January 03, 2020
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galdrinSigns and portents ...
I've taken it personally that where there are usually 2-3 hawks in and around the area I call Foster's Hill each morning on the way to work, I hardly saw any all summer and fall. None since I spotted a dead one on the side of the road there at the beginning of summer. The remaining two disappeared - like they knew.
Replacing them are a pair of crows that were hanging around work all summer and into the fall. I had heard them cawing for a couple of weeks, when all of a sudden there they were - hanging around the newly planted sod or cawing from the light posts almost every day during the summer and fall. They were a huge, and a well-fed pair, too.
Now we are well into the winter months and Yule has passed. The pair of crows are long gone but there are now 3-5 hawks hanging around Foster's Hill again. Each morning and evening, on my drive into work and back home again, I see this 'family' of hawks perched on telephone poles, trees, fence posts, or hunting the area.
For all I've missed them over the past 6-9 months, their return restores my spirit.
I do have to wonder - I don't recall seeing a coyote at all ... I usually spot 2-3 during the year, but none this past year. Hopefully that will change, too.
I've taken it personally that where there are usually 2-3 hawks in and around the area I call Foster's Hill each morning on the way to work, I hardly saw any all summer and fall. None since I spotted a dead one on the side of the road there at the beginning of summer. The remaining two disappeared - like they knew.
Replacing them are a pair of crows that were hanging around work all summer and into the fall. I had heard them cawing for a couple of weeks, when all of a sudden there they were - hanging around the newly planted sod or cawing from the light posts almost every day during the summer and fall. They were a huge, and a well-fed pair, too.
Now we are well into the winter months and Yule has passed. The pair of crows are long gone but there are now 3-5 hawks hanging around Foster's Hill again. Each morning and evening, on my drive into work and back home again, I see this 'family' of hawks perched on telephone poles, trees, fence posts, or hunting the area.
For all I've missed them over the past 6-9 months, their return restores my spirit.
I do have to wonder - I don't recall seeing a coyote at all ... I usually spot 2-3 during the year, but none this past year. Hopefully that will change, too.
Expanded from LJ ...
Date: 2020-01-03 08:43 pm (UTC)Normally, I see them on the way in and on the way home. This year has been a bit depressing when the trio I used to see disappeared after I spotted the single dead one along the FM road.
I was expecting the birds to return in the fall, but they waited until December to show up, but on the plus side, there are five of them now.
Probably silly, but I got the feeling that I might have jinxed myself. This past year I had decided to try and look into and become more active in the local UU Pagan group, attending classes/presentations over the summer and starting to attend some of the major rituals. The jury is still out on what I think of the local UU Pagan group, but it is kind of nice to be among like-minded individuals - and this group is inclusive of all earth-centered paths, which is a plus.
Along that same line of thought, I bought myself a native-American style hand drum so I could learn spiritual drumming, a pair of hand carved bone feather earrings and necklace depicting the feathers of my favorite hawks, as well as a couple more bronze medallions from Amanda's Etsy site - stags, wolves, etc. All this because I still consider myself a solitary practitioner.
I say jinxed because I'd sworn off organized religions forever. Now, when I was actively looking into this local UU Pagan group, the drumming, etc. ... and my spiritual guides disappeared (the hawks and coyote), taken on new forms (the crow twins), and have come back two/three-fold (the 2020 hawk 'family'.)
... and I may be reading more into this than is really there. Then again, I don't feel that to be true. I do feel like it's a sign of something.