Oh, glad I didn't do the read before you changed your mind! For once, all the distractions came in handy! :)
For parenting, I drew Quetzal. The powerful, driving message of this bird is freedom, freedom above all things, even life. The quetzal also carves its nest out of dead or sick trees, has large eyes adapted well to the dim light of the forests it lives in and has thick feathers to protect fragile skin; this bid teaches about the complexity of natural, biological adaptation, and is also linked to plant growth.
Hah! For meditation, you got Falcon! "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Reality may not be what you think it is. The sky, which seems blue and seems black and is no color in the end because it is not a thing, but an emptiness, is the true abyss. This bird, distant King and fighter, understands the infinite. The falcon is a wild thing that can be tamed, willing to make a home wherever one is offered and do what comes naturally to it in exchange.
I love the Falcon card, of course. :-) Do you have thoughts about the Quetzal as it relates to parenting? And is it okay to post the reading verbatim on my LJ?
I have some vague thoughts based on what I know is going on with you right now, but I'd be able to interpret better if I knew specifically what you were thinking about when you asked. And it is completely okay! :)
For you, I drew the Curlew. A timid, wary bird associated with death by natural causes, melancholia and being awake at night, wandering. This is the insomniac's bird. Curlew is also predictive of rain.
Heh. This is pretty appropriate for the whole household lately. Probably doesn't help that I'm down with a particularly nasty sinus infection and not thinking straight. :) <3
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For parenting, I drew Quetzal. The powerful, driving message of this bird is freedom, freedom above all things, even life. The quetzal also carves its nest out of dead or sick trees, has large eyes adapted well to the dim light of the forests it lives in and has thick feathers to protect fragile skin; this bid teaches about the complexity of natural, biological adaptation, and is also linked to plant growth.
Hah! For meditation, you got Falcon! "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Reality may not be what you think it is. The sky, which seems blue and seems black and is no color in the end because it is not a thing, but an emptiness, is the true abyss. This bird, distant King and fighter, understands the infinite. The falcon is a wild thing that can be tamed, willing to make a home wherever one is offered and do what comes naturally to it in exchange.
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