“Signs: Birds Talk to Me”

Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin’s shoulders in this illustration from
an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript.
Every night about six o’clock
Birds come back to the pond to talk
They talk to me, birds to talk to me
If I go down on my knees
– Private Universe lyrics (by Neil Finn / Crowded House)
Last week, a flock of birds demanded my attention in a way I could not ignore. Have you ever received messages from birds? It is more common than you might expect and, if your first reaction was to say ‘no,’ it could be more due to a simple failure of recognition.
Commonly, birds bring omens of impending loss or disaster, sometimes several days before the event. There have been times I’ve found a bird perched outside my front door, or even tapping with their beak on the window above my desk, and it is only a few days later when I learn of the passing of a friend that I make the connection. There are several theories as to how and why the phenomenon occurs… but first, allow me to describe my latest incident.
Read the entire blog article by Paul Young posted online June 15, 2020 at SouthernSunlight.com.









