Animal Totems: The Spirit of the Kookaburra

When we lose someone close to us, in particular our partners, it’s only natural we look for signs. Signs that their spirit is still around and watching over us.

I’ve always believed in signs but now they have a much deeper meaning for me. I’m blessed to have received many. Red Robin’s are synonymous with signs and many speak of Robin’s in a garden as messengers from the spirit world. Alias where I live, we don’t have Robin’s but I am blessed to have many birds in my garden among them six Kookaburra’s. These are four of them; Mum, Dad and two adorable kids.

Now my garden is well established my Kookies spend most their day snacking on the many delights on offer; insects and worms. My garden offers them both a haven and an abundant feeding ground. But I also receive something in return. Perhaps the stories of old explain why.

Aboriginal legend says the kookaburra’s infamous songs of laughter each morning is a sign for the sky people to light the great fire that illuminates and warms the earth by day, the sun. King Kookaburra is a sun god of sorts and bursts with male energy. There is an opposite element assigned to the kookaburra as rain and creeks become the Kookaburras day spa they love the water.

With fire and water at the heart of the kookaburra’s spirit, this animal totem is a powerful one, bringing change and sentimental memories to the forefront of our lives. The kookaburra is a healer, a healer of the past, helping to close and open new and old doors in our lives. He is not the bringer of change but the orchestra to accompany you on your new journeys of the self.

The grief journey is the loneliness journey many of us will ever have to take. I find a level of comfort to think my beautiful little Kookies are accompanying me on my journey. I feel it’s fitting they call my garden their home.