`Aha Update #20: Interdependence, Open to the signs, The Gift of Pelicans

"... Wednesday, Cancer Venus perfects its trine to Chiron. Thursday Venus’ square to Uranus is exact. Healthy desire requires growth and understanding. Sometimes that condition sparks a sharp turn that takes people by surprise...Wednesday the Moon pulls past square to Saturn and into sextile with Venus. Let the warmth of the day soak into your skin and make your senses bloom. Later Wednesday the Moon moves to Venus-ruled Libra and a square to retrograde Juno in Capricorn. The scents don’t last, but our memories of them will. It’s possible to create a lasting ver[s]ion from imagination. Or at least an impression to follow and build on."- Satori

Pelicans are new to me except in picture books or cartoons. My first experience with living, flying Pelicans happened a month ago. Yesterday as Pete, Doodles, Hope and I walked the long stretch of beach at The Muliwai a family of 6 plus 4 American White Pelicans circled above us. They were high in the sky, but their flight signature --a straight line, was recognizable. Maybe it was that same family the resident Pelicans who now make Whidbey their home place. The brief video above was my excitable response to yesterday's visitation.

I am a Scorpio, looking for clues is hard-wired into my nature like Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. As with Sir Arthur Canon Doyle's fictional sleuth my scent for mysteries is so often multi-faceted. A seemingly unrelated event will send me sideways or into deep water to make sense or string clues together. The Leo Solar Eclipse was more about walking the beach and being with water (we three humans represented the three Water Signs of the Zodiac) than staring into the heavens to watch Father Sun and Mother Moon making love. (That's just bad manners.)

Six American White Pelicans riding the thermals above Sunlight Beach, "The Muliwai" in Washington

This morning I am in my sleuth mode, considering the events of the visitation from Pelicans and the slow unfolding journey to Elsewhere. Our friend Hope and I walked side-by-side and at one point she asked how our plans were coming.

"We've made changes." I explained how the wild fire smoke was an undeniable message about our wish to return to Hawaii where vog is ever present especially on Hawaii moku where Pele is busy making new land.  Pete added the news he discovered about the recent Hawaii PUC (Public Utilities Commission) approval of the HuHonua plans to chip and burn thousands of acres of eucalyptus trees to power the island of Hawaii. The eucalyptus plantation and site for the burning is Pepeekeo on the Hamakua Coast not far north of Hilo on the opposite of the island from the activity of Pele (the volcano). In our fondest dream it could have been the Hamakua Coast that we would tow Vardo for Two. 

The gods have something else, an Elsewhere, in mind for us. My morning investing led to thoughts about Pelicans. And this point of view:

"I have been experiencing the cooperative aspect of pelican energy while writing about them. In late February my wrist broke after falling on ice hidden by powder. Independence became interdependence. I deeply appreciated the example of animals getting what they need, in some cases without hand-like extremities. In pelicans, bills act like hands and tools, even as a food basket! ... This interdependence with others is a precursor of the kind of cooperation in community that will increase in the future. As earth changes like the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and the floods in Pakistan and Australia continue as the Mother rightfully rebalances herself, we must all pull together caring about each other in the reality of Oneness. Do you work well in conjunction with others? White pelicans hunt and feed cooperatively while afloat together. In synchronized swimming, they herd schools of small fish into a cove or surround the school in a tight net. All will dip their beaks into the water at the same time as they advance. They even sunbathe in synchrony. It is not unusual to see a flock all facing the sun, heads back, bills tilted toward the sky..."- Wisdom Magazine 

As we continued our beach walk I asked our friend about her casita in Mexico. "Where is your casista?" I asked. 

"Sayulita," she said. Hope described the location of the village on Mexico's Pacific Coast and then pulled up videos on her iphone of  Sayulita waves rolling into shore while the sun set on the horizon. The sound of waves activated an old longing. I remembered backstroking across ocean water. My belly hummed.

"When you go there do you fly?" I continued feeling the fire building in my belly.

"Yes." She said. I wondered if there was another way

I asked, "Have you ever driven there?"

"No, but friends have done it." She was feeding that fire of Hope. (That's her job.)

"If you think you'd like to drive there with your home I could talk with friends about being able to camp on the land." The fire blazed just a bit more. I looked at Pete the Cancerian who was pulling into that shell of his (That's what crabs do when they need protection.) 

He mumbled, "I'm going to Canada." That's not south, nor warm I thought to myself.

When the Pelicans showed up minutes later flying in a southward path, that whooping was the combined 'WHAT IF, WHY NOT?' of two little water women fanning the flames of new definitions. The scent of those new definitions are newly informing me. I have long wished to visit and perhaps live in Mexico for so many reasons.  The astrology for this week of the Solar Eclipse in Leo include this from Satori, "The scents don’t last, but our memories of them will. It’s possible to create a lasting ver[s]ion from imagination. Or at least an impression to follow and build on." 

Perhaps the Pelicans know something we don't. The mystery, the game is afoot. Throughout this summer of weighing out the wishes and the healthy doses of mundane reality, there is always the presence of messengers: Raven, Pelican, Squirrel, Hope. Satori's horoscope above cautions her readers "Healthy desire requires growth and understanding. Sometimes that condition sparks a sharp turn that takes people by surprise." We are right where we are now grateful for life as it is. 

There are details dangling left right, north and south; and growth takes time. Wasn't it Donella Meadows  one of my heroines who observed 'Nature's pace is slow to medium?" Elsewhere knows where it is. Do we know the way? Not exactly, but we have a scent or sense of it and the Pelicans have come two New Moons in a row. In the company of others, seems the message. Interdependent. Go where you and Pete and Vardo for Two can be interdependent.

Environmental Illness or MCS and interdependence seems a contradiction in terms. Isolation too frequent a reality. Pelican seed us with your wisdom. Feed us from that abundant bill and pouch of yours. We are open to learn, really we are.

Have you any experiences with Pelican?

xoxo Moki and Pete

Pelican related links that might interest you:
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-pelican-meaning.html
http://balancedwomensblog.com/animal-spirit-guide-pelican/