Comments on: Symbolism of the Heron or Egret

By: 9 pond farm

9 pond farm — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:54:28 +0000

really? i’ve always heard that they’re a harbinger of death. we sight them a lot on our farm, and recently one was scared up out of a pond…..we heard a screeching….well, not exactly screeching….it sounded like something was getting killed….and then up overhead out of the pond and woods came this blue heron. which is why i told my friend about the harbinger of death thing …. which is how we landed on your website.

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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:52:48 +0000

[...] to http://www.symbolic-meanings.com, the heron has been honoured by many ancient cultures as a symbol of light, prosperity, strength, [...]

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:24:19 +0000

A great blue heron landed on me while looking for refuge in the dark. I had all the lights on on my boat so that my husband could find his way back in the dinghy. I think it was the only safe landing spot he/she could find and I just happened to be in the way. I still feel the pressure of it on my back and shoulders–it is very large and intimidating. It stayed on the bow of the boat for a long time. I felt very blessed by its presence and thought I would look up its meaning–really lovely site–thank-you

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:19:51 +0000

I recently hit and killed (I think, we never found it) a blue heron with my van. Is this a bad omen?

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:53:20 +0000

Today my son and I disturbed a heron that was sitting in the scrub on the side of our forest, Platbos – located at the foot of Africa. As it rose gracefully into the air we saw a single feather fall and waft slowly into the bushes. I stopped the car and we went to try to find the feather. We found it – a snow-white feather. I have been reading up about the symbolism of both a white feather (a message from Spirit / Angel) and the Heron … what a beautiful and potent combination. A blessing I think for the work that we do here at the forest. Thanks for a wonderful and informative website.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:10:49 +0000

I had a lil baby boy on jan 26th 2010 he passed away 23 days later. My mother passed away on april 16th 2010. The next day we were coming out of the house she flew over our house. I knew then that, that was my mom and she was watching down on us. Ever since then she keeps letting herself be know. I see her on the way to my sons swimming lessons. My church gave me a book about greif, I started reading it but soon put it away. Then my mom passed and I thought I really need to finish that book. So I picked it up and there she was on the front cover of the book. I started crying. My mom shows up when I need her most. I know she is watching over me and she is taking care of my son. Thank you for your web site.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:32:20 +0000

This is really weird. I looked up Blue Herons- their symbolism or meaning because of my experience yesterday and found your site first. I’ve seen the blue herons on the shores of ponds standing there. I never saw one flying before, especially not over a busy main highway in Salem, NH. I was in between running errands and a bit down over still not finding another teaching job in over a year and as I rode, I wondered what that strange bird was a little ahead of me with the legs hanging straight down. It was spooky how it just seemd to wait for me to come towards it and it came right over towards my SUV and looked down in at me. I felt blessed, like this was not the place these beautiful birds fly. They belong near water. But, I knew instantly it had come out there for me to make me feel happy and it did! I truly believe in birds getting in touch with us because it did happen to my husband and I when our first cat had to be put to sleep. We were out on the deck that day or the next, crying our eyes out, when three baltimore orioles came along on a branch leaning over the deck. The male was yelling at the two females to come down lower to us and they did, to tell us our Freddie was okay and was with them in animal heaven not far away. I truly believe that’s why they came. Also, someone mentioned the blue heron as being a totem of the Iroqois. I know the turtle is their totem, or at least one of them. My special saint, who hasn’t made it to sainthood, yet, but is “blessed”, Kateri Tekakwitha, is an Iroquois Indian from Upstate New York and into Canada. She has helped me and blessed me in many ways, and strange that one of you had mentioned- the heron selling your home. She worked her magic with selling our old home. I don’t want to bore people here with the details, but would write to that person who spoke about the home sale and the other one about the Iroquois, if they wanted their e-mail addresses made known. Thanks for this site! I couldn’t help but read all the letters because there are other people out there as fascinated as I am with animals and how they know us and read us. My two Ragdoll kitties do me. I would love to hear from you if you get the chance to write.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:01:01 +0000

I was recently gifted the great blue heron as my second animal totem. I have always been blessed with sighting heron, but never really put much thought into it. I always found them majestic and beautiful, and a good sign. My meditation coach tasked me to find out more about the heron and my research brought me here. I am smirking as I write this since I am Iroquois (Oneida to be specific) and this blog mentions how special the heron is to the Iroquois people. It is amazing how things pop up in your life and you feel as though you should have always known this. I am really happy to have the heron as my second animal totem, and elated to have found your site. I know it will be of great value in my spiritual journey.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:11:28 +0000

Hi. Today I bought a pair of pink herons from the Op Shop. They are both standing with their heads facing backwards as though they are looking behind them…Do you know what this means? One has round eyes, the other has slanted eyes. Thankyou. They look lovely .

By: mdiamond

mdiamond — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:29:12 +0000

i recently read a book that had a blue heron in it and the characters believed it was their guardian and would always protect them because it stayed for years at the pond in their backyard. Just recently this past summer there have been these beautiful white dove that continue to appear in my driveway and my mother and i started saying it was my grandfather showing his presence and i literally call one of them papa. Well, a few days ago I was pulling in my driveway from work and my parking spot looks into my back yard and the was a blue heron standing right on my back deck and when i went inside to talk to my boyfriend n tell him what was there he was like yea it’s been standing there forever….it’s so weird because his father passed away last year and it’s almost like the heron is around everytime he is…and that one day it just stared at him for so long and appeared again this morning when we woke up. When it flies away it often has flown down to our side door which is to our basement which is where my boyfriend and i live right now in my parents house and it will just look from the woods at the door. It makes me feel so honored to see something like that and he just brushes it off n makes fun of me but i totally believe this is some sort of sign. I loved finding this sight with all the others who feel the same!