Hi, I came to this through exploring many dreams. This one is an obvious one: In another dream I got on a bus - double-decker. An old lady made room for me to sit at the end of one of the three seats. As we drove away a very large - chicken sized – baby bird flew in. It had short sturdy wings and yellow down, but flew expertly. I believe it first landed on the lady and chirped squeakily. But in its squeaks it actually spoke, saying it had lost its mother. It sounded as if it were crying. I said I would care for it, and thought how Léon, I and family, could make a nest for it. I wondered what to feed it on - meat or veg?
This was about the time when as a three year old I was separated from my mother, and felt that I had lost her. When I actually met this I went through weeks of constantly crying, couldn't sleep, and much else. So that was my baby bird needing help.
Another dream of a four feet owl perched on a tree, is as follows: While I worked on the dream, a beautiful feeling came that the owl related to me or understood me because he saw me with a mate. As a wild thing he could understand mating and togetherness. Life knows through its millions of creatures what it means to partner a mate and rear young.
The tree I felt as the seasonal growth. In other words the end of a period of my life and the beginning of another. I felt I had come to the end of one phase of growth or maturity, and awaited another.
The owl represents initiation. It is consciousness that simply watches the unconscious, all the boundaries of consciousness. This is like the owl watching the dark ground at night, and in that way is nourished. It is the natural forces of my own being that I meet in an initiatory way. I nearly missed relating to this fundamental part of me in that I was so busy doing ego things to become well-known - by phoning the newspaper etcetera - that I almost didn’t relate directly to the needs of this developing inner awareness. This means that our ego consciousness, unconscious self, is allowed to expand its awareness deeper into the realm of the natural unconscious forces of being, only when it has learned to respect them, and relating with mutual respect and understanding. The owl is hooded, that represents the egoless state – going beyond ego desires and needs
Feeding it connects with Hyone’s love. All this summer she has been bringing the pieces of chicken from work. It shows how, out of giving to others what we do not directly need for our own survival, we express and build into ourselves one of the great mysteries of nature - self giving. That, and the meditation - Be still, and know that I am God - is part of what I need to build into my being.
Tony