Heron and Egret

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Heron and Egret Empowerment

Egrets and Herons are very large wading birds with long sharp

beaks and tall skinny legs. They fly slowly with steady flaps of

their wings, and with their necks retracted s-style. Egrets are

white while herons are blue-grey. Their cry is a low harshcroak.

They nest in trees beside water lands, building large platforms

of sticks and twigs about 20 to 40 feet off the ground. In

April they breed and lay 4 greenish blue eggs. The chicks are

aggressive and frequently not all survive to leave the nest.

After about three weeks they try wandering along branches,returning to the nest to feed. A week later they are hunting for

themselves.

Herons are part of the wetland ecology. Minnows, frogs and

crustaceans flourish in the aquatic plants such as eelgrass.


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Meadow voles, like mice, live in the dryer grass of winter.

Crickets and grasshoppers are also eaten. Some egrets perch on

water buffalo and eat the insects stirred up as the beasts move.

A heron stalks its prey, and can wait patiently while its keen

eyes watch the pool depths, before swiftly striking. Herons have

few natural enemies. Eagles will take the chicks but avoid the

long beaks of adults. Humans can harm the eggs with insecticides

in the food chain.

Myths about these birds

In Welsh the heron, crane and stork were all called creyr. These

birds were seen as a symbol of life and death. They brought

babies, like the stork of the Netherlands, but also were an ill

omen of death. Warriors would put heron images on their armour

to scare the enemy. Crane-headed goblins were thought to haunt


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marshes. Some heron images show up on pre-roman celtic coins.

They are shown riding or perching on ponies. This could be

similar to egrets in Africa that perch on water buffalo to eat

the insects stirred up by them.

In the Irish legend of the Cailleach an Teampuill (the hag of

the temple) her four sons appear as cranes who can only regain

human form by a sprinkle of bull's blood. There was a taboo on

the eating of cranes and herons, for the birds might be the souls

of the departed, and by eating anything linked to death, you

would soon die or at least be forced to stay in the otherworlds.

Egyptian:

Phoenix(Bennu)

Appearance: The

Bennu bird was a

large imaginary birdresembling a heron.

The bird may be

modeled on the gray

heron (Ardea cinera)

or the larger Goliath

heron (Ardea goliath)

that lives on the

coast of the Red Sea.

It had a two long feathers on the crest of it's head and was

often crowned with the Atef crown of Osiris (the White Crown

with two ostrich plumes on either side) or with the disk of the

sun.


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Meaning: The Bennu was the sacred bird of Heliopolis. Bennu

probably derives from the word weben, meaning "rise" or "shine."

The Bennu was associated with the sun and represented the ba or

soul of the sun god, Re.

The Bennu was also associated with the inundation of the Nile

and of the creation. Standing alone on isolated rocks of islands

of high ground during the floods the heron represented the first

life to appear on the primeval mound which rose from the watery

chaos at the first creation. This mound was called the ben-ben.

It was the Bennu bird's cry at the creation of the world that

marked the beginning of time.

The Bennu was also considered a manifestation of the

resurrected Osiris and the bird was often shown perched in his

sacred willow tree.

The Bennu was known as thelegendary phoenix to the

Greeks.

Herodotus, the Greek historian,

says the following about the

Bennu:

"Another sacred bird is thephoenix; I have not seen a

phoenix myself, except in

paintings, for it is very rare and only visits the country (so they

say at Heliopolis) only at intervals of five hundred years, on the

occasion of the death of the parent bird."


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Herodotus goes on to record that the Bennu bird came from

Arabia every 500 years carrying his father's body embalmed in

an egg of myrrh. This Arabian bird however was said to resemble

an eagle with brilliant gold and red plumage. Before the phoenix

died it built a nest of incense twigs and laid down in it and died.

From its body a small worm emerged that the sun's heat

transformed into the new phoenix.

Another story says that the phoenix rose again from the burnt

and decomposing remains of his old body and took these to

Heliopolis, where he burned them.

The planet Venus was called the "star of the ship of the

Bennu-Asar" (Asar is the Egyptian name of Osiris). The Bennu was

also sometimes associated with Upper Egypt.


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Shamanic Meaning of the Heron

Some people think the heron's spiritual qualities include strong

independence, patience, determination, keen alertness, success

in the hunt, aggression, and the ability to walk in two worlds,

along the magical edges of things.

A heron is comfortable in water, mud, sunlight and the offshore

wind, so the elements are at its disposal. Fairy folk who love the

fringes will honor this totem.

The creator gods and goddesses who needed assistants tofind the earth when all was hidden under the waters of chaos, in

trans-siberian lore, used birds such as diving loons, eider ducks,

and cranes.


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How to heal with this attunement

Just say aloud (name of system) once and let the energy flow through your

hands and heal as you usually do.

How to take down this attunement

Just say aloud I am now accepting the attunement to (name of system)

from (name of teacher) in a way that is good for my health and spirit. So be

it.

And relax for a few minutes. You may sense energy tingling in your hands or

warmth, or if you close your eyes and let your mind drift away, you may see

unusual pictures. It really doesnt matter. It works even if nothing is sensedat all.

How to give this attunement

Just say aloud I now attune (name of student) to the energies of (name of

system) in a way that is good for both of us, in health and spirit. So be it.

Or you can put the attunement in a chi ball of imagined energy and let the

student pull it down when convenient.

Best wishes and love and light,

Stewart

Disclaimer: This energy system is intended for relaxation and wellness and

spiritual growth, but people with medical problems should of course continue

to see their doctors and get medical advice from a professional

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