Thunderbird Magic

The following article was originally written as guest post June 23 on Our Evolution Blog: http://amzuri.wordpress.com/

The Thunderbird legend is timeless. Some people believe it began as a myth of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes. Yet, the legend spread much wider. This great creature has been sighted by non-native people on many different continents.

Native American myths suggest this enormous Thunderbird is a guardian Spirit with innate power to influence changes in the elements and energy shifts in everything. It has penetrating vision and changes form to help regenerate and stabilize the energy grids of the Earth.

Legend says the magical creature flew with a whole whale in its claws and saved a Chilkat tribe from starvation. As lightning shoots out from its eyes and thunder clangs from its wings, you might imagine everyone would hear it coming. Wisdom reveals the depth of your faith and nature of your beliefs determine all you will sense and experience.

As it happens, the Lakota and other tribes believe that if you have repeated dreams of birds, the medicine or alternative healing way is part of your destiny. Yet, if you envision a Thunderbird, you are destined to be a ‘Heyoka,’ that is, to learn to channel and heal with electromagnetic energy. According to Laughing Deer in the

Encylopedia Mythica, Heyoka is “one who does things backwards or opposite...Spirit chooses who is Heyoka; it is a very difficult path to follow.”

Of course, difficulty is relative. Conditioning may have also taught you choose your own destiny. This in mind, you’re never alone. Discerning that the Thunderbird serves the Great Spirit beyond enables you to realize you are also guided you in ways you hadn’t foreseen by forces you have yet to understand.

Some people believe a Heyoka is a trickster to be feared, ridiculed and revered. Negative perception does not recognize illusion is part of the teaching medicine of Heyoka. Human beings won’t grasp life in the same way. Heyoka practices are sacred and have magical meanings that carry over into your life. Will you be empowered to shift your consciousness?

Heyokas are said to embody divine strength. They are trusted interpreters of dreams and heal with innate insights that even they themselves underestimate. They may unexpectedly enter your dreams or your apparent reality. Why? To remind you not to get too serious about your current mental state, physical form, thoughts and beliefs. Human beings are encouraged to be humble, to detach from conditions and to recognize Spirit wields all power. You only determine how you will react to a given set of impermanent circumstances.

Thunderbird magic itself relates back to the mythical bird’s role as a catalyst in the lives of human beings. It triggers revelation, transformation and energy shifts beyond superficial perception. Heyoka behavior, awakened by the Thunderbird, defies the status quo to awaken your senses to change your own behavior. The magic you hold within yourself enables you to initiate changes at the cellular level of your being. Thunderbird magic leads you back to rediscover the dormant magic within yourself.

After all, from birth, you master the art of producing your own illusions. Your perception is full of them. By extraordinary or mystical influence, you produce desired effects or results in every area of your life. How much of this do you realize? Supernatural elements are forces of your own nature. Thunderbird magic opens a doorway into another dimension of your soul. As you raise your awareness, you prepare to explore infinity.

What if your thoughts are just the tip of the iceberg?

As you open your eyes each morning, you are consciously aware of time and space.  You sense where you are, in comparison to where you're not.  You sense the familiar and duality, and proceed with your day.  How often do you consciously think differently?

For example, when you sit up in bed, you're aware of a spatial orientation you have conditioned in your mind.  You detect a difference between sitting up and laying back down, getting up or staying put.  Your brain distinguishes left from right too.  How many people ask themselves who designated, named and highly-limited these directions?

You can tell the difference between walking forward or retracing your steps backward.  You sense the distance from floor to ceiling,  up and down.  This is basic spatial orientation.  From birth, your brain creates reference points. Yet, do you realize that your references are not restricted to those outlined by your five traditional senses?

Conscious awareness blocks out perspectives.  Why?  Ask yourself why you choose to limit your sourcecs of information.  What about those which would expand your senses or stretch you further? What if you could travel circumferentially? What if parts of you travel without the awareness of other parts? What if you already do with much success?

What would you say if parts of your body send and receive information and communicate constantly in ways you don't consciously control? What if you deny the complexity of your being and create the illusion of fear to prevent learning? How would you change if you abruptly transformed the ways you read energy and its fluctuations?

As you evolve, you may come to understand that time and space are not what they seem, not what you understand, not what you have been taught to believe.  When your visions become myths, you begin to discern options are infinite, immeasurable and very inviting.  Where will you go? How will your life change as the result of shifting your beliefs? The sky isn't the limit as none exist. Discipline, courage and self-directedness are indispensible.

Discern before you leap

Anaylsis of dream submitted by Anonymous in Victoria, Australia.

Dream- I was on a large, car ferry on route to a place where I would stop and take a smaller ship to my eventual destination.  It was dark.  Passengers were inside. Instinct prompted me to go up on top deck. I noticed the back cargo door open and water poured in, causing the ship to capsize. As the ship was rising out of the water, I sensed time in slow-motion. I took a leap from the ship and used the guard rail as a springboard to catapult myself out of harm's way. I landed in the water, but wan't cold. The ship vanished. Alone, I got to shore. In a building on a wharf, I inquired where I to get my next connection. A mentor appeared a distance ahead. I found money for the next ticket.

Predominant Emotions-urgency, surprise, anticipation, uneasiness, self-directedness

Interpretation- Ferries tend to follow predictable routes.  If you don't take the helm, life isn't so clear-cut.  This is a transition phase.  Adapt quickly to unforeseen events. Change isn't always viewed as comfortable, but it can be, if you relax and adjust accordingly.

To sense an impending crisis is an invitation for action.  As you evolve to work through immobilizing fear and discomfort you create, such a situation becomes to your advantage.  You can choose to develop resourcefulness and ingenuity. As your perception of time and space evolves, how you see yourself stretches and expands too.

That you 'rise above' undesirable, external forces shows you can control your emotions and reactions.  You temper the pace of each phase of your journey, or any learning. 

As you grow to discern before you leap, you realize Higher forces always guide you toward goals.  You simply need to choose to  recognize them.  No matter where you are,  you can choose pleasant moods as you explore the depths of your subconscious mind.

Rack your brain for your underlying priorities

Describe characteristics of your dream relationship.  This doesn't have to be romantic in nature.  It can be a list of traits that you find appealing or necessary. Let us know why.  How did you come to these conclusions? Do you imagine this or speak from experience?

Lighten your load

Your thoughts and beliefs sometimes create feelings of heaviness which are misplaced and misguided. What would it take for you to release any blocks that prevent you from living a more uplifting life? What would you have to do to hear what your Higher Self tells you? This core of being never ceases to tell you how much you are loved as you are.

If you detect an awkward heaviness, its an invitation to lighten your load. Learn to anchor the mind in a new place. Seeking self-improvement reflects a desire to feel better about yourself, yet it overlooks that faults and weakness only exist in the mind.

Learn to listen, trust, and take action guided by the fun-loving accepting heart. If certain choices evoke discomfort, notice what these geelings point toward. You can explore this. Shifting attention to what you imagine feels good brings this forth.

You are alive and everything you do or do not do can only help you. Listen to heartfelt messages to know all burdens are illusion. Discomfort signals your desire to heal a wound you come to feel is no longer there. Anger reminds you untapped energy can be transformed and rechannelled. Worry teaches the power of trust. Know everything is a disguised form of love pointing to how it feels to be yourself.  Its the simplest thing to do.