"The bird-sight?"
Lately I've been getting to know the Tuatha De Danaan better, and have also been meeting with a shamanic group (Native American influenced) for whatever the former can't answer. The medicine-woman remarked that I travel to the Otherworld so easily, I have trouble grounding myself in the physical world. Even though I'm making efforts to ground myself now, random spirits/deities just come up and say hello during my evening meditation. And if I'm explicitly open or forget to ground myself, they don't even wait--they drop by almost instantly, whatever I'm doing.
I asked the Morrigan and she told me, "You don't have trouble grounding--you have the bird-sight." I've only come across that term in one of my sources (Moyra Caldecott's Women in Celtic Myth), and I never really knew what the term meant.
Ogma told me that "You can't turn it off; the closest you can do is take a break." And since things are getting hectic with Thanksgiving and family issues, I asked if the Tuatha De or ancestors could keep quiet for a week. He just... laughed and went, "A week? You'd be lucky if you go ONE DAY."
Nechtan was trying to help me ground myself, and then he looked closer at me and went, "OHHH, you have the bird-sight. Well, sweetie, I can't really help you with that part."
And then Flidais introduced herself last night (the new arrivals are getting REALLY random now that my major issues are already being sorted out), peered at my face, and went, "Ooh, someone has the bird-sight!"
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So there are three main things I found out over the past few weeks.
1) The bird-sight seems to be a subset of second-sight; I asked Ogma if it was the same and he went, "Not quite." The Tuatha De and ancestors say that people with the bird-sight can see both the physical world and Otherworld at the same time--like, having one foot in both worlds as opposed to traveling to and from them. Either that, or they're barely a step away. I can't turn it off unless I have an extremely good reason, and apparently the Morrigan let me do so when I was both too young to cope with it and had no teacher to explain it to me.
And it's not necessarily "sight"; I'm mostly clairaudient and clairsentient. The important detail is how I can't turn it off, so instead of seeing people/things that aren't physical, I'm always sensing their presences and hearing their voices. Whenever I do get images, though, they're pretty clear.
However: A lot of the Tuatha have implied the things I'd be able to do as a possessor of the bird-sight; when Ruadan asked why I couldn't just filter everyone out if I was so annoyed with all the random arrivals, Lugh mentioned that "Pfft, she can't filter things out yet! She's only been learning about it for a couple months!" Ogma told me today that my father was fine (he hadn't answered my mother's calls for nearly two hours), and "When you can check on people yourself, you'll stop fretting about it."
Finally, Mom called his landlord and finds out that Dad just overslept.
Lugh's statement is obvious, and I can KIND OF understand Ogma's comment. I guess it means either an astral-projection or remote-viewing ability? Like, I'd be able to see things from a bird's eye view.
2) Unlike most people's travels to the Otherworld where they do indeed "travel" from the physical to spiritual worlds, trying to shut out the Otherworld feels like putting a blindfold on. And if I ever want to get rid of it, it would be like gouging my eyes out. Long story short: I was fatigued, had barely managed to handle a recent journey-gone-MAJORLY-wrong, and suddenly found myself in my meditation's "room," inches away from shoving something into my eyes. I managed to miss on purpose because I DEFINITELY didn't want to get rid of it permanently (I was mostly tired and shaken up), but the ancestors are still watching me just in case.
3) Spirits seem drawn to me because of it--for example, "random spirits/gods coming up to say hi." And a lot of them can instantly tell that I have it. The Morrigan waited to tell me, but has apparently known for a while, Ogma was also waiting for the right time, and Nechtan and Flidais immediately remarked on it. It's not just that I can see them, but they can apparently see me from a LONG way away. They give the vibes that having a combination of the bird-sight and imbas means I'm almost literally a spiritual beacon, and it tends to catch their interest.
And for some reason it's always "you have THE bird-sight," not just "you have bird-sight." Word-choice is really important for me since I'm a bard, so I asked what any Celtic terms would be. They usually tell me that knowing what it's called isn't the point (at least for now), as long as I understand what it is.
I asked the Morrigan and she told me, "You don't have trouble grounding--you have the bird-sight." I've only come across that term in one of my sources (Moyra Caldecott's Women in Celtic Myth), and I never really knew what the term meant.
Ogma told me that "You can't turn it off; the closest you can do is take a break." And since things are getting hectic with Thanksgiving and family issues, I asked if the Tuatha De or ancestors could keep quiet for a week. He just... laughed and went, "A week? You'd be lucky if you go ONE DAY."
Nechtan was trying to help me ground myself, and then he looked closer at me and went, "OHHH, you have the bird-sight. Well, sweetie, I can't really help you with that part."
And then Flidais introduced herself last night (the new arrivals are getting REALLY random now that my major issues are already being sorted out), peered at my face, and went, "Ooh, someone has the bird-sight!"
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So there are three main things I found out over the past few weeks.
1) The bird-sight seems to be a subset of second-sight; I asked Ogma if it was the same and he went, "Not quite." The Tuatha De and ancestors say that people with the bird-sight can see both the physical world and Otherworld at the same time--like, having one foot in both worlds as opposed to traveling to and from them. Either that, or they're barely a step away. I can't turn it off unless I have an extremely good reason, and apparently the Morrigan let me do so when I was both too young to cope with it and had no teacher to explain it to me.
And it's not necessarily "sight"; I'm mostly clairaudient and clairsentient. The important detail is how I can't turn it off, so instead of seeing people/things that aren't physical, I'm always sensing their presences and hearing their voices. Whenever I do get images, though, they're pretty clear.
However: A lot of the Tuatha have implied the things I'd be able to do as a possessor of the bird-sight; when Ruadan asked why I couldn't just filter everyone out if I was so annoyed with all the random arrivals, Lugh mentioned that "Pfft, she can't filter things out yet! She's only been learning about it for a couple months!" Ogma told me today that my father was fine (he hadn't answered my mother's calls for nearly two hours), and "When you can check on people yourself, you'll stop fretting about it."
Finally, Mom called his landlord and finds out that Dad just overslept.
Lugh's statement is obvious, and I can KIND OF understand Ogma's comment. I guess it means either an astral-projection or remote-viewing ability? Like, I'd be able to see things from a bird's eye view.
2) Unlike most people's travels to the Otherworld where they do indeed "travel" from the physical to spiritual worlds, trying to shut out the Otherworld feels like putting a blindfold on. And if I ever want to get rid of it, it would be like gouging my eyes out. Long story short: I was fatigued, had barely managed to handle a recent journey-gone-MAJORLY-wrong, and suddenly found myself in my meditation's "room," inches away from shoving something into my eyes. I managed to miss on purpose because I DEFINITELY didn't want to get rid of it permanently (I was mostly tired and shaken up), but the ancestors are still watching me just in case.
3) Spirits seem drawn to me because of it--for example, "random spirits/gods coming up to say hi." And a lot of them can instantly tell that I have it. The Morrigan waited to tell me, but has apparently known for a while, Ogma was also waiting for the right time, and Nechtan and Flidais immediately remarked on it. It's not just that I can see them, but they can apparently see me from a LONG way away. They give the vibes that having a combination of the bird-sight and imbas means I'm almost literally a spiritual beacon, and it tends to catch their interest.
And for some reason it's always "you have THE bird-sight," not just "you have bird-sight." Word-choice is really important for me since I'm a bard, so I asked what any Celtic terms would be. They usually tell me that knowing what it's called isn't the point (at least for now), as long as I understand what it is.