The Hawk and the Dove

Last Thursday I was leaving work at dusk. There were lots of storm clouds and purple colors at sunset. As I’m getting into my car, I see a huge bird of prey with about a 5 foot wingspan flying over. I follow it as far as I can until it folds its wings in toward its body and dives at great speed. All of a sudden it is flying back with a dove in its clutches – it’s a red-tailed hawk! What an awesome sight. It starts circling and I keep trying to follow with my eyes, and I tell the universe thank-you for this beautiful experience – I wish I could see more as it flies away. I get in my car and reach the driveway. While waiting for traffic to pass, this beautiful hawk comes back around and lands on the light post directly in front of me! Her presence is commanding and majestic, regal, beautiful, powerful. She has the dove still in her grasp, and I wait for her to eat, but she does not. We seem to be looking at each other, and I feel like she has a message for me as we look eye to eye: “Take the dove and accept that it is yours…”

I ponder this for several days. I find out that in many cultures/religions the hawk is a messenger, a symbol of wisdom, and often a symbol of the human soul.

I believe now that she is me; she symbolizes my essence, my true self – and the dove is Love. She does not question whether it is right to take the dove; she knows it is entwined in the cycle of creation – just as the dove knows it is inseparable from the whole. “Question not whether you are worthy of Love; Love is here for the taking, accepting. It knows that it is one with you…do you know that you are one with It?”

Love to all, Libra88 :)