven by a large grouping of Vultures and once again this morning I came across a large group of vultures. It even seems they are getting closer and closer to me. What I mean is, the first time I saw a group of them on the front lawn of an apartment complex but quite a distance from the road. Most recently at the entrance to the community pool in my subdivision and close enough to the road for me driving by to scare them off temporarily. They were having their way with a poor cat which I think had been hit by a car. That sight didn’t sit well with me and I actually tried to just put it out of my mind (except for saying a little prayer for kitty). This morning as I was driving  on a road that is behind my parents house (a short cut) I could see them up ahead. They seemed to be coming out of the woods on the left and crossing over the road to the right shoulder of the road where there was some sort of dead animal. I don’t know what animal because I didn’t want to look. They didn’t fly off this time and seemed pretty bold. One was crossing the street as I neared where they were and then after I passed I looked in my rear view mirror and the one that had passed in front of my car walked back to the middle of the road and I swear turned and just stood there starring in my direction. Creepy? Yes! lol.