While driving in my car via a new route for me, from Ithaca to finally settle in at my new lakeside community retirement house, I watched as a Golden Eagle carried its living prey: a snake, dangling from its beak. The eagle with snake flew in front of my car in my same direction for a long while, weaving back and forth like blazing my trail forward; then it veered off to the northwest, precisely in the direction of my new home.
I certainly accepted this unusual experience as a waking dream, and one that relates greatly to my June question: ‘Why Am I Here?’
My initial personal associations with this sign include that the Eagle could be understood as an Animus (a masculine energy form) in Jungian terms, with keen vision, sharp talons to provide for its young; also as positive purpose and clear directionality.
Online some of the information I discovered about this image revealed:
- Eagles and hawks have the keenest vision of all birds; therefore they are symbols of visionaries and messengers;
- eagle with snake, in mythology, represents the conflict of opposites (a dialectical, dynamic fusion);
- the Mexican flag contains the image of a golden eagle on top of a cactus, grasping a snake: “the very image the people had been promised would direct them to the place they would make their new home.”
- Golden eagles do eat snakes but only as 2.9% of their usual prey; this has not even been reported to occur in New York state.
images are from pixabay.com
I am grateful for this sign which feels like a blessing for my purpose in my new home. May I serve Life here in whatever capacity I am able.
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Better Endings 