Finding Your Voice
Starling Medicine
The starlings are back … they nest in the roof space above my porch. Many have mentioned that maybe I should get the fascia fixed. Yes they are noisy, but I’m reluctant to evict them as I have my own code of honour to consider and process first. Yet I never reflected on their medicine until this morning.
I was bought up with the belief they are a quintessential English pest, spoiler of summers with their noise. My father bought an air rifle to shoot them - and missed - killing a Dandelion and, to my 7 year old horror - a Butterfly ! I was aware of the significance even then ... and I had read Roald Dahls 'Danny Champion of the World' ... He never used that rifle again.
Last night with my small group immersive we have arrived in the North. Place of flight, freedom and Ancestral wisdom.
What had been coming up for all of us really strongly was our Voice - how much it had been suppressed and conditioned into silence, keeping the status quo, being nice … and for how long … way back into the ancestry of both our genetic and spiritual lineages.
How the sense of survival and continual resourcing, trapped them into silence and the perpetual loop of fitting in … in order to survive. This may be a cage of our own making, but it is one significantly rooted and embedded in the past. There is much to be unravelled.
Starling is all about voice … they are loud, noisy and expressive. Even in their body movements, as I hear them settling down for the night.
Another gift for me hidden in plain view. For after decades - the significant healing of my self-expression has taken place here, in the five years of living in this cottage, with the Wrens, Crows and now Starlings as my guides.
When my father shot that butterfly and missed the starling, he may have been shutting down his own transformation, but he was gifting me my voice.
These messages are hidden everywhere in our life stories. For me Shamanic work brings a new perspective that helps us peel back the layers and reveal what has always been there. Our stories talking to us and waiting for us to listen.
More than that.
Hidden within is an invitation to reweave and co-create a life story of your own making, from the threads of your dreams and desires.
with much Love
rom my Heart to yours,
Tania Aurora White Crow