Eagles have extraordinary gifts of vision. They gather up the long view, seeing for miles, while attentive to the details in life nearby. Eagles’ vision is expansive, wide and deep and clear, while they soar with the winds, hunt to feed their eaglets, perch steadily in the stillness, and pause to have a look around.

Eagles’ vision guides their travels through all kinds of dimensions with ease and natural grace. They roost in towering pines, coast on the air, touch down on the earth, collect branches and build ingeniously designed nests, and reach their talons into rushing river currents to catch swimming fish all the while flying on wide open wings.

Eagles guide us to remember to widen our view, exploring various realms in any particular circumstance. The nearby and far beyond. The physical and nonphysical. Inner and outward focus. The now and future possibilities.

We can expand our awareness to gather up the long view across land and water and miles, through seasons and cycles and generations, beyond borders and fences and walls.

As hatchlings, Eagles instinctively peck open eggshells to leave behind the entire universe they’ve known. They navigate this remarkable passage with unopened eyes, utilizing other ways of seeing and sensing to find their way. They are living according to inner blueprints, the intelligence of their inner sight, to express their eagleness.

Eagles don’t see edges as endpoints, rather thresholds to move through and explore. The edge of the eggshell. The edge of the nest. The edge between branch and sky. The edge of the high mountain ridge.

These are places to land, pause, and observe. Edges are places that invite visioning to deepen, broaden, and stretch toward the mystery. Edges ignite curiosity about what exists and might be found and could be created in the spaces beyond. Edges are places for launching, leaping, and freely taking flight into the pure expression of being alive.

Carry Eagle Medicine with You in Everyday Life

See what you see without judgments. Judgment-free seeing gives birth to clarity and a wide range of choices. Seeing without judgments is a way of living rooted in keen observation, genuine relationship, and a universe of creative possibilities.

For humans, learning how to see what you see without judgments, and embodying this way of living, are how we join up with the brilliant nature of life and all the other beings on our earth.

When we are stressed or afraid or stuck in the rut of old familiar patterns, we tend to shut down our vision. We’re only able to see a very narrow field as if we’re peeking out through a tiny crack in a barely opened door. Our thoughts will grip tightly to well-entrenched ideas about ourselves, others, situations, and life. We’ll habitually rely on a few familiar options for what to do or think or feel or say next.

With eagle eyes, we can open up an expansive field of sight ~ sensing the long view while attentive to the particulars of what exists in the close-in spaces and current time. We can be present in the now and envision the future, and learn to utilize these generous gifts purposefully.

In the ways of the Eagle, we can extend our vision beyond known horizons, beyond the edges, beyond manufactured borders, divisions, and walls.

When we reach beneath the surface of things, we’ll find a dynamic living world full of energies, emotions, bodies of knowledge, and boundless creative potentials. Is there something here you are seeking and want to catch and hold?

Expanding our vision, inwardly and outwardly, awakens our capacity to naturally express our humanness and passionately find our way.

Eagle Medicine instills the majesty of soaring on wide open wings and seeing with the eyes of the heart.

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EAGLE SPIRIT

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