Lynn
03-03-2015, 03:57 AM
As many comment on the image I have displayed I thought I would open up a topic on how this came to be and what the Crow means to me. In this I hope that others share in their animal connections and how they came to play out for you to make notice of them being there.
The crow is a bird that has always been with me. I really came to make note of them on a trip to England in 2012. I was very much on a spiritual journey and when I would visit church yards and graves the crows would fly in. They would land near to where I was but were very skittish and hard to get a picture of. The one in my image is one that was so fixated on what seemed to be listening to the grave that I was able to get a shot off.
On a recent trip in December/January to England again the crow was very much present. They were there for warnings at times. While I note that they sell stuffed crows at Stonehenge I had experience with them where they seemed to come in and pose for me. This time I had a good zoom camera that was silent. I had an instance at The Tor where I was so scared to come down the path that a crow landed in the tree on the path and that focal point of it being there helped me down. Like it knew I needed the help that I was scared but needed to know I would be OK.
Another instance was at Farleigh Hungerford where there is foot path that goes down quite a grade and a crow flew and landed on the sign just a huge gust of wind came from nowhere that seemed to say no to be doing that path.
I have learned to hear the warnings as I do not have a good sense of balance from inner ear damage and that there are limit to what is common sense to attempt.
The connection I have with the crow is that on the level of an Animal Familiar which is defined by Webster’s dictionary as closely acquainted; an intimate association or companion; a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve or guard a person. We often only think of a “witch” but this is not always a correct response. We may have a familiar and not realize it, or maybe do not believe in them. There are time when we seem to have a communication or understanding with this animal and do not make the connection to that being a familiar.
CROW
* Thief, trickery, boldness, skill, cunning, single mindedness, bringer of knowledge
* Prophecy.
* Learn from the past but don’t hold onto it
* Shape Shifting
The name for the crow in England is “rooks” they are primarily a black bird but on rare occasions they are born white.
The crow is mischievous and full of pranks, they will attack the nests of other birds and rob the eggs, and they are also very loud in their warning calls surrounding their territory.
In North America the crow is said to be the keeper of all sacred law, the one that knew the deep mysteries of all creation. Seeing a crow in certain situations is an omen of changes to come. The crow is said to be the gate keeper that leads one to the gates of the supernatural.
Superstitions:
The English rhyme “one means anger; two is mirth; three a wedding; four a birth; five is heaven; six is hell; seven is the devil himself.”
“If a crow calls three times over a house; someone will die.
The crow is a bird that has always been with me. I really came to make note of them on a trip to England in 2012. I was very much on a spiritual journey and when I would visit church yards and graves the crows would fly in. They would land near to where I was but were very skittish and hard to get a picture of. The one in my image is one that was so fixated on what seemed to be listening to the grave that I was able to get a shot off.
On a recent trip in December/January to England again the crow was very much present. They were there for warnings at times. While I note that they sell stuffed crows at Stonehenge I had experience with them where they seemed to come in and pose for me. This time I had a good zoom camera that was silent. I had an instance at The Tor where I was so scared to come down the path that a crow landed in the tree on the path and that focal point of it being there helped me down. Like it knew I needed the help that I was scared but needed to know I would be OK.
Another instance was at Farleigh Hungerford where there is foot path that goes down quite a grade and a crow flew and landed on the sign just a huge gust of wind came from nowhere that seemed to say no to be doing that path.
I have learned to hear the warnings as I do not have a good sense of balance from inner ear damage and that there are limit to what is common sense to attempt.
The connection I have with the crow is that on the level of an Animal Familiar which is defined by Webster’s dictionary as closely acquainted; an intimate association or companion; a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve or guard a person. We often only think of a “witch” but this is not always a correct response. We may have a familiar and not realize it, or maybe do not believe in them. There are time when we seem to have a communication or understanding with this animal and do not make the connection to that being a familiar.
CROW
* Thief, trickery, boldness, skill, cunning, single mindedness, bringer of knowledge
* Prophecy.
* Learn from the past but don’t hold onto it
* Shape Shifting
The name for the crow in England is “rooks” they are primarily a black bird but on rare occasions they are born white.
The crow is mischievous and full of pranks, they will attack the nests of other birds and rob the eggs, and they are also very loud in their warning calls surrounding their territory.
In North America the crow is said to be the keeper of all sacred law, the one that knew the deep mysteries of all creation. Seeing a crow in certain situations is an omen of changes to come. The crow is said to be the gate keeper that leads one to the gates of the supernatural.
Superstitions:
The English rhyme “one means anger; two is mirth; three a wedding; four a birth; five is heaven; six is hell; seven is the devil himself.”
“If a crow calls three times over a house; someone will die.