Animal Guidance Series: Great Horned Owl Medicine

In children's books, cartoons, and in a variety of advertisements, the great horned owl is seen as a symbol of wisdom and education. It is also known as the tiger or hoot owl, and is an extremely adaptable large owl native to both North and South Americans. Its wingspan can be as large as five feet, and it doesn't have horns, but actually tufts of feathers that look like horns. Great Horned Owl symbolism is the ability to connect to the heavens and access psychic abilities, a connection as soft as a breeze, a whisper in the wind. Like all owls this owl makes almost no sound when flying. The strength and courage of the great horned owl relates to the warrior archetype, a fierce defender and very loyal. It takes about 29 pounds of force to open the crushing talents of a great horned owl. You could compare this to a mere 6.6 pounds for a barn hour. So, strength, courage, loyalty, stealth, psychic abilities, and connections to the heavens. It could also be symbolic of death, not just physical death, but death of a relationship or death of a project. During times of appeal and stress, the great horned owl can symbolize understanding patient truth and wisdom. All as a guidance. People often see owls when they are indecisive as a sign that it's time to make a decision and trust it. They bring hope, optimism and faith beneath their wings.

So call in the great horned owl for wisdom, insight, strength, courage, loyalty, psychic abilities, and connection to the heavens. Call on the owl spirit. “Call IT in With Dar!”

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In children's books, cartoons, and in a variety of advertisements, the great horned owl is seen as a symbol of wisdom and education. It is also known as the tiger or hoot owl, and is an extremely adaptable large owl native to both North and South Americans. Its wingspan can be as large as five feet, and it doesn't have horns, but actually tufts of feathers that look like horns. Great Horned Owl symbolism is the ability to connect to the heavens and access psychic abilities, a connection as soft as a breeze, a whisper in the wind. Like all owls this owl makes almost no sound when flying. The strength and courage of the great horned owl relates to the warrior archetype, a fierce defender and very loyal. It takes about 29 pounds of force to open the crushing talents of a great horned owl. You could compare this to a mere 6.6 pounds for a barn hour. So strength, courage, loyalty, stealth, psychic abilities, and connections to the heavens. It could also be symbolic of death, not just physical death, but death of a relationship or death of a project. During times of appeal and stress, the great horned owl can symbolize understanding patient truth and wisdom. All as a guidance. People often see owls when they are indecisive as a sign that it's time to make a decision and trust it. They bring hope, optimism and faith beneath their wings. As a creature of the night, they carry secrets and have intuitive information to fly into our lives with the intuition that many warrior-based tribes of Native Americans admire the great horned owl for strength, courage and beauty. In the southwest, it was believed that owls were reincarnated, slain warriors that fly about at night. The Great Plain’s tribes had mystic owl societies that wore facial masks of owl wings and tail feathers. Some Indian nations regarded the call of the great horned owl as a love call, a friendly spirit igniting human passions; the Hopi tribe and the Southwest associated this hour with fertility and abundance. During the winter solstice, the Hopi performed the ceremony with great horned owl feathers to summon in the heat of summer to help with their crops. Tribes in New Mexico use owl wing feathers to produce arrows to strike their enemy with muted sound. The Zuni held these feathers in their mouth during ambushes when striking their enemies with the silence like the owl. Overall owl medicine is symbolically associated with clairvoyance, astral travel, and both white and black magic. The owl is called the “night eagle” when it appears on several tribal medicine wheels. Traditionally the owl fits in the East, a place of illumination because the owl can see things that others can't. It is a sign of true wisdom and vision. The Greek goddess of wisdom, had an owl companion on her shoulder, which revealed unseen truth to her. If owl is your personal medicine, no one can deceive you, no matter how hard they try to disguise the truth. Sometimes owl medicine people know more about their friends and family's true natures, than the person really knows about themselves. Owl is befriending you and aiding you to see

the total truth and bring you the total truth in dreams and meditation. So, pay attention to signs and symbols. Look deeply within so that you are not deceived, letting truth emerge. So, call in the great horned owl for wisdom, insight, strength, courage, loyalty, psychic abilities, and connection to the heavens. Call on the owl spirit. “Call IT in With Dar!”

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