I'm listening!

One of my favorite childhood games was Rook (another name for Crow/Raven). My siblings and I could and did play for hours. Game after game, we noticed that if I received the black 14 in my hand, either through dealing or drawning, I never lost the game. It became a bit of a joke, and I would celebrate my "Lucky Black 14" rather loudly. Ever after, 14 became my luck number.

This morning, I was reading about the Hawk totem that has appeared for me recently when this portion caught my attention. In Animal-Speak, Ted Andrews writes:

[Hawks] can live up to 14 years in the wild.
This "14" is significant. The 14th card in the tarot deck is the card for Temperance. This is the card that represents the teaching of higher expressions of psychism and vision. It can be used in the development of astral projection -- new flights out of the body. It has ties to the activation of your vital energies (kundalini), and the bold expression of it. It is tied to the archetypal forces that teach beauty and harmony in moderation. It holds the keys to higher levels of consciousness.

I have always been magic.

I just stopped listening for a little while.

I'm back now! And I'm listening.

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