Sharings from the Heart by Julia White Tips From a Crone - Suggests making a broom with smaller feathers to sweep off energies collected in our auras. Shaman Ways Links on Healing, Power Animals. Excellent chapter on the use of feathers in healing. She also shares her personal experience with a woodchuck, illustrating how animal totems teach us in our daily lives. Walking along the banks of Flint Creek I stoop down among the mud, sticks, and washed up stones looking for fossils.
Crinoids are especially easy to find here.
I look up and see a deer looking at me in the distance. As I look back down at my feet the wind stirs up and a stray bluebird feather gently drifts within my reach. I grab it up and quickly braid a handful of my hair to weave the feather into. According to Ted Andrew, author of Animal Speak , the appearance of the bluebird is a reminder to take time to enjoy yourself. He also notes that blue is the color of the throat chakra and creative expression.