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Hon, I'm going to encourage you to look at the stages of growth and development pertaining to whatever seems to be emerging spiritually for you right now. What Heron is bringing you pertains to the Medicine of this creature-teacher in some way and you would mark your progress by the growth and development. I'll give a hypothetical example here and hopefully that will help you a little.

Self-determination and Self-reliance that are aggressively worked at are going to be the hallmarks of what you're now learning in some way.

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a) after a few weeks, the young heron tests their wings;

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Whatever the lesson is for you, it is only going to take a few weeks to experience before you test it in your life some how. You're going to find a need arises calling for you to test this new knowledge to resolve the issue. It's likely to be very personal...an issue that belongs to you. (We always learn to hone our gifts, abilities, or knowleged on ourselves first.)

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b) at approximately 42 days he is at adult size;

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Within that 42 days your knowledge, through this testing experience, will have fully grown to understand how it functions. You'll hold the full scope of that...maturity of the lesson.

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c) after 60 days the heron leaves the nest;

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At the point of 2 months you would likely take this knowledge and the skill you've developed around it out into the world. You would use the knowledge to help others who are learning this lesson themselves or would benefit from it. They would come to you, seeking your assistance, we do not seek them. This is how you know who you are to help...they must ask. It will likely be initiated through close relationships first (short flights from the nest) where family, friends, or acquaintances are in need. From there it may be a neighbor or someone in your community expanding outward from there.

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d) mature sexually at 2 years of age

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The maturity of your knowledge through these experiences leads to wisdom at approximately 2 years after onset. You've made your mistakes, had your successes, and through that experience you recognize where, when, why, and how to apply this knowledge or skill...or not.

Since Heron teaches an assertion toward self-reliance and self-detrmination, this is going to be about finding some form of inner strength and courage, likely born out of a need or circumstance in your personal life. Once understood and accomplished you'd share that with others who need to learn to stand on their own, or depend upon themselvs instead of others for their strength, perhaps against very strong odds. (An example might be someone trying to overcome the control of another as in a partner; to free themselves from some sort of abusive situation; to free themselves from an addiction...anything that would call for them to fight for their strength to stand on their own through a determined will.)

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It is interesting that both the male and female take turns sitting on the eggs for about 28 days, and both parents feed the young heron.

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If the eggs incubate for 28 days and are nested by both parents you can look for one full Moon Cycle where the concept of what you need to learn to do for yourself must incubate within you. (Tossing things around inside yourself before you recognize how to go about things...cracking your shell/blockage or challenge and initiating the birth of the lesson.

Both parents tending this....you have the balance of the masculine and feminine nature here...through the masculine you will find the aggressive actions you need to apply to the lesson's teachings and to bring up from yourself to achieve them (determination); through the feminine you will have the more passive reliance (nurturing mother that does what is necessary no matter what, does it quietly because it needs doing, and takes on the responsibility by nature).

For those 28 days you will learn to receive the insights and balance them by actions to get your footing with the lesson. Only through balance will you feed on the knowledge and digest it...a delicacy...a delicate state of balance...carefully tended. So this will be something you learn to do on your own, and the Medicine of Heron is your key to understanding this and your guideline or model to follow in your applications.

Masculine is active, electric energy, aggressive, it is in motion of projection. Feminine is passive, magnetic, receptive, it is in motion of attraction. How to you attract this lesson to you and what do you do to balance it and use it?

Just some things to think about. *S* Wishing you well with it.