Daily Angel Oracle Card: Blue Heron, from the Medicine Cards, by Jamie Sams and David Carson, Illustrated by Angela Werneke

Blue Heron:  “Self-Reflection”

“Blue Heron… Thank you, Sacred Waterbird,
For sending reflections to me;
The mirrors of the quest for life,
The worlds that live inside of me.

Show me how relationships work,
With my path woven within the whole.
The lessons of kinship with all life,
Reflecting my spirits eternal goal.”

“Heron medicine is the power of knowing the self by discovering its gifts and facing its challenges. It is the ability to accept all feelings and opinions without denying any emotion or thought. Heron flies over those who are unaware of who they are and where they belong in the world. Gently dropping a blue feather to them, Heron asks that they follow their intuition and begin the empowering journey of self-realization.

If the great Blue Heron has flown into your cards today, it is urging you to dive into the watery world of feelings to seek your truth. Heron teaches you to develop your self-reflective skills so that you may come to know yourself in an intimate way. Looking at yourself through the filmy lens of self-importance, the cloudy perceptions of low self-worth, or the myopic eyes of self-pity, you will never understand your true potential or appreciate the opportunities that appear.

Heron asks that you examine yourself with a cold eye to see what you wish to improve and how you want to change. If you get stuck in the process, it may be a sign that you are being too hard or critical. Choosing to blame others and constantly pointing a finger at life’s situations, instead of claiming responsibility for your actions, shows that you lack the courage to face the enemy within.

Heron medicine people are willing to look at themselves and see the truth of their motives, actions, feelings, dreams, goals, inner strengths and inner weaknesses. In balancing those truths, Heron’s medicine shows you how to meet the challenges of your personal weaknesses and how to continue developing the skills that lead to inner strength and certainty of purpose.

Are you willing to dive into the watery depths of your own feelings and discover the role of your spiritual essence? Heron is now calling you to delve deeper, to know yourself, and to trust your path. Like the Phoenix, who rises from its own ashes, Heron emerges from the unseen worlds of spirit into a new balanced sense of self in order to embrace its potential again and again.

The magnificence of your human spirit lies waiting for the joy of discovery, if you are courageous enough to follow the waterbird throughout the journey. Heron reminds you that every traveler on life’s journey is a messenger, and that every destination is the beginning of a new life cycle on the Medicine Wheel.”

As Challenger: “Surprise! It may be time to come up for air if Heron arrives as challenger. Too much self-reflection can lead to self-obsession or a morbid sense of humor. If you have been looking within and criticizing yourself, watch out! It is imprudent to drown the sense of joy that usually accompanies the journey of self-discovery. You may have assumed the attitude that perfection is desirable. That may be what advertisers sell you, but that attitude leaves no room to be human. Oops! You learn some of your most valuable lessons through your mistakes. Wouldn’t life be boring if everyone was a plastic clone of an ideal human?

Challenger Heron also reminds you that self-improvement is best accomplished by balancing the desire to change with gentle discernment. There are many layers of truth to understand, and wholeness is impossible to attain in one dive. You do belly flops when you become judgmental, rigid, and flat. Diving deeply into your feelings, you may emerge renewed. But, being too critical, merely floating on top of the water, you will callously break your spirit in the process. Heron reminds you to dive deeply, but do not hold your breath while waiting for instant or total enlightenment. If  you do not resurface for air, the collective feelings of humanity and the infinite depth of eternity can drown you.”*

~ By Jamie Sams and David Carson

This message is asking us to remove the layers of the past that could be getting in our way of gaining clarity for the future. We need to remove the lens we are looking through, give it a good clean. This will allow us to see through all the illusions that we have allowed to cloud our vision. Past pain or experience, trauma, hurt feelings, feelings of lack and belief systems all need to be looked at very closely at this time. What is it that you are holding on to, that is weighing you down. Heron is asking you to release all unnecessary cargo, for it is time to soar.

There is no point holding anyone else responsible for what you have been through, let all that go, it is time for a fresh start, a clean slate. But only you can clear your slate, it cannot be done for you. Only you can awaken to the fact that in actuality, your slate has always been clean, from one moment to the next. We are the ones who fill it with our limitations, boundaries, and beliefs.

This is the perfect time to incorporate your “why” into what you are intending to create. Finding your “why” is powerful, it allows you to get really honest with yourself. Why do you desire what you desire? Is it for the Highest Good of All? If so, move forward fearlessly.

However, if there is any shred of: showing someone what you are truly capable of;  proving yourself right or someone else wrong;  living up to someone else’s expectations of you; or doing something out of spite, revenge or even compromise… then maybe it is time to re-evaluate and get really clear on what you want, and why you want it. Only then can you bring it into being.

Once you decide what it is that you want, even if it is just a feeling or a state of mind or being, then you can start to create it.

Getting really honest with yourself is the only way to start.

Namaste

Dee

~Archangel Oracle

*Medicine Cards, by Jamie Sams and David Carson, Illustrated by Angela Werneke