When @cabelindsay conjured up Round 2 of Steemit Vision Quest "Night Flight",
I immediately thought of a dream I had 2 years ago...
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It was a visionary dream complete with the medicine owl. Owl sees beyond the ordinary, beyond what we think we see each day. Owl is a messenger of the night. In old traditions, a messenger of death, but personally I see owl medicine quite differently. Owl shows us what lives beyond the selves we are right now into our deeper and paradoxically also higher selves. Owl gives us visionary insight & wisdom...
Hooo Hoooo Who are you?
I will recount it for you now...this is part real waking and part entering the world of dreams...
The first winter we moved here we were living in a yurt deep in the forest surrounded by hundred or more year old white oaks. The "walls" in the yurt are paper thin- we had a little insulation, but not much, really, so we could hear the forest breathing. Most every night the barred owls would call to one another right outside our door. It was a magical feeling being surrounded by these mystical harbingers of the night. Such powerful creatures, sometimes we would hear the sound of their wings swooping as they flew around us. Listen to them as they call:
I was having a lot of dreams that winter. The forest was starting to speak to me and, now looking back, I realize I was having visions of the energy that was to come.
What does my higher self see?
She speaks to me through my dreams.
Whose shoes will you fill? Who will you look to as you seek inspiration of what could be?
The dream begins with big shoes sitting inside of room. Outside, I am standing with a mentor of mine, Keith, and people are eating various appetizers. He gives me a piece of owl meat to eat and I take it and eat it with gratitude. Keith is the person who introduced me to Permaculture, and indeed he can be considered an expert.
(Keith with castor bean)
He publishes the Permaculture Activist and has taught thousands of souls about permaculture. His home where he and his partner grew and stored abundant food, caught and stored water, and thrived in a permaculture lifestyle was one of the first places I visited that fully embodied a more beautiful way for humans to relate to the earth. After I eat the owl meat....
I am flying high in the air. There are others there with me, but I am flying on my own. Above the trees and over a river, fast.
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It is night and I swoop down to the water.
I am careening on the face of the water.
It is night and I am basically gliding now on the face of the water, held and supported. No fear.
I am amazed- I thought one couldn't glide or be held on the surface like that.
I am looking for owls here - for I know they live at this level...
Landing on a wharf, I see my destination in the distance and I think,
Even if I have to walk there, I will make it.
It is amazing to me, for I had this dream 2 years ago and I can see this dream differently now. To me looking back, now I see how this dream was my higher self speaking to me, giving me the gift of foreshadowing and determination on my path. I have always admired Keith - he embodies someone who is a plant person, completely connected to and speaking for the plants. When we first moved here, my visions and dreams were centered around grounding a similar vision. To create abundance, food forests, incredible biodiversity, make a sanctuary of beauty and healing... to speak for the plants and to them... 2 years after this dream (nearly exactly), now I am sitting here for the #svq realizing how prophetic this dream was and how utterly blessed a vision it granted me.