Up a Tree: An Angel Message

When an animal or a bird catches your attention, it's helpful to pay attention to what they're doing at the time.  It could be an angel message. A clue to something happening or about to happen in your circumstances, and how to best handle the situation.  Saturday morning at the local market, a new vendor had a creative display of  decoupaged mason jars.  The autumn-seasoned red-tailed squirrel was a keeper.  Squirrel brings a lesson in giving and receiving, in work and in play.  Balance is the message. 

Synchronicity was in the air.  On our next stop, as I got out of the car, a cute baby squirrel was chattering in a tree.  Big brown eyes stared from the limb directly above me.  Chattering loud, he didn't let up. Was he stuck up a tree and had forgotten how to get down. The intensity of his constant squawking made me ask the angels to watch over him.   After a walk around the lake, I returned to find the tree quietly vacant.  

 Sometimes, we may be confused about a situation, long-term, or not, we've tried our best to resolve it harmoniously.  But we're stumped...up a tree...seeking refuge, waiting for answers. 

The next day the up a tree theme continued.  At the rehab center, the wild peacocks were missing. No longer strutting around sharing their beauty, I happened to look up. The flock was up a tree, waiting out molting season. Every year they shed their old feathers, and new one's grow in during the winter months.  The regal birds go into hiding, dreaming of a shivering new dance, regaled in a brand new full feathered fan, ready to meet a mate next spring. 

 Fall is a time of letting go--the old passes away to make room for the new...all part of a cycle.  Everything has a season.  I've been feeling a need to let go of all the things that I no longer absolutely need, to down-size, and not be weighed down by stuff.    

 To LET GO does not mean to stop caring, 

it means  I can’t do it for someone else.

To LET GO is not to cut myself off, it's the realization

      I can't control another.

To LET GO is not to enable, 

but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To LET GO is to admit powerlessness, 

which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To LET GO is not to try to change or blame another,

       it's to make the most of myself.

To LET GO is not to care for, but to care about.

To LET GO is not to judge, 

but to allow another  to be a human being.

To LET GO is not to be in the middle arranging all the

      outcomes, 

but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To LET GO is not to be protective, 

it's to permit another to face reality.

To LET GO is not to deny, but to accept.

To LET GO is not to nag, scold or argue,

 but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

To LET GO is not to adjust everything to my desires, 

but

       to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

To LET GO is not to regret the past,

 but to grow and live.

      To LET GO is to fear less 

and LOVE more.

                                                       --Author Unknown

 

Happy Autumn, enjoy your day with the angels.  Remember you're never alone.  You are in the presence of God's angels.  Keep looking up.  The best is yet to be.

 

Love and peace,

Rae Karen 

An Angel Message: Lizard to Go...Or Let Go

                                ( Photo I took last year on the fence)

Driving your car, you notice something move across the windshield and cling to the wiper blade.  To your surprise it's a lizard; holding on, head high, riding in the wind.  Some messages from nature are more subtle than others. When they are not, you know it's a deliberate message for you.

That's what happened yesterday on our way to lunch in Orange City.  "Hold on," we told him, slowing down and stopping at the nearest nature spot we could find.  I felt sad that he would be a long way from home, but we had no choice.  Instead of being grateful for his reprieve, to our dismay he ran underneath the car. Having done our best, we asked the angels to watch over him. We had to let go of the outcome.

A short time later while eating lunch at the Mexican restaurant, my attention was drawn to a gigantic century cactus outside our window.  On a long thick frond, I spotted a lizard! It looked like our little hitch-hiker. When I told Elliot to look, the lizard's throat billowed in bright red as if saying "Thanks, here I am."  A friend once told me that's a sign of love.  The cactus was near our car and so we laughed, happy to see that he was safe.

Lizard is symbolic of detachment. When under attack a lizard will snap off its own tail to fool his predator. This way he can make a quick get away before he gets swallowed up.  The tail will eventually grow back, but in its wisdom lizard teaches that sometimes you have to lose your tail to get ahead.  Lizard also teaches to let go of old fears. It can help us make a break from the past.  It may indicate a need to explore new realms and to follow your own guidance before you get swallowed up in what's not beneficial for you.

I thought the lizard energy was finished for the day, but to my surprise I saw a tiny baby lizard on the roof of our car as were were going out  He was so adorable, looking up at me as I offered him a ride on a leaf.  He jumped on willingly, but before I could lay it down he playfully scampered up my arm and then jumped into the grass. I was thankful that I'm no longer afraid of lizards (as I wrote in previous blogs) That's one fear they helped me get over.  Love is always the answer. Love knows the way.

Enjoy your day with the Angels.  It's fun to pay attention to what nature may be trying to teach you.

Love and blessings,


Rae