If the woodpecker appears, he asks you to “knock” your life and put it to the test. Is everything in balance? Where would you rather not look though it is necessary? What are you suppressing?
What do you most want to sweep under the carpet? The Woodpecker challenges you to look closely and have the courage to bring these hidden things to light.
He encourages you not to let these things continue to bind and devour your energies.
Be brave and the woodpecker will always accompany you! With him at your side, you can also find hidden shadows and “maggots” in the wood of your life and redeem them!
Woodpecker – Spirit Animal
The woodpecker leads you into your own power. He helps you to manifest your dreams and desires. The woodpecker has a great energy, he spares no work to achieve his goals. Assertiveness, determination, diligence and stamina are some of the qualities that he strengthens in you. He challenges you to take charge of your life and realize your dreams!
With the woodpecker as a power animal, a sacred (!) Bird accompanies you, who is treated with respect and even reverence by all the peoples of our earth. The woodpecker is considered holy to the thunder god DONAR, as his hammering shows the thunder and his bright red hood the lightning.
The woodpecker connects you with your power of prophecy, foresight and knowing intuition. He is an oracle bird, and from his flight, his scream, and his drumming, you can interpret the future if you let him teach you.
They challenge you to see and understand your life as a whole! Everything is part of it! What would our life be without death? What value would we give him? And how terrible and cruel would it be if death never came?
Everything is exhausted, comes into being, exchanges with other beings and returns after a certain time. Common, medium and small woodpeckers teach you that everything is allowed and necessary. Let go of what wants and has to go, and joyfully receive what comes and stay for a while.
The Green Woodpecker carries the power of healing and healing to you! His green and red plumage sends you the message of health and blessing! Understand: on the energetic level you were, you are and always will be healthy, whole and healthy! Nothing in life can ever change that.
He challenges you to walk through your life in full confidence and confidence and to accept your life teachings simply as these: they teach / teach / instruct you – no more and no less.
The Green Woodpecker connects you in a special way with heaven and earth. He teaches you to fill you with the little things in life and to give you many moments of little pleasures in everyday life – because the sum of these joys gives you deep happiness!
Woodpecker – Totem
Woodpeckers have found a home in all parts of the world, a total of 200 species are recorded. In this country, especially black, green and spotted woodpeckers have settled; these can be seen in forests and gardens, but also on orchards, their favorite place. Certainly, the black-white-red great spotted woodpecker has often attracted your attention.
However, the great spotted woodpecker not only attracts attention because of his striking plumage, but it is above all his loud knocking with which he makes his voice heard as it can be heard for miles around.
His reputation, which is very reminiscent of a laugh, is extraordinary; thus, the great spotted woodpecker deserves the name laughing bird. If you are a cheerful nature, self-consciously go through life and the everyday life but rather win the beautiful pages, then you stand with the power animal woodpecker in close connection.
Vitality as well as your stamina are qualities that connect you with the power animal woodpecker and which ensure your progress. What else connects you with the power animal woodpecker? You are also very similar to your power animal woodpecker in terms of your diligence and unrestricted use.
So you spend an impressive amount of energy to put your plans into action – no task is too big for you and you do not bother to achieve what is right for you in your life.
Sometimes you make others aware of your intentions and activities, if you are convinced that this is to some extent beneficial to you. The woodpecker is just as persistent and powerful when he hooks himself to a tree trunk with his curved claws and knocks on the bark with his strong chisel beak to chop up the wood and thus get food.
The woodpecker proclaims happiness and vitality. Through his drumbeats, the woodpecker communicates with the subtle world – like a shamanic drum. Through him you can learn to build or expand your communication with the subtle world.
If it is for your livelihood or for the sake of others, you are as dedicated to taking precautions as your power animal Woodpecker, which sometimes knocks huge holes in the tree trunk; these lie horizontally in a line next to each other on the tree bark and serve in addition to foraging and foraging also as a breeding cave and winter quarters.
You are used to being completely on your own. You draw your power of life and life from the connection to the source of all life. Real closeness is only allowed to your partner, who goes through life with you.
Therein you are also very similar to the power animal woodpecker, which prefers to live individually or in a couple connection.
In addition, you feel surrounded by as much protection as the woodpecker, which is optimally protected against insect bites by its thick skin and which does not suffer any damage during chiseling and drumming due to its kind of suspension between the skull and beak.
In the knowledge to be protected always and everywhere, you can also implement your plans unmolested and dedicate yourself fully to your (life) task.
Woodpecker totem symbolizes:
- Initiation
- Intuition
- Listening
- Passion
- Protection
- Energy
- Creativity
- Ideas
- Heartbeat
Woodpecker – Symbolism
The woodpecker proclaims happiness and vitality. Through his drumbeats, the woodpecker communicates with the subtle world – like a shamanic drum. Through him you can learn to build or expand your communication with the subtle world.
His drumming announces weather changes in the outer world, in your inner world, your emotional world, he announces changes in the emotional state.
Here he points out that it is always the love that brings healing on all levels. He uses the drumming of the woodpecker exactly for this: he calls the romantic love (single, weak drum rolls), he calls the erotic love (short series of three to five drum whirls), he calls the unconditional love (long series of five to eight Whirl with 10-20 beats each).
The Woodpecker challenges you to engage in self-interest, greed, and sticking. He shows you that the true wealth comes from within you and is strengthened by the ability to share in your happiness.
The black woodpecker builds each year a new breeding cave and leaves its old the other forest habitats (which could raise without its caves no offspring!).
This provides a wealth of creatures and the forest becomes rich and rich – which in turn benefits the woodpecker. He teaches you to understand that all the best comes to you if you are only willing to let go, to give and to share. By caring for others, you always care for yourself.
But beware, he does not talk about self-abandonment! First, take care of what you need to live! Others can only help who is healthy and well cared for!
Woodpecker – Meaning
Woodpeckers have found a home in all parts of the world, a total of 200 species are recorded. In this country, especially black, green and spotted woodpeckers have settled; these can be seen in forests and gardens, but also on orchards, their favorite place. Certainly, the black-white-red great spotted woodpecker has often attracted your attention.
The Woodpecker has the special ability to connect with your magic power. He is self-proclaimed of magic and his feathers have great power.
Through his woodpecker cave he leads you into the Otherworld. If you travel in the spirit into the cave, you can feel a pull. Depending on whether this keeps you down, up or down in the middle of the cave, you can travel to the lower, upper, or middle world.
Be sure to ask the woodpecker to accompany you and bring you back safely!
The Woodpecker connects you to the energy and the secrets of the forest. He helps you to dive deep into the spirit of the forest and to communicate with the trees, animals, plants and forest creatures.
The black woodpecker combines in itself the accepting power of the female principle (black) and the releasing power of the male principle (red). To achieve this union also in yourself and all your being, he is your teacher.
Giving gifts, praise, appreciation, love, kindness, appreciation, self-love from the heart is important – but true happiness will only be yours when you accept gifts, praise, appreciation, love, kindness, appreciation, self-love from the heart can (and vice versa). BOTH is the same! Only both lead you to true happiness and true wealth. This applies to all areas! Partnership, work, health
Great spotted woodpecker, medium and small woodpecker represent the Great Goddess! They show their colors in their plumage: white, for the virgin goddess, red for the mother goddess, black for the wise old woman and death goddess.
Thus, these species of woodpecker symbolize the wholeness, the cycle of life, the year wheel, the lifetime, becoming-and-passing and thus life par excellence.