Oracle cards
Ornithomancy
Omen
- Deck
- Oracle cards
- Card
- 15 of 33
Pay attention, because the signs are all around you. Your internal alarm is not set, so this flight of birds is telling you that you are making a large mistake. You may be flying very high just now, but you can fall quickly and hurt yourself badly on landing. You are already on the wrong road, but do not worry: it is not too late to turn back. Ask yourself what actually matches your truth and your integrity, and act accordingly.
Fly above the commitments you have taken on; free your mind and your heart so that your soul can soar.
Verse
I know that all that glitters is not gold.
But of this error I had not been told.
Turn back, the omens say to me.
I am careful now, and not defeated.
Other meanings
Never ignore your intuition, the messages or the signals. Think before you do anything that takes you off the right road. Someone is not being honest with you. This is not the right moment for new ventures. Do not go any further just now.
About ornithomancy
The ancient Romans released doves and read omens and signs from their flight patterns. That was how the augur interpreted the messages of the gods and knew whether they were satisfied or not. Divination based on the flight, the calls and the behavior of different birds goes back to the ancient Greeks, though it is found in other tribal cultures as well. The many peoples of North and South America, the Australian Aboriginals and the Polynesians all placed great weight on the behavior of the large seabirds and the birds of prey, both to learn about the world and nature around them and to learn more about the spirit world of the ancestors.