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Sometime in the last couple months of 2021, I had an ocular migraine. That wasn’t particularly unusual. I am prone to these glimmery, shimmery, kind-of-nauseating ocular experiences. The unusual thing about this particular ocular migraine was that I didn’t see the usual shiny-around-the-edges amoeba. I saw a Thunderbird.
I know that the Thunderbird is a mythological creature, and I am not claiming that I saw a real, flesh-and-blood Thunderbird flying over my house. I saw a shiny-around-the-edges shape, and it looked like Thunderbird to me. I grew up in the Great Plains area, and that image is a little pebble that my brain picked up along the way.
My brain recognizing the image as Thunderbird is only part of the story. Here’s the rest:
After the migraine went away, I did a little Googling about Thunderbird. I learned that visions of Thunderbird are associated with those people who are called to the occupation of Sacred Clown. I followed my investigation of Thunderbird with a search for clown classes starting early in 2022 and ended up registering for a class through the Los Angeles Clown School called Make Like a Trickster. I will also be taking a course called Sacred Clown and another called Clown and Ritual this year. Why? Well, because
I follow signs.
