Owl musings and birthday helper

As you might recall, a while back I had a vivid dream about a great horned owl. The entry was here. The following day we found this beauty near its pelvis, two talons, the other eye orbit shattered beyond salvaging, bits of brittle rib cage, and some feathers yet to be cleaned.

Late this morning mom entered the den and wheeled me out into the back yard. A crow had been barking incessantly at something in the neighbor's tree and was still going strong. At first I couldn't see anything else there until suddenly a gargantuan great horned owl burst into flight, hounded by the crow! They took off to the west toward the mountains.

Tooling around on google earlier, I found the old page wolfs_moon.tripod.com. It's a rectory of Totem animals and their symbolism. Barring the typos and leanings to the Newage side of things, this information struck me curiously. I was also stunned at how similar owl symbolism is to the lynx symbolism I've uncovered and pieced together through the years.

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