The love for our feathered friends came along with the love for photography. This is a haunting dream and I’d probably want to re-enter it a la Robert Moss’s Conscious Dreaming to get more answers about it.When I was little I was fascinated by animals but never paid much attention to birds. In any case, I might even take it literally to pay attention to something happening in my left arm…an injury or check the skin for melanomas- woodpeckers dig beneath the bark of a tree for bugs. I’d want to know who the other two people are in my dream and I’d note that they might correspond to the other two woodpeckers in the dream, too. It would be interesting to examine my own relationship with my mother and why I can’t release those issues, and/or my own motherhood and what’s going on with that. Arms in general represent embracing relationships and the left has to do with the maternal side (for me this resonates as it’s the maternal woodpecker that won’t let go of my left arm!). If it were my dream…I’d say that woodpecker was really trying hard to get my attention, so much so that it sent a family of woodpeckers to me in dream and would not let go of my left arm. Woodpecker comes with the message that you have the foundation and it is now safe for you to follow your own rhythms. We should find our own beats of the drum to follow in our journey and do what is best for ourselves and not what others might tell us to peck at. The Babylonians associated it with fertility.īasically, woodpecker is the symbol of the rhythm of life and of discrimination. In Greek mythology the woodpecker sat on the throne of the god of thunder, Zeus. Europeans felt that the woodpecker was a prophet of the weather as it drummed out the message that change was coming. Most have to do with the drumming or the pecking rhythm characteristics of this bird. Many cultures have lore and myths that include the woodpecker. Often, when we meditate about the real animal, it opens up or drums up the message that the spirit animal is trying to convey. He might also be telling you to drum new changes into your life.Ī good book to read about how the woodpecker lives in the wild along with images of different types of woodpeckers is the one below. That might be the reason for the visits from woodpecker. We humans, often, get so wrapped up in our daily mental and spiritual activities that we do not pay attention to our physical needs. Rhythm is a pretty powerful means of affecting physical energy. We might find that the woodpecker has pecked into our vision to stimulate new rhythms for us to dance to. Do you just jump into a new situation with no analysis of what is involved?.Are the people around you discriminate? Are you?.Are you looking at your life rationally?.If you are being visited by the animal spirit of woodpecker there are a few things that you should be asking: When we dig into a book for knowledge we feed on the wisdom we find. They peck holes into trees and wood to get grubs and other insects for a meal. We can associate the act of digging in to a topic for more analysis with the woodpecker, too. Even the pecking that we associate with the woodpecker is a symbol of these same reflections. New ways to look at things or new wisdom in general. It is associated with the stimulation and wakening of new mental faculties. The red found on the head of many species of the woodpecker symbolizes the stimulation of mental activities and also the head chakra centers. Sometimes, things can be pretty clear when we look at them in a black or white perspective. The black and white of the feathers tells us that we should be seeing the issues and aspects of our lives clearly. Most of them are colored with black and white feathers and many will have at least some red on their heads. Obviously, there are many different kinds of woodpeckers in the world. Many a shaman has learned to ride the drum beats into a different dimension. A couple that come to mind are the rhythms of new life to shapeshifting applications. The drumming of the heartbeat of earth has more than a few mystical connections. In many American Indian traditions this bird, the woodpecker, is connected to the heartbeat of Mother Earth herself. My guess would be that if it is not a bird that you see often, if it came more than once, or you dreamed about one, that it is most certainly wanting to share some lessons with you. Then again, if you have landed on this page you must have had some sort of inkling because you searched to see what the meaning might be if the woodpecker is working as one of your totems. Perhaps you had never considered that a visit from a woodpecker might be a message from an animal spirit wishing to guide you into some wisdom.
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