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Ever since I can remember squirrels have been a vigilant and familiar constant in my life. Adaptable and always prepared for both pleasant and unpleasant changes in life, they are the animal equivalent of hardy boy scouts and girl scouts. At first they did not welcome the RavenCrow visits in the surrounding trees when I was living in the Mountain Park section of Lake Oswego, Oregon, complaining to me about the noise of their rather loud cawing chorus. Eventually Squirrel made peace with RavenCrow, as always adjusting with panache to the exigencies of the times. Now whenever they hear them in the nearby trees they scamper forth in anticipation of the raw peanuts that will soon be placed beneath the spreading boughs for all comers to enjoy. No one is better at turning a potentially negative encounter into a positive experience than Squirrel. Two of the squirrels that often visit a sacred grove near my current residence in Ponte Vedra, Florida communicated their names to me as Ratautos and Rauwynne. Ratautos is courageous and feisty and often tiptoes across the small outer ledge of my second floor screened porch and gets my attention so he can wish me blessings and glad tidings. Rauwynne is charming, gracious, and very pretty. Shortly after I started leaving them raw peanuts under the trees in the morning, she came rushing up to me one afternoon as I got out of the car. Rauwynne came right up to me, stood on her hind legs with her hands outstretched and telepathically communicated the following message, "Thank you so much for thinking of us, for caring about us, and for being hospitable to us." On a different afternoon, I was playing the Lord of the Dance CD with the porch door open when I noticed Ratautos and Rauwynne dancing together around the trunk of one of the tree. Ratautos asked me telepathically, "Does it bother or hurt this tree in anyway when we dance up and around the trunk, tapping our toes on the bark?"
When I communicated that I felt that the tree really seemed to enjoy
their rhythmic movements, they both seemed to sigh with relief, followed by a feeling of radiant happiness. "We would be very sad if we had to stop dancing but we would if caused the tree any discomfort," Rauwynne said, as she playfully nipped at Ratautos tail and they scampered up the trunk
and across a large branch towards a neighboring tree.
I was working on the Animal Speak Archives where communications from many different animals were to be posted when I asked Ratautos and Rauwynne, "Do you have anything you want to say to others about what you do and why you are here?" Their reply consisted of several interconnected messages. "We have been the messengers between the Devas, the Sidhe, and people for so long now our memories stretch far, far back into the past. It seems a very long time indeed for us and you see time is like a continuous skein to us. We partnered back in the days of yore when romantic love first thrilled the ethers with its sensuous joy. When we saw earlier cultures fall into lethargic forgetfulness we began storing some of the harvest away for seasons of scarcity. We are guardians of the forest, especially the trees and their roots. We honor the old ways, the ways of the sacred land." I interrupted our telepathic conversation to go and watch something on the television. About five minutes later when I was sitting on the loveseat facing the screened porch with the connecting door open Ratautos ran across the ledge and then nimbly and with great verve climbed up the outside wall over the top of the porch and up onto the roof staring intently at me with his mind's eye. "I'm showing you how easy it is to climb to the top of the World Tree if you travell lightly without fear or excess baggage. If you trust in goodness to support you, your heart will sprout healing wings of love and you will truely be empowered with just the right amount of momentum to transcend all boundaries. You don't need to move mountains. All you really need to do is move yourself to the clouds above them. It so easy if you have faith in the ancient nature ways." Around ten minutes passed as I ruminated on his message and then Ratautos returned and said, "You understood my message but there is more to it," He once again ran up to the top of the roof and then very deliberately with zeal ran back down the side of the outside wall to the ground and with firmly planted footsteps, one after another, walked over to a tree and back up to one of the lower branches and gazed intently at me once again.
"Reaching the top of the
World Tree is only part of the journey. Once you have rested awhile you must
come back down the World Tree again to share the wisdom and knowledge with
others. We are One Family united in Spirit. The rainbow forms a sky bridge of
renewed hope through the storms of life so that others may realize that there
are many sacred pathways but they will all led us home someday."
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