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Hi. I have been wondering a lot lately about my relationship with crows. They hold such a presence that is often times associated with negative situations. When I see a crow, I get a humbling feeling and a sense of a bigger picture at play and I want to strengthen the picture.
I have read a couple of books that have minutely put in their two-sense in about crows. They say that the crow is a messanger of a warning that something meschevious or tricky in nature is (or is about to be) taking place.
I was thumbing through an old book of mine looking for mantras yesterday and noticed a section on crows that I had highlighted. In the book (Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand) he links crows with Saturn and more specifically 'Saturn's Return'. I am currently in my Saturn Return period, a time of lessons, and the crow is supposed to help warn you in this time and enlighten the lesson.
I want to get a better understanding of this and so I asked the Yi:
"Please give me an idea to ponder that will help me better understand the crow".
59.1.4 > 10
I was looking at what the ancient character for 59 was, and I read it described a man at the entrance of a cave looking around sharply with a stick. This struck me. I see the man as poking around to make sure things are safe before entering. If anyone understands this symbol more thoroughly please let me know. I often times think of the crow as keeping an eye out and poking around for anything that is dangerous. I am also seeing a correlation with the Image. Water and danger below. Wind above is the bird itself, and/or the element it travels on. I also associate wind with a message.
Hilary was saying something to the effect that 59 is about looking at the flow rather than the fixity of the situation. And she goes on to talk about the line "The ancients make offerings to the highest to establish the temples" in saying something like the temples are not make of solid structure and stone but rather they are of spirit. This also strikes me. The crow could be looked at as a moving temple (just like we all are :bows
Maybe 59 in this reading is actually talking about me connecting and making a relationship with this temple??
Line 1 to me says to trust in their help.
Line 4 stumps me. Maybe because the range from translation to translation. If I just go off of Hilary's, it makes perfect sense. Barbarions aka danger hiding. The hilltop is a great place to place oneself, to see danger. A sort of defensive stance to take. Crows see from up high. But then I read Wilhem and a couple others I get very confused. Help!
Oh and I know I am using the word danger a bit much. It is me generalizing something tricky, mischevious, etc. It could just be a cop with a radar gun up ahead.
10 Treading ritual. Someone who embodies the spirit of a dead person in ritual. Sounds like halloween! And very fitting for the little black creatures we call crows. But this person whom embodies, that is a heavy and serious task that should be done correctly. The crow could be that 'person'. They might have quite the heavy burdon on their shoulders. Or maybe 10 is saying to me that I need to find someone who knows about crows in this way. Maybe I need to find a guide, because I shouldn't treat this as something light. Also, 10 is about staying out of trouble, precisely what I feel the crow is doing. It is warning me to stay out of the trouble.
Thoughts?
Add on: Does anyone have any good book recommendations on animal sybolism? I have no books on the subject, just ones of symbols in general. Maybe something animal shamanism books?
....and I might pick up some Edgar Allan
I have read a couple of books that have minutely put in their two-sense in about crows. They say that the crow is a messanger of a warning that something meschevious or tricky in nature is (or is about to be) taking place.
I was thumbing through an old book of mine looking for mantras yesterday and noticed a section on crows that I had highlighted. In the book (Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand) he links crows with Saturn and more specifically 'Saturn's Return'. I am currently in my Saturn Return period, a time of lessons, and the crow is supposed to help warn you in this time and enlighten the lesson.
I want to get a better understanding of this and so I asked the Yi:
"Please give me an idea to ponder that will help me better understand the crow".
59.1.4 > 10
I was looking at what the ancient character for 59 was, and I read it described a man at the entrance of a cave looking around sharply with a stick. This struck me. I see the man as poking around to make sure things are safe before entering. If anyone understands this symbol more thoroughly please let me know. I often times think of the crow as keeping an eye out and poking around for anything that is dangerous. I am also seeing a correlation with the Image. Water and danger below. Wind above is the bird itself, and/or the element it travels on. I also associate wind with a message.
Hilary was saying something to the effect that 59 is about looking at the flow rather than the fixity of the situation. And she goes on to talk about the line "The ancients make offerings to the highest to establish the temples" in saying something like the temples are not make of solid structure and stone but rather they are of spirit. This also strikes me. The crow could be looked at as a moving temple (just like we all are :bows
Maybe 59 in this reading is actually talking about me connecting and making a relationship with this temple??Line 1 to me says to trust in their help.
Line 4 stumps me. Maybe because the range from translation to translation. If I just go off of Hilary's, it makes perfect sense. Barbarions aka danger hiding. The hilltop is a great place to place oneself, to see danger. A sort of defensive stance to take. Crows see from up high. But then I read Wilhem and a couple others I get very confused. Help!
Oh and I know I am using the word danger a bit much. It is me generalizing something tricky, mischevious, etc. It could just be a cop with a radar gun up ahead.
10 Treading ritual. Someone who embodies the spirit of a dead person in ritual. Sounds like halloween! And very fitting for the little black creatures we call crows. But this person whom embodies, that is a heavy and serious task that should be done correctly. The crow could be that 'person'. They might have quite the heavy burdon on their shoulders. Or maybe 10 is saying to me that I need to find someone who knows about crows in this way. Maybe I need to find a guide, because I shouldn't treat this as something light. Also, 10 is about staying out of trouble, precisely what I feel the crow is doing. It is warning me to stay out of the trouble.
Thoughts?
Add on: Does anyone have any good book recommendations on animal sybolism? I have no books on the subject, just ones of symbols in general. Maybe something animal shamanism books?
....and I might pick up some Edgar Allan
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