Owl Totem

I've heard the owl in the morning 3 or 4 times now. This time I went to the back door and tried to repeat its call to see if I could roust it out, but no luck. It has to be nesting nearby since I've heard it so many times. I did some online searching and found audio files of owl calls and the one that sounded most similar to what I heard was the Great Horned Owl.

I wasn't sure if they were indigenous to Indiana, but according to this web site,

http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/birds/bird154_1.html

they're prevalent throughout the state. I also learned some interesting tidbits, such as; they don't build their own nests, but take over abandoned nests of crows, hawks, even squirrels and they lay their eggs in the winter. It's odd that I've come into contact with owls so frequently in the last year. Granted, I have been hiking more, but now the owl seems to have followed me home. J told me about an eerie experience he had as a child encountering a white one in the barn and then the first hike we took together we saw and heard one. It started me thinking about animal totems and the possible meaning of encountering so many owls.

While googling around, I've found some interesting excerpts about owl totems and people connected with them.

The owl is the symbol of
the feminine, the moon and the night.
The owl is the bird of magic and darkness, of prophecy and wisdom.

~Keywords~

Messenger Between Planes Clairvoyance Wisdom
Reincarnation Freedom Sight Beyond Illusion
Secrecy Mystery Lunar Magic
Healing Conveyor of Omens
Swift Movement Prophecy
Shape Shifting
Perceptive

Often, they are voracious readers and will feel a little unbalanced when they are not entertaining their minds enough which may eventually manifest as physical and/or emotional ailments, hence it is vital for their sense of equilibrium to challenge their minds via new studies, reading stimulating books or taking up new endeavors that will later be fashioned from the base material of knowledge into applied principles that become another wellspring of Owl Wisdom.

Great Horned Owl is the Messenger that Portends new cycles and the vehicle through which the two-legged beside whom Horned Owl flies will receive their messages is most often via the gift of Clairaudience (The supposed power to hear things outside the range of normal perception..)