Animal Signs: Sting Rays

On my day off, I went to my dentist in Groton. I drive an hour because I like the entire staff. Afterwards, I walked around the Mystic Aquarium nearby. While there, my intuition told me to stop by the metaphysical bookstore Mystical Horizons in Mystic on the way home.

It is $26 per person to get in to the Mystic Aquarium on a day visit, but $60 per person to visit all year round with a membership. I go all winter long sometimes just for an hour. I feel my energy rise just walking through the animal enclosures.

I can hear Paul Simon singing “It’s all happening at the zoo…” as I walk up to the penguin area. Sometimes I just sit on the stairs by the whale pond and wait for a beluga to rub against the glass for babystollers.

In the 1990’s, the whales were located inside the aquarium in the circular tank. One beluga followed me from right to left, then left to right while keeping an eye me as I thought I was walking around him. I am not special, the beluga whale liked to follow people. I thought I was imagining it until a volunteer confirmed it. I have not had this feeling at any other aquarium. The Mystic Aquarium is a special place.

On this visit, the penguins swam around; sometimes they just stand by their inner door. Two rescue seals dashed around their round pool, leaping onto a landing to look ready for what they thought was arriving food. It was all happening at the pools.

As I walked by the stingray touch pool, I noticed a little girl almost hugging a ray. Normally they swim in circular laps around the pool’s edge. A stingray was bobbing up (its head was two to three inches out of water each time) and down right on front of her as if to get closer to her. I was stunned. If ever there was a sign of a creature wanting to be noticed as a sign, this was it. I exclaimed! Unfortunately, the child’s grandmother snapped that they had been doing that to all her grandkids all day. She did not hear how special this little girl must be.

My intuition told me to go to Mystical Horizons. I stopped on my way home. I wondered what I was supposed to get. On a shelf, the title stands out to me, Animal Wise: The Spirit Language and Signs of Nature. It is a book on reading signs and omens in nature. I feel an electrical surge. I have been wondering if the birds mean anything and this book may have some answers, plus information that I do not know that I need. I also found tobacco to put in my garden as a thank you. Thank you!

Andrews, Ted. (1999). Animal Wise: The Spirit Language and Signs of Nature. (Dragon Hawk Publishing, TN).