Hummingbird Shaman

With the summer dryness, and the lack of sufficient water, the hummingbirds have not visited so much at the park.  I certainly enjoyed my last visit, and was not at all surprised to see my friend after a heavy rain.  Has there ever been a time that rain has been so welcomed? 

So these days most of my hummingbird encounters have been at my home, and with the addition of a feeder outside my office window I am able to enjoy the visits from my little friends more often, and still practice the artificial means of communication called “blogging”.  I appreciate the warmer days, and often the window is ajar, allowing me to hear the quiet talking of the little female who rests nearby in the lilac tree.  These graceful spirits visit during calmer moments, when thoughs flow in design, not by force.  Divine presence attracts the Divine.

This particular bird is new to me, and tends to be a little more chaotic in her movement.  With the feeder just outside the window they so easily spook by my reach for the camera.  Windows create an odd illusion, appearing as something that seems to have no boundaries, yet creates one nonetheless.  These illusions are not so easily adopted by those gentle little spirits of the animal world.  It takes the “consciousness” and active mind of the human to accept an illusion and call it “reality”.  Sometimes I wonder who has the clearer perspective.

The eclipse brought us more than glimpse into our hidden nature, it also seems to have brought the rain. It began with Saturday night’s thunderstorm, and has carried into a very wet day today. Still, there were brief spells without those sprinkles, so the walk in the off leash dog park took place.

I had been told earlier that they would be gone some day. It had been several weeks since my last visit with the hummingbird in the upper section of the park. I knew it was a matter of survival: the small stream that circles the park had long dried up, and so my friends had to move on to a more hospitable location. Then came the rain.

There he was, perched on the barren tree where he so often greeted me. “Hello, I’ve missed you”, I spoke out loud. “I missed you, too” came back in an image. I felt a strong wave of energy moving in my direction, and my heart softened with the warmth of the hummingbird caress.

“Take care, and love yourself”, was today’s reminder, “for it is in you that the presence lives, something we never want to forget”. What a wonderful story, so graciously offered. This was a story I would be proud to share. Welcome back my friend, I knew the rain would bring you.

I’ve mentioned a few times the four leaf clovers I had found while walking at the dog park. I’ve bounced some ideas of how we find these rare quad-leafed beauties. Statistics say that one in 10,000 clovers is a four-leaf. Fine, I accept that information. But there are many who have never found a four-leaf clover, and others who find them all the time.

In May I wrote about one such day of discovery. I found three that day, and another three the next time at the park. Aside from a short burst of luck around 25 years ago I have never been one to find these lucky symbols. Six in a couple of days was amazing. The next week as I was walking I glanced here and there for more without giving it thought. A gentle voice came to me, “why do you want them?” but there was no one around at that time, only my two dogs. “I want to have one for each student at the medicine bag class next month”, I said.

I turned to the other side of the walkway, and found one instantly. Then another. Within the next minute or two I found 18, not counting the small or broken ones. I stopped at this point, my psyche couldn’t take any more. When I included the ones found recently I knew that 24 students would be enough for this workshop.

Do I call this overflow of four leaf clovers a sign of luck? Yes, but its so much more. I blame my intent. I was determined to give them all away. The balance was established, and there I stood in the middle of the energy stream between giving and receiving. Funny how things come to us when we find that balance.

So here I am, preparing for another even. This Labor Day I will be assisting my Healing Drum Retreat co-teacher at one of her community events. We will be helping children make their own medicine bags, and in the act we’ll be teaching them about focus and intent. “Do you think the kids would like four-leaf clovers for their medicine bags?” Certainly. The request is back on the table, and on my last trip I found two more, even with the dryness and heat. More will come with the fall rains and new growth. But somehow they continue to magically appear.

Estee Taschereau is a Successful Living Coach and Intuitive Counselor. Private phone appointments are available for informational & self-healing assistance sessions.

Tomorrow we will complete a cycle with the second lunar eclipse of the year.  This is a partial eclipse, and for our western hemisphere it will be during the day.  From a clairvoyant view I understand this to be the tail end of an earlier eclipse, one that took place in February 2008.  The pattern created by this pairing of lunar events is the Sabian symbol meaning “butterfly with right wing more perfectly formed”.  I see it as the infinity symbol, bringing us gently through the curves of our whole experience, building upon itself like a stepping stone into our next level. 

We also begin a new cycle in the Mayan Tzolkin calendar, as of today.  This cycle brings us so many opportunities to find grace and flow within our life, offering us support and connectivity between our spiritual learning process and our worldly expression of that growth.   These interpretations, the Insight of the Day, will post each day.  As I look forward into the next cycle, beginning at the end of this month, I cannot help but notice the same universal support.

In my work with the hummingbird energies I’ve seen the same influence seeking to help us find joy and appreciation for our creations.  We can take any situation and perceive it in a different light.  The lunar eclipse serves us by shifting the energies on this planet, for the moon is a great influence on our global tides, and our emotional tides as well. 

Today and tomorrow, the day of the lunar eclipse, are wonderful opportunities to see in a new light.  Given all these influences in the light of allowance and permission to be, we may find a connectivity, even an alliance between the lunar eclipse, the mayan cycle, and our perspective on life.

This week I have returned to the Oregon desert for a working visit, which means sleeping within mere feet of the vulture roost.  This tree is the seasonal home to 30 vultures, give or take.  My first night here was a restless one, waking often to hear the breathing of the animals that had gathered in my room or notice a flickering light.  By early morning, just before dawn, each time I awakened I brought in awareness of writing a posting about the day as it appears in the Mayan Tzolkin calendar.

The date given in my dream was not in synch with this actual day, but my nocturnal writings did focus on Cib, the vulture.  In this current 13 day cycle Cib does not appear.  The last occurrence was July 31st, giving us 12 Cib.  The energy of this day was present to aid us in our expansion of thoughts by bringing understanding of where we have been and through this awareness we will have a better grasp of where we are going.

On this upcoming day, still months away, I look forward to seeing how this dream-state interpretation of two Cib unfolds.  The presence of source is best found not to the events that surround us, but in the offerings of the universe and how we carry those gifts into the world in which we live.

I could not have imagined earlier that I would dream of vultures, or write about them.  We never know where life will take us, or how our awareness will unfold.  To my surprise I found out that the vultures were sunning themselves, warming their wings in the early morning sun.  This day has truly been an adventure, and its only just begun.

This posting contains a clairvoyant interpretation of the Mayan Tzolkin Calendar, a spiritually focused calendar, presented by Estee Taschereau through her venue YinYangPower.com

I haven’t seen my hummingbird friends as much lately. There food is abundant in nature how, and so the feeders are not utilized nearly as much. I continue to change the food every few days to keep it fresh. Yesterday I filled a feeder, and then stood by the door looking out at the garden area. Suddenly the older male hummingbird flew onto the patio. He hovered at a distance, facing directly toward me, then moved closer, within a couple feet.

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He looked me directly in the eyes, offering me reassurance. “You may not see us, but we are here”. We must focus on our daily tasks, replenishing ourselves.

Yes it is true, we overwhelm ourselves in the moment, captivating our attention with the day to day activities, and tuning out the “all that is”. Isn’t that a part of living life to its fullest? If we are lucky, or smart, we will allow in reminders of the greater picture.

He hovered for the longest time, maintaining our eye to eye contact. Then he left, without even approaching the feeders this time. This was purely a social visit, and a welcomed one at that.

Estee Taschereau is a Successful Living Coach and Intuitive Counselor and a Reiki Master in traditional Reiki and Laser Reiki. Private phone appointments are available for informational & self-healing assistance sessions.