(Sunday, August 9, 2015)
I get up early this morning to prepare for “Yoga Church.” Heading to the kitchen to make my chai, I see a buck walking past the dining room window. This is very exciting to me: we see females quite often but it can be years between sightings of male deer.
He is a young buck, with just three or four points to his antlers. Bucks are often solitary creatures, but two smaller deer are following behind him. The two seem to be twins, and they are males as well. Their antlers have two small prongs.
According to Jamie Sams’ Medicine Cards, deer embodies unconditional love. And to the Celts, buck was the King of the Forest. The crown of antlers symbolizes consciousness reaching into the realm of spirit and magic.
British namess for buck: stag, hart.
An hour later, the young Swainson’s hawk I saw yesterday lands again in the pine tree outside the kitchen window.
Wow, Nature is communing with you! Very nice.