![]() ![]() Then, like peering through a looking glass, noticed a figure on one of the contour feathers among those in her belly. I stood memorizing every single feather on her body. In my book Gracious Wild: A Shamanic Journey with Hawks I tell the story written on the breast of my best friend, Graccia the female red-tailed hawk I worked with in a raptor education program: Relationship to the TribeĮach red-tailed hawk has a unique plumage (coat of feathers), so despite the fact that they are literally one in a million of their kind, each is a unique individual with an important story to tell. This is a common feature of hawk feathers and speaks to how they are able to navigate multiple altitudes and embody many layers of understanding. Many of a red-tail’s feathers are “barred” with multiple dark lines. In grounding out the guidance (black line) the realms of spirit (white tip) are available even in the lowest, most mundane places. Red-tails are divine messengers meant to bring guidance from the heavens and ground the guidance out in the physical world. If you look closely at the tail of a red-tail, you will see a thin black horizontal line running across the base of the feathers with each feather tipped by white. Red as a color relates to love, anger, and passion, matters we’d typically associate with the heart, but this is the personal heart, the one that ties us intimately with those we come into contact with on a daily basis. To have red feathers at this chakra that is characterized by the color red amplifies the power of this message and demonstrates how integral these hawks can be in helping us work through healing wounds around our sense of belonging in tribes. Here are our worries about being humiliated. Here is where our insecurities around being abandoned, outcast, and left alone are held. The first chakra relates to situations and circumstances around family, friends, and community. The red tail feathers of this hawk are extremely significant as they bring strong power in relation to the first chakra, otherwise known as the root chakra. Seeing red-tailed hawks is such a common occurrence that one may miss the significance of red-tailed hawk symbolism all together, but just because a host of angels are sent to the skies above you doesn’t mean you should ignore them. ![]() The are also very conspicuous, found throughout North America in nearly every type of open or semi-open habitat. In a sense, they are the labrador retrievers of the hawk world and both in spirit and in the flesh they can be our loyal best friends. It seems that the spirits prefer to send red-tails as messengers because of their gregarious and more approachable nature. The male hawk, known as “Pale Male”, has an entire film documentary about him, his various mates, and his young. There is a famous red-tailed hawk that has nested on the side of a skyscraper on the edge of New York City’s Central Park for over twenty years. Red-tails adapt easily to life with and around humans and, in general, are more in service to humanity than other hawk species. ![]()
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