An endless stream of error messages scolding from the monitorĪt the time, I was too close to events to see a pattern.A picnic table and two benches, all one piece, a deterrent to thieves.Here are four items on my list for a day in January 2014: I kept my own quarry for several months, until I buried the book with the rest, residue, and remainder of so many other creative endeavors. The hunt isn’t for pretty language, or even full sentences. In response, she taught me to keep what she calls “the quarry.” Each day, she lists ten things she has observed. Years ago, I asked if she could teach me to think like a poet. She’s also a poet with a passion for the natural world. My friend Carol Chaput is a fine artist who draws, among other things, owls and hawks. Hawks mate for life, so once you decide to commit to someone, the lifelong journey begins.” She suggests that to align with the energy of Hawk, take time to observe the little things in life. Carbone writes, “If you have just met someone, take your time and get to know the person through observation. Birds of prey don’t fly in flocks like geese or gather on the beach for a flash mob dance the way pink flamingos do. That kind of inward cleansing is something you must do by yourself. It’s in that cleansing that we can claim who we are, and that we can become, as Florida Scott-Maxwell said, “fierce with reality.” Just as hunters valued the hawk for its ability to see, circle, and hover over its prey, Druids valued the hawk for its ability to see what needed to be cleansed from a person’s spirit. Even as the hawk soars upward toward the sun, a metaphorical image of our quest, we know on some level that the answers we seek lie within. On their quest for healing, completion, and illumination, each in his own way asks: Who am I? Why am I here? The Knights Gawain (the Hawk of May) and Galahad (the Hawk of Summer), each one a masculine solar figure, go in search of the feminine Holy Grail. We see those qualities in the legend of King Arthur. When it came to the hawk, the gifts were nobility and stature, dignity and pride. The swan brought grace the raven initiation. Different birds offered different gifts, different tools. In The Druid Animal Oracle authors Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm write about how Druid shamans would enlist the aid of a spirit-ally to venture into other realms. That fearlessness makes them the ideal companions for shamans who travel to the realm of the dead to obtain cures, to learn the wisdom of animals, to honor those animals, and make alliances. Maybe a sense of confidence is what gives birds of prey their fearless quality. Maybe it’s the way hawk parents express confidence in their offspring. Once their young can fly, the parents stop feeding them and send them on their way. As parents, hawks practice tough love, or so it seems. That’s a good word to associate with hawk medicine. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.”įierce. She said, “You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. She was born in 1883 and lived into her nineties. I’m reminded of the words of the late playwright Florida Scott Maxwell. Working with hawk medicine awakens the vision we have inside us, the one about who we really are, what we really want to do with our lives. It takes courage to look at ourselves, at our family stories, with the keen eyes of a hawk and fortify the honorable qualities and remove the vermin. The hawk wants you to recognize the significance of the events in your life - including past lives.ĭid you give to someone, help someone, teach someone, inspire someone? Was that how you were treated?ĭid you take from someone, ignore someone, criticize someone, cheat someone, hurt someone? Was that how you were treated? When the hawk comes into your life, the invitation isn’t to your family. Even the most well-meaning parents do it. The hawk wants you to let go of unnecessary baggage, the kind that is heaped on us when we’re children. Where did you come from? Where are your roots? Who are your ancestors? The hawk wants you to see your life from a broad perspective.
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