Everything is Different Today

Summary

The author, White Feather, experiences an unusual morning filled with a profound sense of change despite the absence of significant external events, and attributes this feeling to the recent new moon and the departure of a family of hawks that had been a constant presence in their life.

Abstract

White Feather wakes up with the unsettling feeling that, although everything in their room appears unchanged, their world has somehow transformed. They note two specific changes: an uncharacteristic oversleep and the mysterious absence of the hawks that had become a daily fixture outside their window, coinciding with the new moon. Despite no apparent global catastrophes or major news, the author feels an inexplicable, positive shift and is convinced the universe has delivered a significant message through the hawks' departure. This message remains unclear, leaving the author in a state of curious anticipation and reflection about the nature of this profound personal change.

Opinions

The author believes in the significance of the new moon as a time for initiating change, as evidenced by their recent fictional story about it.
They hold a positive view of oversleeping on this particular day, contrasting it with the usual irritation caused by disrupted routines.
Hawks are seen as messenger birds by the author, who also acknowledges the astrological belief that Mercury, associated with communication, can influence daily life.
The absence of the hawks is considered "spooky" and is thought to be a direct communication from the universe, though the meaning of the message is unknown.
The author is perplexed yet optimistic about the inexplicable feeling of change, suggesting that it might be too early for the initiated change to manifest physically.

And I’m trying to figure out what happened…

Have you ever had one of those mornings when you wake up and abruptly feel like your whole world is somehow different? You look around your room and everything seems exactly the same as when you went to bed the night before but everything FEELS differently. You are immediately convinced that something has happened but you have no idea what.

That is the kind of morning I’ve been having today. While I have been able to identify two things that are definitely different, this feeling I have of EVERYTHING being different goes far, far beyond those two little things.

The first thing that was different is the fact that I overslept… or slept in — I’m not sure what to call it because it is something I almost never do. I have written about how I am a morning person and always get up before the sun pokes its big fat orange face above the horizon. But when I woke up this morning I looked at the clock and it was 9 o’clock sharp. (There’s that number 9 again.) I had overslept by almost 3 hours!

I had missed out on my pre-sunrise walk and my sunrise ceremonies and my morning meditation… not to mention breakfast.

I slept until 9 in the morning! The last time I overslept/slept in was almost seven years ago! Plus last night I went to bed about an hour and half earlier than I normally do! I got over ten hours of sleep which is at least three and a half hours more than normal.

Normally on those rare occasions when I accidentally oversleep it makes me feel cranky. It ruins my day. But today when I woke up I felt extra wonderful — except for the underlying feeling that something major had happened. After booting up my laptop I immediately checked the news to see if some earth-shattering event had occurred. Normally I make it a habit to never read any news before 12 noon. But there was no such news; no terrorist attacks or mega-earthquakes or hurricanes making landfall or celebrity deaths. It was just the same old boring Trump unreality show.

No, the world wasn’t any different. So why did everything FEEL differently?

Yesterday was the new moon and I wrote a fictional story about it (The Ending and the Beginning). Yes, I did in fact initiate an element of change in my life in conjunction with the new moon but today is just one day later. It is far, far too early for that change to manifest. Things don’t happen that quickly. Right? Besides, there is no evidence of that change having happened yet.

There is just this strange overwhelming FEELING. And I can’t figure out what it is.

But there is one other piece of tangible evidence of change. Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing about a family of hawks that had invaded my world, moving in right outside my window. (Encounter With a Hawk, New Birds in the Neighborhood, and Hawks, Doves and Dreams) For the last few weeks every time I would look out my window I would see some or all of the hawks sitting on the telephone pole and power lines and I would hear them screeching all day, every day.

Well, guess what? Yesterday, on the new moon, the hawks left! I have not seen nor heard them at all yesterday or today. They’re gone!

How spooky is that?

Hawks are messenger birds. They resonate to the planet Mercury, which is the messenger planet (messages and other forms of communication can get screwed up when Mercury goes retrograde). Apparently, the universe has been sending me a colossal message and it has been delivered but I don’t know what the hell that message is.

Could that explain this unidentifiable FEELING I’ve been having ever since I woke up this morning? It must be a good message because this FEELING is certainly a good one — except for the confusion of not knowing what the hell it is.

Have you ever had a morning like this?