This reading is using my upcoming card deck: The Sacred Circle Spirit Animal Oracle.
This is a one card reading done on the North American Sacred Circle or Medicine Wheel. The card sits in the center of the circle and represents the Creator or Center Stone, which is said to contain the Void and all of creation—the stars, planets, Animal Kingdom, Plant Kingdom, Mineral Kingdom, etc. This Stone is governed by the Great Spirit and our Highest Self. It is the place of balance at the heart or center of the Sacred Circle where we can go within ourselves to access the wisdom and guidance needed from every aspect in the cycles of life.
MOON ORACLE MESSAGE
Animal Guide Medicine—Hawk, The Windy Moon (March 21-April 19)
Card #26: The Windy Moon (Red-tailed Hawk—March 21-April 19)
Question: As we continue in the reflective light of the Windy Moon through mid-April with its Spirit what is my Soul’s message from its Spirit Animal Guide--Hawk?
Teaching: The Red-tailed Hawk is the Spirit Animal that best represents the Windy Moon. It is the only bird that can fly above the Eagle, even though the Eagle can fly higher. Because Hawks fly to the Sun, they are the carriers of Cosmic Forces from the Absolute Sun of our origins. It helps us remember that we are children of the Sun who came from it originally. It carries the higher processes and consciousness from our origins and brings the medicine of the Sun—enlightenment and self-realization from the Spirit Realms—to teach us how Cosmic light came to Earth. From its vantage point near the sun, Hawk sees both the broader perspective as well as the tiniest details on the landscape below. Hawk Medicine will teach you how to use the powers of observation to find the solutions needed to solve stressful or difficult problems. Hawk is also a powerful guardian and protector in Indigenous American traditions.
Meaning: When the Red-tailed Hawk rides the wind, it maintains awareness of everything surrounding it, but Hawk does not allow anything to distract it from its chosen purpose. Hawk’s laser-like focus will teach you how to target a clear goal that is in alignment with vision from the Higher Realms and concentrate on it with intention. Using Hawk’s focus acts as a catalyst for igniting your psychic abilities to reveal your true purpose in life. By learning to observe and focus like Hawk, you will become aware of the intensity of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual forces surrounding you at a given time. And you will be able to channel that intensity of energy into solving a problem in accordance with your life’s purpose.
Hawk is a powerful guardian and protector who is fiercely protective of its offspring and territory. Hawk acts as a powerful buffer who can bring abundance, safety, and healing to you. It encourages you to take steps to protect yourself from internal and external interference with a degree of confidence. Hawk will reveal, with the Sun’s golden rays, when it is time to remove yourself from a situation or relationship and will remind you that you are not always at the center of others’ decisions. Hawk will cast light upon anything within you that you have been avoiding and will liberate you from any limiting beliefs. As a guardian and protector, Hawk can reinforce and deflect anything that diminishes you or Higher Purpose and can help you perceive the bigger picture under its protective wings.
The Red-tailed Hawk’s precision in movement will teach you how to attack the problems in your life, consume the wisdom from the lessons presented by them, and bring leadership to yourself and others. Through flight, Hawk communicates with Great Spirit to awaken your foresight and inspire you to use your creative energies to extend the vision of your life and lead others with enlightened service. If you are willing to fly with the Red-tailed Hawk on wings of freedom, joy, and assurance, you will be able to negotiate the intense energies of your inner and outer landscapes with optimism and confidence. It’s time for you to spread your wings with the Red-tailed Hawk and engage with the Clear Sight of the Sun to fulfill your Soul Purpose.
Hawk is considered an oracle by many Indigenous Cultures. Since Hawk can see things from the highest perspective of the Creator when it flies to the Sun, it can bring vision and clarity to the Invisible World. It can strengthen your psychic gifts—especially your gifts of clairvoyance, inner seeing and vision. Hawk can teach you to see the light in the energy field of all living things including the grid or ley lines of the planet. And it draws from this light to bring you messages from the Divine that can help you find balance, purpose, and direction in your life.
Haiku Meditations
The Windy Moon-Hawk (March 21-April 19)
The Red-tailed Hawk stares
Through my eyes with clear sight
From the Higher Realms
Actions
What is Hawk Calling Me to Do currently?
Teaching-Change, Self-expression, Protection: In Native American thought, the Wind is born from the necessity of motion to bring things into manifestation in the physical world. The Lakota Sioux believe Wind to be one of the 16 Great Mysteries of Creation, and it is one of the Supernatural Beings. It is the breath of life for all of Earth’s children and is both gentle and destructive.
When you sit in the center of a Sacred Circle, the Wind can come from any of the four Cardinal Directions or from the four points in between which provide you with many perspectives to understand your Soul and find the balance between them all. The Winds of the Cardinal Directions are considered positive, but the Winds in between bring challenges to those in their path. They are the Winds of the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest. In Northern kingdoms, they are called the Chinooks; in the South, they are called the Santa Anas. During the Windy Moon, the winds from all directions are active at once pulling you in different directions until you find your stability at the center of them. They move from the ocean, across the deserts, the mountains, the plains, and the valleys as an unseen force that affects all aspects of the Motion of Life.
Soul Message: During the Windy Moon, the Father of Winds, Tate, blows across the Earth carrying the seeds of the life force to ensure that they are passed down through the generations and to provide new growth from the best seeds during the longer days of the Sun. Tate carries the seeds to their new destinations or places of growth and loosens the top soil for cultivating the new ground where the seeds have been deposited. But Tate can also carry away the Seeds of Discord. In both cases, the Father of Winds whispers for you to flow with the winds of change, so you can let go of any discord and make the necessary changes for you to plant your seeds on new ground for your personal evolution. The changes can be major or minor, but it is up to you to make the appropriate shift. If there is a life change you have been avoiding, it’s time to take the steps to cultivate it. Whether you make a change in diet, your career, your place of residence, your hairstyle, it is up to you to follow the deepest promptings of your Inner Self to flow with the Wind into positive change and outcomes.
When Hawk comes on the Winds of the eight directions, it offers you protection and strength to help you survive the challenges of change through wisdom. Because it flies to the Sun, Hawk is believed to be the wisest bird of prey. But it also soars with the wind and accepts the changes of direction gracefully. When Hawk appears with the Wind, it brings the wisdom and liberation of knowing what to change and how to change it, so you can receive the seeds of new life and celebrate the potential of what is to come. But you must first ask.
Hawk is also one of the strongest and most highly protective birds of all the raptors. It fiercely guards a offspring and its territory. Hawk’s piercing shriek reminds you that your life and needs are unique. But it also urges you to look out for your safety by taking steps to protect yourself from internal and external interference. The Windy Moon Hawk brings you its light of confidence to help you keep your self-esteem intact. With all the winds swirling around you, Hawk reinforces your strength and ability to deflect anything that diminishes your higher purpose. If you become a conduit for the Light of the Sun, like Hawk, you can express your Higher Self and open to accelerated lessons and experiences of growth.
When you are pulled in all the directions of the Wind at once, Hawk comes to bring its focus to your purpose. When you are trying to accomplish too many things or are spinning with the Wind in too many directions without clear intent, Hawk comes to bring its laser-like focus to the situation. It will cause you to examine the direction where you are unnecessarily expending energy, so that you can choose a single path and walk in the direction it leads you. It will help you concentrate on one path, see it more fully, and receive greater insight about where you are really trying to go. Then, your newfound commitment to your chosen path will interact with your Inner Guidance to keep you on track to experience success by sharing your gifts of seeds with others.