A client asks: “Since the healing, I was driving to work early in the morning yesterday and two birds were present on the road and as the vehicle approached, one moved and the other did not and I hit it and sadly, it died. Then today going to work at around the same time in a similar area only around 10 or 15 yards away from the previous incident two birds again were present. I really slowed the vehicle down and yet somehow the same events repeated: one flew away just in time and despite doing everything possible to avoid the one left, somehow the vehicle hit it and again it was killed. In driving over 20 years, I do not recall ever having collided with a bird before. My instincts say this means something, can you shed any further detail on potentially what this could mean or signify?”

First of all, we can tell you this is nothing sinister that has resulted from any of your recent doings nor your past history and makeup bringing even more negativity your way to experience, nor is it a backlash of some kind from the darkness to taunt you or seemingly suggest there has been a setback of some kind to thwart your spiritual goals and endeavors. This is truly a sequence of events that is the problem of the birds in question and not owing to you or your makeup. It is simply the case that these birds have within their flock, individual animals that are waning with regard to longevity and are less astute, less aware of their surroundings, and their reflexes are slow to engage. They have become very accustomed to the human presence, including things like automobile traffic, and no longer associate it with a hazard. The extent to which they have lived the length of time they have, is due more to some remaining skittishness, so if a car approaches too near, they cannot help their instinctive response to flee and this saves them again and again. When these reflexes and instincts dull through aging, they may become too complacent for their own good and then have less and less sense of alarm when they are truly in danger, and then there may be a near miss or, in fact, a fatal event as you have participated in. So this is no fault of yours nor shortcoming in not being able to avoid this. It is, in fact, nonbird‑like behavior to be so very vulnerable. As in almost all cases, birds will easily get out of the way of approaching vehicles and it is more the case that they are hit by automobiles when they are in flight and not paying attention, and may fly in front of a moving vehicle because they are looking in another direction and less attentive, thinking they are safe while airborne, unless seeking a landing spot at the moment, and then must scrutinize the terrain extremely carefully to avoid branches that might be in their way, etc., if alighting on a tree or a manmade dwelling of some kind. So you can set your mind at ease about this. It is just being a part of the end stage of these birds and being a catalyst for their transition, which was inevitable before much longer anyway.