posted December 11, 2006 02:27 AM         

My husband and I were getting up some more Christmas decorations and I walked around to the patio. Just then a large bird flew into my tree and perched way up top. It just sat there looking down at me. I called for my husband to look at this. At first I thought it was a hawk but my husband said "that's no hawk, it's a falcon!" My brother in law was there too and he said it was definitely a falcon. Most unusual to see one of those around here. It was the first one that any of us had ever seen.

Being that it was so rare and I never saw one I looked up the falcon animal totem and it sounds very good to me. Does fit me in that I am strongly independent, like my solitude and love being in nature. My first thought is that maybe it was a good sign regarding my dear friend Rainbow.

Falcon animal totem

To the ancient Egyptians, the falcon-headed god was Horus, son of Isis,
whose left eye became the moon and whose right eye became the sun,
thus enabling him to watch over his human charges night and day.

Many Native American tribes believed that the falcon possessed special
insight into the workings of the Great Mystery and that they were somehow
intimately associated with human destiny. The Italian poet Dante must have
been similarly inspired when he wrote in his masterpiece, The Divine
Comedy, of the "celestial falcons" that drove off the evil snake so the angels
could return to their stations watching over humankind.

Native people on the eastern coast of Peru have a creation myth that tells
of five falcon eggs left high on a mountaintop in the Andes that hatched into
the Creator and his brother, the four winds.

If the falcon has come to you in a dream or a vision and presented itself to
you as your totem animal, you may have a very strong independent spirit.
It is likely that you prize your solitude and enjoy spending long hours just
walking in nature. You may already be quite adept at going deep into the
Silence of meditation.

posted December 11, 2006 12:18 PM         

The Falcon to you as it is, as it will be...

You can "research" all the symbolism and in the end, the bird is to you what is to YOU...

I have always had birds in my life at one point or another...

I walked out of my bedroom door last spring and lo and behold was a Raven, skwaking away at me....never seen a Raven in the wild, let alone in a neighborhood of San Antonio!!!

On, the highways here, there are hawks, spaced every mile or so, sitting on the lightposts.........

I have often pondered their pourpose as I have been out in the wild frequently, but to sit there, perched atop the lightposts, as if watching the traffic travel, to and fro.......

To me, birds represent Freedom, to be who I will be, when I will be and as they sit up there so high, watching over us....