Blessings, Darlings!
Dear Gods, I just tried 'reading' the same of a murmeration of birds as an omen. Not that I had just asked a question or had an issue that I needed guidance on in my mind. Hey, it looks like boobies! That, and the cow that was nursing, must mean that everything is tits! And tits are great! So everything is great!
Well ... that's not quite how omens work.
While omens can come in myriad forms ... there are some constraints on what constitutes one.
One vital constraint is setting. If you haven't just asked a question or have an issue preoccupying you - then whatever you see is probably not an omen. Most stuff is just the world doing its thing. Cows with calves nurse their calves. Murmerations of birds happen when a lawn tractor moves towards where they are feeding. Snakes - or deer or bunnies or turtles or squirrels or whatever - cross roads. The beautiful yellow flickers now around the house are here because the thistles have gone to seed and these birds LOVE thistle seeds. As noted in the Psychopomp blog: it's not all about you. But if I just asked a question or was pondering an issue - that one of them showed up RIGHT THEN might be an omen/message/whatever.
Another constraint is that you understand it/can interpret it. A message you can't understand is worthless as an omen (or a message from the Gods.) If it's a symbol that means nothing to you, then it's extremely unlikely to be an omen. You shouldn't have to do further research on an omen. If it's a message from something that comes in Gaelic ... that message isn't going to be something I can use, so isn't what my psyche will have picked up as an omen. Th FACt that I'm picking up Gaelic MIGHT be. An omen in Hebrew I'd be able to understand, even if it coming in Hebrew is unlikely to be important.
Sometimes repetition indicates an omen. That wouldn't be true here about the 'cow nursing', even tho' Hathor and I have somewhat of a relationship - the fields around my house feature at least 25 cows that are still nursing their calves. Mice in my basement is just an sign that we failed to block all the ways that they have been getting in. Deer around here tend to eat the same patch of vegetation every day at the same time until they've eaten it all. Crows are common. But if I have something on my mind, and while I'm out doing things I repeatedly see murders of crows on the buildings I'm entering that day ... that's a sign.
Go forth and be amazing.
Frondly, Fern
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