The owl can see its way through the darkest night, so in your darkest times and moments the ‘Spirit of the Owl’ can help you see through your darkness, guide your way and help you see beyond From darkness, to a new dawn and a new beginning.
If you have been lost in the dark, the ‘Spirit of the Owl’ can seek you out and guide you back to the right path. Many healers, mediums and shamans invoke the ‘Spirit of the Owl’ to help a person to extract their hidden secrets and peer into the darkness to see what else is hidden and in retrieving souls. Owls can see clearly through the darkness to the cause of any imbalance of the body or mind, and use their wisdom to find the course of action to heal the imbalance and restore a healthy balance to the mind and body.
Owls are great hunters and help maintain balance in ‘Mother Nature’s Animals’, by keeping any imbalance in the overpopulation of what some people call vermin, as they can cause disease, in check. The ‘Spirit of the Owl’ can in the same way seek out and destroy the imbalance of your cells, viruses and bacteria, and by maintaining this balance, maintain a healthy lifestyle and help prevent illness and disease.
Owls have long been associated with both death and wisdom. In ‘Greek mythology’, the owl was sacred to Pallos, Athena, the ‘goddess of wisdom’, the owl sat on her shoulder and illuminated her blind side. The owl was also associated with ‘Arts and Skills’. and it can help you become wiser and more creative, imaginative and capable of learning new skills. In the beliefs of the ‘Native American Tribes’, the owl was seen as the ‘Bearer of the Spirits of the Elders’. In ‘Japanese culture’, owls were seen as ‘divine messengers from the gods’. In ‘Indian culture’, owls were considered as ‘a companion of the gods’, and in the ‘Malay language’, the word owl means ‘ghost bird’.
The owl plays an important role in the ‘Natural Cycle of Birth and Rebirth’, an important belief carried forward from the ‘Early Mists of Time’, helping and guiding ‘Earthbound Souls’ to their loved ones and improving clairvoyance. Owls can remove negative forces and help you find a new life, releasing the ties that hold you back to the old life. The owl can bring back the ‘Natural Balance’ within your home and life, and can help you cleanse the dead things in your life and restore your ability to move more freely through the different stages of our life cycle in this life. earth, the removal of stagnation, to release joy and happiness back into our lives, the removal of the accumulation of too many possessions and the modern pressure of too much to do in our lives, and too much of ‘anything’ and ‘ everything’. ‘
The ‘Spirit of the Owl’ also guides us back to our ‘True Path’, removing all the false barriers we get entangled in in our ‘Everyday Modern Existence’. The ‘bombing’ of all the ‘should haves’ and ‘must haves’ in our daily lives, which does not come from our ‘inner needs’, but from the opinions and beliefs of society and those around us. Too much time spent ‘Hearing’ or ‘Seeing’ what we are told ‘We should have’, through all the ads, shows and articles that surround us in our everyday existence. We are so busy looking and listening to all these wonderful new aids that will improve our lives and make us feel so much better, that we ignore ‘What We Really Want’, we find ourselves spiraling into darkness, still in search of the ever elusive happiness that we crave, further and further and further and further away from the ‘Real Food’ that we all need in this life. Right now we need the ‘Spirit of the Owl’ to help us stop and take a good, focused look at our lives, as only the owl can do, and ‘Ask’ ‘what of all our many possessions would we have? left to ‘Meet Our Spiritual Requirements’. With the help of the wisdom and guidance of the owls, we can begin to eliminate all the unwanted elements, to make way for the ‘Birth of the new self’, and as our new ‘Spiritual Energy’ grows, also the shackles, limitations , fears and anxieties slowly melt away, we emerge with a new energy and a keen eye for what the future holds. In the same way when we move house, change jobs, form a new relationship, give birth, adopt a new animal friend, we must let something or everything old die, to make way for the new. The ‘Spirit of the Owl will stay with us and help us through this often painful process, it can be made worse if we try to hold on to the old, using it as a crutch to support us as the new unknown can be seen. be a forbidden place, how will we manage? We wonder, who will be there to support us if we stumble or, worse, fall? The ‘Spirit of the Owl’ will be at our side, guiding our way, using the long vision of the owl to look beyond, into the future and into the ‘New Dawn’.
All life is interconnected, we are only a small part of the ‘Natural Life of our Wonderful Planet’, and like all animals, trees and all other forms of life, we are part of the cycle of life and death, but this is only ‘Our Earthly Form’ our spirit will prevail, and will be guided by the ‘Spirit of the Owl’ in whose ‘Spirit’ we ‘Trust’ in this life and in the hereafter.
Owls are one of the few birds that can turn their heads 135 degrees, and some can turn their heads even further, so that we can look back at the ‘Deaths’ on our journey into this ‘New Dawn’ guided by the owl. With each ‘Death’ and ‘Rebirth’ we should remember and rejoice in how each ‘Cycle’ has helped us become the person we are today.
Owls have inhabited our planet for the last 58 to 60 million years, and from there comes their wisdom and understanding, and their learning to adapt and survive, often in the face of adversity, as they have to stand their ground, sharing their territory . with much larger birds of prey like eagles and hawks, in this way the ‘Spirit of the Owl will transmit you the courage to ‘Stand firm’ and learn to adapt to our circumstances, and be wise in our decisions, and like the owls learn to have foresight and knowledge to use the gift wisely. Using the knowledge of the owl, one can become adept at magic, and also have great insight into Magic and Ritual. Merlin was a great wizard to have an owl by his side.
In order for the ‘Spirit of the Owl’ to be with you at all times you must have a totem or talisman of your owl, it can be a small object such as an owl keychain or something similar that you can carry with you at all times. You may also need to have a statue or totem in your home to ward off ‘negative forces’.