Last night, or rather this morning, just before waking, I was somehow involved with what seemed to be a Chinese person, who then was two..hard to explain..

I say "Chinese" because that's the impression I got.  But..the face was long and thin. 

The two kinda joined..then it was like a drawing, which I've tried to duplicate (I'm no artist, lol) and the last thing I heard was "remember magpie"..

I have no ideas on the magpie thing.  I know they are a type of bird..a not so nice bird, like crows.

Anyway, here is my rendition of the drawing..(sorry, green was the only pencil I could find)

Any thoughts?



Also, the first face I saw was the clean-shaven, smiling one.  The second joined..but seemed.."dark" somehow..

Thanks, Herb!  That about the magpie..makes more sense than I can even begin to explain..

A need to be free..of "truths" and "beliefs" that bind my spirit in odd ways..

A message from myself to me?   

Hi Shirley,

An intereesting experience. I love when that happens.  When I look at the picture and also what you wrote, "one looked clean shaven... the other dark, somehow" brings to mind also duality of our personna.  The fusing of our positive and negative images of oneself and trying to reconcile the two. 

In Ted Andrews book Animal-Speak, he speaks of the Magpie.  It's cycle of power being Winter and Summer and it signifying the "proper use of Intelligence, Familiars and Occult Knowledge.

They are the most intelligent of their group, among them crows and are very resourceful, using whatever is at hand.

"A magpie as a totem usually indictates that you are going to encounter the spirit realm and the metaphysical world in a different manner. You will enter into it and experience it in a way different from most-and often it is an unusual manner."

The questions he reommends you consider when magpie has shown up as a totem for you are:

Do you have knowledge and are not using it?
Are you employing whatever skills you have to get what you most need?

These are just excerpts from the text but hightlights.  I don't know if they resonate with you at all but thought I would toss it in the mix for you! 

Love,
Cheryl