Eagle Medicine

This morning, I pulled Eagle from my Medicine Cards deck. And I was surprised. My energy has been frenetic, I'm still processing a lot from my time at Omega, and feeling a bit like I've hurled myself against a brick wall back in the city. Not so much with a SPLAT! but like a cartoon character, over and over again, peeling myself off the pavement only to run high speed into the same obstacle. Yet even as I write the word "obstacle", I realize it's not an obstacle at all. Just the sense of something I can't quite yet walk through. A membrane still impermeable.
Eagle is about Spirit. The creative force of Great Spirit and connection to the divine. And the ability to remain connected to the Earth. Like the shamanic image above - an Axis Mundi self portrait from a series I'm working on. Wings skyward, roots Earthbound.
I've been playing around with this imagery for over a year somewhat unconsciously. It's moved into the conscious realm front and center now.
I'm going to be starting a new gig at an ad agency in a few days. My schedule, which has been a pretty flexible 3 day work week is likely to go into hyperdrive. I'm going to be dreaming up stuff that's much more material, commercial. And still, playing with the energies that I touch in with each year at Omega, and bring with lovingkindness into the world.
So I spread my wings and send roots deep down into the Earth - as we all do in different ways each day. Searching, thirsting for soul freedom. Grounded by the need to find our way in this physical world.
To keep the balance, I practice martial arts and yoga. Last night, going to the heavy bag with a vengence to get myself back in body - and in doing so, hurting my shoulders (upon which feel like the weight of the world, which has me thinking about the Atlas myth).
This morning, I'm not so sure where all of this leads. But I've left my left brain behind and gone with the flow of seemingly disconnected images and insights.
The thread may be my new obsession: Twitter, where collective bits and pieces create a kind of virtual mandala of human experience. It some ways it's all just a bunch of data, details, drivel, and in others a cerebral vortex of humanity reaching across the wires beyond body to instant connection and community.
I just got the image and feel of an ocean flooding into and through my body and being, knocking everything over and washing everything clean. The surf laps the sand. Seaweed dances in the foam.
May your day be filled with Magic Medicine, the energy of Eagle and the power of imagination.