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  "path": "/2026/02/10/great-blue-heron/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-10T21:25:53.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.themarginalian.org",
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  "textContent": "One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the sky on her back. In the years since, the heron has become the closest thing I have to what native traditions call a spirit animal. It has appeared at auspicious moments in my life, when I have most yearned for assurance. It became the first bird I worked with in my almanac of divinations. At times of harrowing uncertainty and longing for resolution, I have found in… read article",
  "title": "The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning"
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