[Thespiritexpress] Pelican Medicine

[Carlie Abbott]

Mark,.....thank-you for the poetic writing describing your Pelican, 
drumming experience.  Reading your last line, "I look around take one 
last deep breath and step back into my life.", I would like to think 
that your journey IS you life.

Love you lots,......Carlie

On 10/31/21 7:59 PM, Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress wrote:
> Yes such amazing birds! ~~ can be 30 lbs. and have 10 ft. wingspans! ~ 
> been around for 30 million yrs ~ !!!
> They have a cooperative way of getting food ~ a Unity that has enabled 
> them to be around so long.
> Can fly in perfect formations with synchronized wingbeats.
>
> This little memo is from over a month ago ~ since then have been down 
> there walking 3-4 nights a week.
> My sunset medicine walks ~!!
>
> ~m.🙏🌟
>
> 🌟
> ,
>> A very big Westwind tonight at sunset time~ and birds and birds and 
>> more birds.
>>  ~ and more kinds of birds than I’ve ever seen at any one time at the 
>> ocean at the headlands at sunset time.
>> I’m sitting out on the furthest promontory of rock going out into the 
>> ocean facing due west at sunset time ~ an amazing display of color 
>> with long clouds stratified over the horizon catching the last golden 
>> crimson lights diffused into the clearest of blue skies ~ on either 
>> side of me a few hundred yards to left and right are very large 
>> masses of rock and earth where huge amounts of birds are gathered and 
>> flying back and forth in front of and over me  ~ and going on beyond 
>> sight disappearing into mists and clouds becoming flying specks ~ 
>> formations flying through the clear sky and becoming all these black 
>> perfectly sharp shaped winged silouettes.
>> Many many pelicans geese cormorants seagulls and other birds I can’t 
>> name small and large ~ flying in all directions all at once at times 
>> and many especially the pelicans coming quite close to me ~ literally 
>> within 10 ft at times slowly gliding past in wild wind  ~
>> pushing them at the shore and rocks where I’m standing/sitting 
>> becomes a flight path actually after a while and they come closer and 
>> closer .
>> I am the only walker out there ~ alone on the promontory beyond a 
>> couple people visible near the parking lot by the cliff
>> edge ~  I see no-one else  .  .  .   I start chanting and drumming on 
>> the rock with with my gloved hands softly keeping a rhythm ~  my foot 
>> pounding away into the loose rock accompanying myself  ~ it seems 
>> totally appropriate to join in somehow ~ it is just hey hey yah yah 
>> hey yah hey ~ feeling the rhythm ~ feeling completely at One with all 
>> this.
>>  As I do this singing/chanting the birds start flying lower and 
>> closer to me. I sing louder completely dissolving into the scene ~ 
>> they come closer this goes on for a long time maybe 45 min until it 
>> gets almost dark and I head for the car  ~
>> on my way there  I stop a couple of times to hang out with it all and 
>> do a standing meditation with some slight movement.
>>  ~ at one point there is a large flock of smaller 
>> I-don’t-know-whatkindofbirds directly in front of me ~
>> that become almost stationary in the wind for a long time and stay in 
>> front of me for several minutes as a rounded elongated shape not able 
>> to make any headway through the wind.
>>  ~ a large flying shape of birds that keeps changing but not going 
>> forward at all ~ then little by little makes it way up the coast 
>> heading north over cliffs and bluffs.
>>
>> The first stars are appearing as I get to the car ~ the wind has 
>> become more gentle ~ there are no other cars.
>> I look around take one last deep breath and step back into my life.
>>
>> ~m.🙏🌟
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Oct 31, 2021, at 7:23 PM, Spirit House via Thespiritexpress 
>> <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org 
>> <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>  ~~~~I’m so glad that everyone is enjoying Viktoria’s stunning 
>> photo’s of Pelicans ~~~ She actually took those shots and sent them 
>> out on “The Spirit Express”  two days ago~.  She was asking me why it 
>> did not post for two days~.  The answer is that large files with 
>> pictures do not automatically post due to their size and the spam 
>> safety issue on a “List Serve” such as “thespiritexpress ~~~~ it is 
>> usually one day later and sometimes two days later that I, as a 
>> moderator for the site, receive a notification ~~~ I then have to go 
>> into the controls and resubmit them with approval ~~ this is about 
>> controlling SPAM~~~.  This has happened with many of Marc’s beautiful 
>> photos and also Abe’s and others~.
>>
>> Pelican Medicine
>>
>> <IMG_6560.jpeg>
>> Big River
>> ~You can find them in Big River at low tide flapping their wings in 
>> the water taking a bath in sweet water (i.e. not high in salt content)
>>
>> from Animal Speak:
>> Pelicans are very buoyant because of a system of air sacs under the 
>> skin that make it unsinkable.
>> Symbolically, this hints at being able to be buoyant and to rest on 
>> top in spite of the heaviness of life circumstances.
>>
>> The pelican teaches that no matter how difficult life becomes, no 
>> matter how much you plunge—you can pop to the surface.
>> The pelican holds the knowledge of how to rise above life’s trials.
>>
>> Pelicans in spite of their lightness, sometimes have a difficult time 
>> taking off from the water. Still they do manage, and again we can see 
>> the correspondence to freeing oneself from that which would weigh you 
>> down. The water is a symbol of emotions, and emotions often weigh us 
>> down. The pelican teaches how not to be overcome by them.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Thespiritexpress mailing list
>> Thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:Thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>
>> http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Thespiritexpress mailing list
> Thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org
> http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/thespiritexpress/attachments/20211031/a9b05c2a/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_0433.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 97253 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/thespiritexpress/attachments/20211031/a9b05c2a/attachment-0001.jpg