Brought to you by Buffalo
One thing I keep forgetting to mention, is that since I started the AW, buffalo have been appearing everywhere.
Now buffalo aren't small animals, and they don't show up everyday. Take for example in January I went to the Fresno zoo where they had a buffalo. They had lots of other animals but the buffalo really got my attention.
Then last weekend I went to Golden Gate Park where I drove, quite by accident, right to the buffalo fields where a few were out for the day. I've never seen them out of their shelter until Sunday! Isn't she beautiful?
And then today, in the midst of my yoga dilemma, my Mom handed me a quarter for a parking meter, which I didn't need and stuck in my pocket. A Kansas quarter with a buffalo.
So I went home and looked up Buffalo in Animal Speak: The spiritual and magical powers of creatures great and small by Ted Andrews and it said:
The bison or American buffalo is a symbol of abundance and manifestation....you do not have to struggle to survive if the right action is joined with the right prayer (this is what White Buffalo Calf Woman taught the Lakota). I read about this first when I was troubled about praying, how to pray, and to whom I might be praying in the first place.
It also says:
The bison usually follows the easiest path. When we join right action with the right prayers, the path is not difficult...The appearance of the buffalo also implies that the law of synchronicity is operating within your life at the moment. Things will happen at the time, manner, and means that is best fo rus if we allow it. this odesn't mean we should sit back and do nothing, but rather that we should do what we have to do and then let the events take their natural course.
Ask yourself some important questions:
Are you honoring that which you seek?
Are you remembering that the divine is essential to all things in the physical?
Are you giving honor to yourself and the efforts of others within your life?
Do you show gratitude for what you already have?
The quickest way to stop the flow of abundance is by failing to honor that which has already come to you.
There's more in the middle, if anyone has also been seeing buffalo, let me know and I'll type out the rest!
posted by Julie @ 9:06 PM
8 Comments:
this. is. AWESOME! this post and the last two too. keep doing it! keep listening! all these helpful, and helpfully CLEAR messages - i'd say you're pretty much on track!! it doesn't matter to the universe that you want to run screaming, as long as you just keep laughing about it and you keep showing up. i love your tone through all this stuff. and it's all just so inspiring. thank you so much for sharing it all.
What an amazing message you're receiving... the synchronicity! Very inspiring
how cool is that?!?
the last time i did the aw certain animals were popping up for me. this time around it's owls.
i love that your animal is connected with increasing synchronicity. it's like a synchronicity squared! :-)
I didn't see a buffalo, but I did get to go to a lecture by Jamie Franki (on a A.D.). Who the heck is Jamie Franki you ask?
Well he is an artist and until 2 1/2 years ago he was leading the typical life of an artist. That is until his brother saw an art contest sponsored by the U.S. government. He had less than a week but he took the challenge, submitted his work and now his buffalo (which he named Bill after his brother) graces the back of the 2005 nickel. He also designed the front of the 2006 nickel.
That is really interesting. By the way, I had not heard of that book, I am going to check it out.
I love when the universe sends these kinds of messages! Thanks for the book link - It sounds fascinating.
Buffalo are such magestic creatures, aren't they? And I ALWAYS forget there are some in Golden Gate Park...thanks for the reminder. Isn't synchronicity awesome? :)
the buffalo has become increasingly present in my life and others i know. nothing in this life is a coincidence! i love the comment from eliza, "keep showing up." awareness is the key. so glad to be reminded that there is connectivity everywhere. be well.
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