Day 2: Building a Mandala to Celebrate the Self

After working with hundreds of people over the past two years, I’ve come to conclude that Hawk is the most cited figurehead one claims on their spiritual journey. I am no different here. Hawk was the first animal I started paying attention to during my own awakening back in 2013. Its well-timed appearance is something I still revere to this day.

During one of the darkest times of my life, Hawk became a beacon of Hope. My awakening experience was anything but gentle, a signifier perhaps for how badly lost I was from my true path and purpose. Watching him soar through the skies gifted me a moment of respite from my worries and the excruciating pain I felt in my body. Finding one of his feathers felt like an omen of more positive days to come. I collected many during that time, many of which have been given away to share its magic with others feeling adrift too.

Now, Hawk medicine serves as an omen for me to pay attention to what’s happening in my life and to seek a broader perspective; look up, look down, look left and right, forward and back, before I take action or solidify a decision. The times I have paid attention to heed this helping warning, I have found important information hiding in plain sight, information I was too blinded by emotion to see at the moment.

By placing a Hawk feather on my altar today, I am paying tribute to the deep magic of our journey together, but also, I am acknowledging that I have earned Poise along my way. And I have all those wonder-filled moments of respecting the power of a pause to thank for it.

My prayer for today: “May I be open enough to see help in the most unlikely sources. And may be gracious and humble enough to accept it.”

And so it is.

Happy Saturday everyone.