Spirit Animal – Magpie

Magpies are very resourceful birds with a reputation for stealing anything that is not nailed down, especially if it is shiny.  Because of their characteristic of liking valuable baubles and for having picked up gold nuggets and coins, our Ancestors believed that several magpies around your house or yard, or around where you were working, was a sign of good fortune and abundance.

For those people with Magpie power, know that you need to pay attention to those shiny opportunities that come along from time to time.  Know that you need to take advantage of them.  It is the resourcefulness of Magpie that will help one to be successful.  Pay particular attention, too, to the sounds that Magpie makes.  One, alone, makes some noise.  However, congregations of three or more make a joyful (or not) racket that gets attention.  In keeping with the “squeaky wheel theory”, Magpie says that one must speak up and ask for what they want in order to be noticed.  If Magpie shows up in your life, and you have trouble expressing yourself, then Magpie says it is time to learn self expression and voice modulation.

Magpie’s black head is symbolic of the black cap of the grad – one that has learned all they can from school and is now ready to move on to something else.  In this case, Magpie says to move into using all your special gifts – psychic abilities and intuition – to feel more fulfilled and see the hidden world around you.  Black is also about the connection with the Earth.  All of Magpie’s needs are supplied by Mother Earth.  And, to balance the amount of time in the air, Magpie walks on Mother Earth quite frequently.  There may be a message in Magpie’s behaviour that you need to be out on Mother Earth and ground.

White is symbolic of spirituality and of higher consciousness than selfishness and greed.  It is time to start looking beyond the level of self gratification.  Magpie says to look inward and see what needs to be healed and then look to Spirit for guidance.  Magpie may be asking you to soar beyond your current limits.  Perhaps you are too grounded and need to balance the grounded-ness with delving in to new mysteries and expanding the current level of thinking.

What ever else may be going on in your life, pay attention to Magpie so you seize the opportunities presented to you.

May you walk in peace.

AUTHOR –   Judith  has been writing spiritual and technical blogs for the last thirteen years. She is a non-traditional shaman who has studied with shaman teachers from different lineages. As well, she has studied and uses Dowsing, Body Talk, EFT, Reiki, Quantum Touch, Hypnotherapy, Angel Karma Techniques, Angel Therapy, and has taught Star Talker Training classes. She is a seer and medium. The blog was originally posted in August 2008, and is reprinted with Judith’s permission.