(Published by me originally in WordPress.)
Interesting birds, buzzards. I've seen them soaring aloft for most of
my life but never in the numbers I have since moving to my current
home. I remember hearing about the buzzards circling
over something
dying from the old westerns like "Gunsmoke", "Paladin", which it appears was actually called "Have Gun Will Travel", "Bonanza". I knew it was how you could find someone who had wandered off and was in peril from either "Sea Hunt", "High Noon", or "Lassie"...maybe from all of them.
Our
first summer here, I was outside one beautiful spring day mowing the
grass. I was on the riding lawnmower when something caught my attention
from my peripheral vision. I glanced across the yard and street and
there, above the neighbor's house, was this dark cloud. It stopped me in
my tracks! I know anyone driving past probably got quite a kick out of
the old woman on the "John Deere" with her head back, mouth hanging wide
open. Come to think of it, I'm rather surprised no one called an
ambulance thinking I'd gone catatonic. Anyway....up above the neighbor's
house, just kitty-corner from me, was an airborne black spiral.
My mind
couldn't even discern what it was for a few moments (are we entering stroke territory here?)
it looked like a black tornado of quite some height. Buzzards! Hundreds
of buzzards! They were flying, or more accurately, floating in lazy
circles stacked upon one another in ever larger circles (like a tornado)
and there were so many of them, the sky was black. I can only guess the
number must have been around 300 to create such a sight.
I sat,
mesmerized, wasting gas, adding unnecessary toxins into the air from the
exhaust, too stunned to even think to turn off the key. That, for those
who know me, is very unlike me. I really try not to add to my carbon
footprint and I try to shrink it wherever I can. Just trying to give you
an idea of how incredible this sight was. Since then, the Buzzards
visit me twice daily during the summer months. I learned that they are
migratory birds after seeing that huge amassing in the fall as well.
But
this took place over the summer months, at first it kind of creeped me
out. But as I grew to enjoy watching those birds wafting in their lazy
circles overhead I began to grow curious about these creatures.
Sometimes I had only three birds whom I rapidly began to think of as my
"core" family of birds. Often, there are 30-plus floating overhead.
Several other people have happened to be here and witness this phenomena
and they were equally awestruck...but with only 30-50 birds. It seems
no one is ever here the day those numbers soar to multiple hundreds. And
THAT, my friends, is a truly amazing sight.
As
the phenomenon continued, it began to impress upon me that there must
be something special about the area where I live. Well, something even
more special about it than I was aware of. It took me almost 20 years to
move to this area even after I had been visiting the nearby town and
working here, it was a while before we actually made the move here. I
have always felt the air here was different, magical, like there were
some sort of vortex here. (I don't really even know what a "vortex" is,
except it sounds really cool.)
"vor·tex [ˈvôrˌteks]
NOUN
ORIGINmid 17th cent.: from Latin vortex, vortic-, literally ‘eddy,’ variant of vertex.RELATED FORMS
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Hah!
Well, there we have it!!! And here is a great picture that, if you
imagine it black and made of birds...well...that's the buzzard tornado I
see a couple of times a year...
Yeah.
Like this. Only made up of big black birds. So...maybe the "vortex"
I've always sensed here was created by the buzzards? Maybe the buzzards
are also attracted here by an invisible vortex? I don't have any answer
to that, and I'm just a little surprised at myself that it took me this
long to put those two things together. Thank you blogosphere.
Back to the story...a couple of my friends have Native American roots and they told me to look up what the significance of buzzards (scroll down to where it reads 'p.284' then the second paragraph) is in spirituality. You can do a search online and find a lot of different links. I learned that it is believed that they carry healing energy to healers (I am a massage therapist and energy worker-second degree Reiki practitioner and level 1 Ama-Deus® practitioner. (I'd
like to give Beth Cosmos a plug here, she is an amazing woman and I am
so thankful that our paths crossed and I was able to receive Ama-Deus®
instruction and activation from her.) That made me pretty happy. I know it sounds weird, but I swear, I can feel when they are nearby. They do bring a quietude and an amazing energy with them.
In
light of the information I found about vultures, I began to realize
that they were one of my totem animals (along with Ravens, elephants and
hummingbirds). During this time with the vultures in support, I have
found clarity (don't ask for clarity until you know you are ready for
it, because it comes once asked for and has many ramifications of its
own); my life path has taken a new shape, and a new chapter of my life
story is underway. I believe Vulture is here to help guide me and to
bring me the healing energy I need to get me through this next part
of my journey.
Part
of my journey has been learning that I am a healer. Another part of my
journey is learning about the ability we all have of non-verbal
communication. This has come to my via an amazing elephant (story to
come at another time), crows, buzzards and the Internet which gives me
almost instant access to information I would have spent years accessing.
Thanks in a large way to Dr. Emoto, I have been playing with my interconnectedness to everything, including the vultures.
As
I sat in our breeze-way one morning, enjoying the day before it got
too hot, I noticed three vultures sitting on the fence about 25 yards
away. They were feeding on something just over the fence and it must
have been small because they took turns. As I marveled at how large they
are, the one sitting farthest to the left turned and looked at me. You
know that electric shock you feel when something or someone makes eye
contact? yeah, that happened. I had the feeling that "he" was looking
right into my eyes, so without saying a word out loud, I thanked him for
the job they do, and told him how beautiful he was in my eyes. I
wistfully wished for a nice sized feather with which to make a smudge
fan and he turned a little further, plucked a large feather (from near
his tail I think-they are pretty dark so it was hard to tell for sure
exactly where his beak was) looked me square in the eye and dropped it
on my side of the fence!!! Then, I had the sensation that he smiled at
me. The other two birds also looked my way and began preening and when
they flew off, I walked out to the fence and there were three beautiful
blackish feathers lying in the grass. I thanked all three birds and
respectfully gathered my treasures and brought them into the house with
me. I have not made the smudge fan yet, but I feel that this spring will
provide me with the perfect stick to use as a base.
So...vultures/buzzards,
ravens/crows, always in my yard or very near by. I believe they watch
over me and that they are assisting me through this part of my life and I
am so very thankful for them.
Please
feel free to enjoy the information you will find in the links
below. And please do your own searches on the animals that seem to
frequent your life.
Originally posted as a page on 3/24/2016 @ 13:31
Namaste :)
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