Owl Be There

11:11 pm

Taking a look at my previous posts I realized I never did share my most recent Owl story.  It's not so much a story I suppose as an episode in my book of lovely Owl experiences.

This one, like the others, was very simple.  Over way too quickly but leaving a lasting impression.

A few months ago I stepped out on my deck in the middle of the night.  I live in a "City in the Country" as the city's motto goes, but currently live in a part that's more city than country.  However I happily enjoy a totally private deck with a little forested strip that runs between my place and a light industrial area.  I see the usual forest animals back here, with eagles, hawks, hummingbirds, heron, coyote, rabbit, and deer often making an appearance.  I love it.

I was up as usual in the middle of the night, unable to sleep (in ascension, one's changing patterns can be difficult to negotiate with the rest of the world’s schedule!), and feeling hot and stuffy, I stepped out on the deck leaning out on the cool railing, my hands, forearms and head sticking out.  I was just taking a nice deep breath while surveying the forest to my right when suddenly I saw a movement, dark and silent and very close, out  of the corner of my left eye. 

I turned, startled and unsure what presence was suddenly inches away from me.  I pulled back as I turned, and saw a great horned owl soaring by my chest, and I took in a sharp intake of breath in shock and surprise.  I watched as it flew to my right, skimming along the side of the building, soaring soundlessly and effortlessly through the darkness, down into the trees and disappearing from sight. 

I stood there with my eyes wide open a long time, barely breathing, and the echo of my gasp still hanging in the air.  The stillness of the night combined with the suddenness of the encounter created a moment where time stopped and one finds oneself in a heightened awareness; in the peak of an experience.

What is kind of cool is this is not the first experience of this type I’ve had with this Owl while outside on my deck.  This past spring and summer I observed his maturing as he learned to fly and hunt with his parent.  They would hoot to each other all night and hunt from a particular tree.  So on another night I had stepped out onto the deck with my camera to film the moon.  As I leaned over the deck I saw something out of the corner of my eye and this time saw the Owl coming at me along side the building.  I tried to swoop around with my video to capture him, but all I got was a very blurry video and my reaction to the Owl flying by so close.

What I suspect is the Owl sees the motion of my hand over the railing and sensing a potential prey, swoops in for a look.  A silent and deadly hunter, I suspect if I was his quarry, I wouldn’t stand a chance!


Owl be seeing you!
Jaynne

All Energy Serves The Master

9:15 pm

Oh yes I feel it.  The sad energies, the bad energies.  I hear the put down voices, the tape loops of negative self statements.  I hear the fear demons screaming in my ears predicting doom around every corner and action.  I feel the anxiety in my stomach and the strange aches and pains in my body.

I’m glad I’m conscious of these energies because I enjoy asking myself, “Do I choose this energy?  Does this thought really belong to me?” 

Because then I can say with a smile, “No, it does not.”

Does your mind respond with some ridiculous protest like, “But what if it IS yours??”  Oh the mind loves to fix things!  Your mind will calm down when you let it know there is nothing wrong.   Nothing to fix.

Even if you insist a negative thought or feeling must be yours, then what would happen if you just tried saying, “This is not mine – I don’t care if I have chosen this for eons of lifetimes before.  I ‘unchose’ it right now and I allow this energy to truly serve me in a new way.” 

No you are not being irresponsible.  You are not being insincere.  You are being God Also!

Why would I ask you to do such a crazy thing, talking to yourself like that – choosing this energy or that as ‘yours’ and ‘not yours’?  Because you can!  And when you do such crazy things as this, you are becoming a master of life.  Your life.

I can smile as I feel the attempts to feed me discouraging, negative energy that doesn’t serve me and tries to trip me up – it’s becoming so easy now to simply acknowledge it and then step aside to allow my divinity to transmute it into energy that serves me and others in magical ways.  I take a deep breath and simply dispel the message and alchemise the energy.  I choose for it to serve me, and so it is.  It’s so fun to allow those nasty barbs to zoom right past, to be magically dissolved into energy that acknowledges what I acknowledge:

I Am That I Am.

L8r, cr8r!

Jaynne