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                    Feather Essences

 

F1. Mandarin Drake Cheek Feathers
 

Nervousness – fear, especially of confrontation – very sensitive to noise, sudden noise – on constant alert – startled easily – are so distracted by their fear and nervousness that cannot concentrate on the job/issue in hand. Tend to shrink back and hide, withdraw.  Deny that they had uttered an opinion – not just poor self-confidence but more from a fear that others will criticise them or reduce them to nothing.  Fear they will be preyed upon.

 

  • Easily startled

  • Withdrawn

  • Fear of criticism

  • Preyed upon

  • Nervousness

  • Fearful

F2. Demoiselle Crane Feathers.

 

Indecision – cannot settle – easily startled and scattered – scatter brain, scattered thoughts – thoughts are fleeting – cannot retain them – sensitive to noise, not scared by it, but sets them off into flights of fancy and imaginary images about the noise, what it means, where it comes from etc. Very imaginative and often ungrounded. Time is of little significance – drift through life – caught in their own stories and do not notice very much about people or the earthly world.

  • Indecisive.

  • Scattered thoughts.

  • Flights of fancy.

  • Very imaginative.

  • Ungrounded.

  • Drift’s through life.

 

F3. Peacock Feathers.
 
Small, strong and solid. Close to the ground, close to the earth. Watchful, observing, keen senses.  Ready to go, ready to step forward, but can’t quite do it.  They get stuck – a bit like OCD where people get stuck in a certain action and repeat it again and again, and cannot move beyond that action. A dilemma, whether to stay or whether to go. 2 steps forward, 1 step back, again and again. Tend to freeze where they are because of the indecision, this stuckness holds them in a certain position from which they cannot move.

  • Watchful.

  • Repetitive actions.

  • Stuck. Watchful.

  • Keen sense.

 

F4 Reeves Pheasant Tail Feathers.


Noisy! Make a lot of song and dance about their lives.  Lively speakers – entertaining. Good people to have at a party.  But prone to exaggeration. Live in their heads more than in their lives.  Talk about taking action and doing things but procrastinate – put if off – continue to talk about it. End up being quite self-obsessed. They are aware that they cannot actually put words into actions, but continue to create a façade which other people are fooled by. Others end up wandering and not knowing if this person has actually done what they are describing or whether it is all hot air.

  • Noisy.

  • Lively.

  • Entertaining.

  • Exaggerates.

  • Procrastinates.

  • Self-obsessed.

  • Creates a façade.

  • Confuses others.

  • Hot air.

F5 Golden Pheasant Crests.


Crotchety – pessimistic – grumbly – talk to themselves – look downwards rather than forwards. Get caught in their own self-circulating complaints about their lives. Literally as if they are going round in circles, and cannot break the circle, cannot break the pattern. Talk repeatedly about the same thing. Migraines, headaches – intensity of thinking. In their heads but physically restless too.

  • Crotchety.

  • Goes round in circles.

  • Migraines.

  • In their heads.

 

F6 Vintage Egret.

 

Take off and move forward, but with safety – stay within known and safe bounds so can get stuck in known and familiar patterns, that have served them in the past but restrict their progress now.  They do want change but want safety also.  They ‘travel’ the same migratory lines and currents almost automatically and innately and these provide a certain amount of success and stability in their lives. People around them will consider them reliable and faithful, but boring and unprepared to be spontaneous.  There is a self-containment about them which can be very hard to get through – like a tough leathery skin.  Can have heart conditions to do with the hardening of the arteries. Joint problems to do with deterioration in movement.  A hardening of the joints.

  • Stuck in patterns.

  • Self-contained.

  • Reliable but boring.

  • Joint problems.

  • Hardening of arteries.

 

F7 Mullard.


Old age and approaching death. A wearing out, or this is how people are feeling. A lack of fluidity – dried out.  Unimaginative. Scrawny – bodily and mind processes drying out  and shrinking. They need to be ‘hydrated’ again in some way and  this essence can assist that process. They are so ‘dried out’, it is their norm and they do not realise how extreme it is.  They are a little out of their bodies and unaware of how life could be better.  They accept their lot – easier than struggling.

  • Lack of fluidity – dry.

  • Unimaginative.

  • Dried out mind.

  • Accepting.

F8 Burgundy Eclectus Parrot.


Lovers of beauty, often unattainable beauty. The world feels too crude a place for them and hence there is a piousness about them. They tend to be disappointed and disdainful about life and people in general. Nothing or no-one quite meets up to their expectations, though they themselves are unable to reach that level either.  For example, they may be a lover of art but unable to paint well themselves. Hence lies their frustration, they cannot achieve the vision they have in their minds – it seems unattainable.

  • Frustrated.

  • Loves beauty.

  • High expectations.

  • Unattainable visions.

  • Distainful of life and others.

F9 Blue, Green, Black Macaw Parrot.


Shock – withdrawal – fly away – cannot face a traumatic event or situation. Cannot deal with it – have to escape through their minds and psyches and will literally run away, exit, if they are able to.  This response to a trauma in their lives then repeats itself as a pattern and a reaction to consequent life events and is often seen as an over-reaction. But the initial shock reaction is activated again and again.  This essence will help to clear the original shock/trauma and hence aid more appropriate perception of and reactions to life events.  Shock or withdrawal from traumatic events.

  • Repeats negative patterns again and again.

  • Over reacts.

  • Helps clear/heal original shock/trauma.

F10 Unknown (found at the Chalice Well).


Relax, relief, calm, sit back, smile. Restores relaxation after tension. Encourages expansion in the aura rather than the reaction of contraction. Enables warmth to flow through the body and mind where previously has been the chill of shock or tension.  Restores function where it has frozen. Aids circulation in all senses of the word.

  • Aids circulation.

  • Relaxes, calms, relieves.

  • Expands Aura.

  • Restores function.

 

F11 Jackdaw.


Flustered, going round in circles – as if headless chicken! Tremendous anxiety about carrying out a decision they have made. They have made the decision and know the course of action they want to take, but can’t quite move set it in motion.  They keep looking over their shoulder, keep looking back.  Move forward very slowly. Move one step, then stop stock still.  They are worried about leaving the old, no matter how stale or dissatisfying it was, and are unsure that they deserve the new.  There are self-worth issues here, and have usually had past experiences where they have been undermined by those close to them. Helps them dare to branch out.

  • Flustered.

  • Looks over shoulder.

  • Slowly forward.

  • Self-worth issues.

  • Undermined.

  • Helps you to branch out.

F12 Golden Pheasant.


Big swooping action here. A person who goes along with life steadily and consistently, but are a bit like a Eeyore character.
Morose and somewhat switched off. Life just goes along but with a general absence of joy. They are dutiful, have low energy – it is easier and less effort to stay as they are rather than put energy or effort into change. They may even, literally, ground to a halt, take to their bed. Run out of the energy to make any effort.

  • Morose.

  • Lack of energy.

  • Grounds to a halt.

  • Switched off.

  • Absence of joy.

F13 Turkey.


Distress. Young souls who really do not know which way to turn. Tend to be influenced heavily by many people or many ideas and cannot discern what is true and valid and what is not.  They proffer desperate calls for help, wanting someone to tell them what to do, which way to turn. This essence helps them to start developing their own instinct, to learn to listen to their own instincts and develop their own inner voice. There is a sense of fragility, of smallness and weakness about them.  Although in their distress, they are very vocal and ‘flappy’.

  • Distress.

  • Influenced by others.

  • Fragile and weak.

  • Develops own instinct.

F14 White Goose.


They are very silent in their actions and words. Do not express easily about themselves, their views or their decisions. Often make decisions, without thinking through the implications on their families, their loved ones, even their work colleagues. It is as if they are in an air stream of their own and are unaware of what goes on around them, or how they affect others. Then they tend to end up feeling lonely or let down or rejected, but have little self-reflection about
how this has come about.

  • Unaware of others.

  • Unaware of the results of their actions.

  • Silent in actions and words.

  • Feelings of loneliness, or rejection.

F15 Yellow Macaw Parrot.


Wrongly digesting information! Swallowing things the wrong way! Interpreting things incorrectly, which result in discord and puzzlement (unawareness) as to why things have turned out as they have. This essence brings enlightenment to a situation.  Helps them to see another perspective in order to adapt their own. They cannot be told by others but this essence will help new vision and awareness dawn! They then can set their course more appropriately and greater flow and harmony will result.

  • Interprets information incorrectly.

  • Enlightenment.

  • New vision and awareness dawn.

  • Greater flow and harmony.

 

F16 Pigeon.


Terrible fear of looking stupid, of being reduced in other people’s eyes. They are very sensitive to what others think of them – how they are observed by others. It strikes terror into their solar plexus and they freeze in whatever situation they are in.  They lose their nerve – freeze on stage or in public speaking.  Their instinct is to freeze so that their movement will no longer attract attention – that ‘everyone’ might go away then, leave them alone and not notice them. But equally, it is their fear that they are caught and all attention is on them.

  • Fear of looking stupid.

  • Sensitive to others view of them.

  • Centre of attention.

  • Freezes on stage.

  • Loses nerve.

F17 Magpie.


All things merge around them, be it water or sky. There is a huge feeling of space and often of emptiness. Can feel they are depressed and life seems overwhelming. They feel very small and ineffective. The world seems so big around them. They feel swamped by issues and problems in their lives and relationships. They can feel literally nauseous and light-headed, such are their nerves. Its affects their breathing and they may have panic attacks and swoon.  This essence helps them gently to edge forward and look at their lives and problems. It has a coaxing affect.

  • Depressed and overwhelmed by life.

  • Swamped.

  • Easily panicked.

  • Coaxing effect.

F18 Lady Amherst's Pheasant.


Unresolved relationship issues relating to attachment and commitment issues. Do I attach or do I carry on my own sweet way? Or attracting relationships where there is this dynamic – where a partner comes and goes, goes off and returns. Comes and goes – this is the dynamic energy pattern. They go off so far, but then return like an elastic band stretching and then contracting back.

  • Attachment and commitment issues.

  • Relationship that continually comes and goes.

F19 Duck.


Too sensitive – too open to psychic influences and the emotional influences of others. Their third eye and solar plexuses are too open. Often caused by sudden trauma of one kind or another in this life or brought from past lives. It is as if they are too sensitive for this world and find it hard to bear. They will compensate by needing to be alone and away from people. So can appear unreliable and unpredictable to their friends or people attached to them in some way. They will literally fly off in supposed disregard to others or others’ feelings, but it is really that they cannot bear to be there another minute and must seek their own space. They can feel claustrophobic and pressured by too many people around or too intense or too long an interaction with a person or people.

  • Too sensitive, psychically or emotionally of others.

  • Claustrophobic to too many people.

  • Needs to be alone or away from others.

F20 Turquoise Macaw Parrot.


People who feel they are dormant or dead in their lives.  Who go through the motions, are detached, and seem switched off. They do not engage openly with people or circumstances around them. They are passive and non-assertive. They tend to forget easily and not retain information. There is a dreamy state about them but not a pleasant state. They are emotionless on the whole.  This essence helps them to engage in life once more – moves them from a state of held breath to one of catching their breath and breathing once more. Like the first breath of a newborn baby.  It enables them to start entering into life again.

  • Forgets easily.

  • Dormant or dead in their life.

  • Emotionless.

  • Moves them on.

  • Starts life again.

 

F21 Green Parrot.


This could follow on from F20. For as the person breathes freely once more, they come into the pain of life.  They come into the intense colour of life and of their own feelings.  It is as if they have been walking through a shadowy world before, and now they are restored to the vivid, if not stark light of life and it is a shock and difficult to comprehend and adjust to as first. This essence helps with the pain of life, however that might present itself to a person. An example is grief – the loss of a loved one and the pain of that loss that rears up.

  • Becomes aware of the pains of life.

  • Restored to life.

  • Helps with the pain of life.

  • Breaks strands of past life.

F22 Blackbird.


Transmigration and transformation. For people who feel they are on the brink, who are literally about to fly off – change their lives completely – leave the country – start a new life.  This essence ensures that all past issues are finished to allow a clean break. Energetically, it helps to break any lasting strands of connection which might hold a person back or make them hesitate.  It is a state of initiation, when you must look forwards with no hesitancy. If you hesitate you will fall rather than fly.  This is the feeling. Breaking those final chains which have held you steady for so long.

  • Transmigration and transformation.

  • Breaking chains.

  • Moving on.

  • Breaks strands of past lives.

 

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