Crow Spirit Medicine

March 28, 2012

Kathryn V. Crabbe. 2012. Crow. Pencil on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches.

With each new birth there is a small death. Spring has sprung and so I sketched a crow that died. He was tied with a wire around his legs to a fence made of sticks gathered from the chaparral surrounding us here in the inland valleys of rural Southern California. I am not responsible for his death nor for tying him to the fence. I sketch what I see, but this made me sad. This drawing is my way of blessing and acknowledging his crow spirit.

Crow Medicine: “All things are born of women.”
from The Greenwood Tarot by Mark Ryan and Chesca Potter.

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