Flock of Swans

Yesterday as we were digesting a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, we sat on the back porch of my mom's house, which overlooks a small lake. As we sat there talking, suddenly, from around the bend came an entire flock of pure white swans. I have no idea where they came from, I've never seen swans on her lake before. There's a swan that hangs out at the big lake a mile away, but never have I seen another swan in the vicinity, let alone a whole flock! It was amazing and beautiful, and I wondered what it could mean? And where did they come from? Anyway, I looked up swan totems...



The Swan is one of the most powerful and ancient of totems.

As you begin to realize your own true beauty,
you unfold the ability to bridge new realms and new powers.
Swan can show you how to access the inner beauty
within yourself and in others.

A Swan totem heralds a time of altered states of awareness
and the development of intuitive abilities.
Swan people have the ability to see the future,
and to accept the healing and transformation
that is beginning in their lives.
Accept your ability and go with the flow.
Stop denying you know who is calling when the phone rings.
Pay attention to your hunches and inner knowledge,
and Swan medicine will work through you.

The Swan's call teaches the mysteries of song and poetry,
for these touch the child and the beauty within.

http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/swan.htm

And then there's my take, in addition to your post of an image I was re-working last nite......



Ah! The Winds of Change---Being gorgeous, powerful, wise, independant and strong yet still being dependant on the Divine!

This is what I heard Spirit say to me today. As I contemplate the situation I am presently in and where it may lead, I vizualised a very calm, mirror-like lake, whose surface reflected the sky above. The air was still. Then suddenly, a strange new energy from beneath the surface started to rise, troubling the current underneath. At the same time a swan, seemingly unaware of what was going on floated effortlessly by. I thought for a moment and then I could sense what Spirit meant for me to understand about dependancy/independance and inter-dependance.

The wind over the lake started to rise and now the surface was "troubled" too, but not the swan. The wind certainly had a mind of its own and was intent on "doing it's thing". What is this dependance yet independance? Does the lake need the wind to do what it intended to do today, or does the wind need the lake? The swan certainly needs the lake, but does it need both of them? Maybe its feet have been injured or deformed and in order to get to where it needed to go, it needed the wind to push it along.

I decided: Whatever the Swan and the Wind needed to accomplish individually that day was of their own choosing, but when they encountered each other, whatever they planned on doing alone previously for their own reasons, found a way to accomplish both their needs together. We all depend on each other's co-operation. For that, I am sure. (YOU CAN EFFORTLESSLY BE THE SWAN, TOO, MY FRIEND! Use your intuition wisely, but whatever you do with it, know that your need may be another's salvation simply because of your calm presence in the middle of a storm.