Key Insights from This Reflection

Innocence reveals what is truly happening in the world. The ostriches became symbolic mirrors of our collective awakening and of the places where humanity still refuses to see.
Awakening requires courage to look, not collapse. Spiritual sight grows when we stay present with what’s uncomfortable instead of turning away.
The ostrich is a power animal of grounded spiritual vision. Its medicine teaches clear seeing, instinct, and embodied intuition.
Shadows surface when sight collapses. What happened to the ostriches shows what unfolds when human decisions are made from numbness and disconnection.
Healing our reactions opens spiritual sight. Inner work dissolves pain at the root so our essence can land, and we can stay centered, awake, and connected to Source.

Awakening Through Sacred Innocence: The Ostrich Story

With care for humanity, for nature, and for all of us navigating this time of spiritual awakening, I write this reflection. The ostrich story from Canada struck a deep chord in many of us. Its innocence, its tragedy, and the shadow it unveiled in our collective reality. These moments where innocence and shadow collide can feel overwhelming or disorienting. Yet awakening becomes far less frightening when we meet it with clarity, tenderness, and inner authority.

Recently, I shared about the Canadian ostriches—gentle beings who became, for me, an archetypal symbol for the moment we’re living in. Their story stirred something deep, yet some of you reached out asking for more context or shared that you couldn’t find the details. It made me realize how easily we assume others can see what we see, even though each of us moves through our own spiritual echo chamber.

Awakening works the same way. Once a layer of truth becomes visible, it cannot be unseen. And every time a deeper dimension opens within me, it feels like the air after a storm: clear, alive, and full of new inner sight.

Over the last month, something in me shifted again. And strangely, I credit the ostriches.

The Difficult Truths and Unexpected Gifts of Seeing the Shadow

Awakening often begins with longing: for Spirit, Sophia, God, intuition, the third eye, or simply the desire to want something more connected.

But real spiritual sight can be uncomfortable.

It can be painful to sense misalignment in someone we love. It can be disorienting to feel truth in a moment where others hear only words. It can be overwhelming to see more than we were taught to perceive.

Many of us learned early on to turn away from our intuitive knowing. To avoid discomfort. To dim what we sensed.

I remember telling my parents as a teenager that there was a ghost in my room. They dismissed it as imagination. And like many sensitives, I learned to suppress my deeper sight.

And sometimes it feels easier to be like the symbolic ostrich with our head in the sand, avoiding what feels too painful or too much.

The Archetype of the Ostrich: Innocence

In myth and collective symbolism, the ostrich embodies the archetype of “not seeing”. Turning away from what feels overwhelming or too painful to witness. Even though real ostriches do not bury their heads, the metaphor has lived in the human psyche for centuries.

And in this moment, that symbolism became heartbreakingly literal.

These gentle beings, mirrors of our human tendency to avoid what feels too difficult to see became the ones harmed when the world turned away.

Their innocence revealed something essential:

When sight collapses, innocence suffers.
When we turn away, harm grows unseen.

Ostrich as Power Animal: Groundedness, Sight, and Earth Wisdom

In spiritual traditions, the ostrich carries deep meaning.

They are winged ones who do not fly. A living bridge between heaven and earth,
symbols of grounded spiritual sight.

Their enormous eyes represent:

expanded intuition
perceptive clarity
awareness beyond the obvious
the ability to see what others avoid

They are also devoted nurturers and protectors, guardians of innocence.

Their medicine is needed now:
grounded intuition, deep seeing, discernment, presence, and the courage to stay awake.

The Ostrich as Mirror of the Human Shadow

Another layer of their symbolism is harder to face.

These beings who represent “not seeing” were forced to witness something no creature should endure: the prolonged suffering of their companions. In many traditions, animals absorb or reflect the human shadow. They become mirrors, not by choice, but by the nature of consciousness.

What happened on that farm reflected something uncomfortable:

the human shadow acting through human hands
innocence standing helplessly in its path

And sometimes the shadow does not appear only in individuals. It appears in systems.

Systems can lose sight.
Systems can act without wisdom.
Systems can be influenced by deeper forces that remain unseen.

Awakening asks us to notice when a system is operating without sight and when something distorted or disconnected is shaping decisions that harm the innocent.

It wasn’t simply that the ostriches were killed. It was that the shadow of not-seeing, by believing what we are told. The very archetype they represent moved through people who could not bear to look more deeply.

The symbolism is almost mythic:

The animals who symbolize turning away were forced to witness the consequences of turning away, while the world also turned away from them.

Their innocence invites us into deeper awakening:

It is not only nature that suffers when we refuse to see. Our humanity suffers as well.

They ask us quietly:

“Can you see now?”

A Call to Awakening

This moment is not separate from humanity’s spiritual evolution. We are living in a time where innocence is vulnerable, systems are straining, and many feel too overwhelmed to look.

Awakening is not only about dramatic spiritual experiences. It is the quiet courage to see clearly. To remain present when part of us wants to collapse.
To let the heart stay open without drowning.

This courage is what opens spiritual sight.

What Do We Do When We Witness Atrocity?

Many people asked me this week:

“What can we do?”

The true beginning is always inner work, because reactive action doesn’t create change.

Embodied presence does.

1. Do Your Inner Work First

The moments when we’re triggered by coworkers, strangers, or loved ones are spiritual training grounds.

When we transform the small daily wounds:

perception becomes clearer
intuition sharpens
we stop labeling people as “toxic”
we learn how to love without collapsing

Love is not always sweet. Sometimes it is spacious, discerning, and fiercely clear.

2. Question What You’re Told

When something lands in your field:

Pause.
Ask.
Listen.

Clarity arrives when reactivity dissolves.

3. Let Guidance Lead You

If action is truly yours to take, you will feel it. But guidance can only land in a clear nervous system.

Breathe.
Connect.
Move.
Pray.
Listen.

Follow the clarity, not the pain.

Where My Work Meets This Moment

This is the space I’ve learned to hold, and continue learning to hold.

Many people share that they feel overwhelmed by the world. Reactive to what they see, exhausted by emotional weight. They want to stay awake, but the pain feels too loud. So they turn away. They long for clarity, but collapse into fear or numbness.

This is where my work comes in:

dissolving the pain at its root so more of your true essence can land
transforming emotional charge so your healed nature returns
opening your channel so more of your Higher Self can enter the body
restoring spiritual sight by dissolving what obscures it

When inner turbulence clears, the world no longer pulls you under. You begin to respond from presence rather than pain.

If this moment has stirred something in you. Perhaps a desire to step out of overwhelm, to stay centered in intensity, or to remain in innocence while witnessing the world. Support is here.

My one-on-one sessions are a space to unravel overwhelm, soften reactivity, and reconnect you with deeper, clearer inner seeing.

What Happened: A Clear Account

What unfolded on that Canadian farm was heartbreaking:
a government-directed action that led to the loss of an entire flock of ostriches. Hours of fear, suffering, and grief for the animals and the people who cared for them.

The owners tried to protect them, but police would not allow them onto their own property. The hands of love were held back while harm moved forward.

Innocent beings who did not understand what was happening. Innocent humans who loved them, standing helplessly at the boundary of their own land, prevented from intervening.

And beneath it all, deeper questions rise:

How do we see?
When do we turn away?
When do we surrender our authority to systems instead of our inner knowing?
And what awakens in us when innocence is harmed?

With tenderness,
Elle

Shareable Images: Spread the Light

A Movement of Love

These images were created as catalysts for awakening. To illuminate what the ostriches revealed and to strengthen the movement of innocence, clarity, and love they inspired.

You are welcome to download and share them. May their message move through us, awakening deeper sight, guiding heart-led action, and strengthening our collective commitment to ensure this never happens again.

Spread the Light

Written by Elle Kerr-Wilson, founder of Amplify Your Light in Edmonds, Washington. Guiding seekers remotely on-line, in Seattle, Lynnwood, and Everett through meditation and Sacred Vision Healing.

If you feel called to experience this work, you are welcome to explore the Healing and Meditation Mentorship pages.

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