White Water Fowl

I now have counselling every Thursday afternoon in Fazakerley Hospital with a lovely man called Alan Corkish. He's an interesting guy who used to teach drama at one of my old schools and then retrained as a counsellor. He's still involved in the arts to this day.

During a recent session, he pointed out something to me. I talked about the only pub I feel relaxed in - The Swan in Liverpool City Centre, the fact that I like to walk along the canal bank and feed the water birds - including swans, and there were some other examples of swans turning up in my life which I've forgotten for the moment, but I bet I'll remember as soon as I press the 'Publish Post' button.

Swans and swan imagery are turning up in my life over and over again.

Not long after the suicide attempt, I was browsing the Internet, flicking idly from page to page, and for some inexplicable reason swans were turning up left, right and centre. I wasn't even looking for them.

One example of this is concerned with Whitby Jet. I am a big fan of this 'stone' and have recently started to collect it. When I was looking on eBay on the day of the 'swan' synchronicity, I came across the Whitby Jet swan pendant you can see at the top of this entry. I felt strongly directed to bid for this item, and despite stiff competition, I won it!

I have done a lot of reading up on swans on metaphysical websites and basically swans represent grace.

I am still trying to digest all of this as I type this, and no doubt will be for a while, but I have a strong suspicion that the swan is my power animal.