 Are you really attracted to hummingbirds or have they been showing up a lot in your life lately or maybe you're a little scared of them? If so then hummingbird may easily be either a totem animal for you or some kind of power animal spirit animal showing up for you. And you may be wondering what the meaning is, what it wants to tell you. So we're going to go with this video into kind of a deep dive into hummingbird and its spiritual meaning and hopefully it will help to shed some light for you on this beautiful animal and what it might be trying to tell you. Okay let's start with a little bit about the bird hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world and there are many species of hummingbirds. Most species are a little over three inches long and well under an ounce in weight so very tiny. And pretty much everything about this bird is high vibration. They have a super fast wing beat when it's like from 12 to 80 times per second and that depends on size and species typically the smaller ones have the more frequent wing beats. And that's the humming sound that you hear is actually the sound that is created because of these really fast beating wings. They also have a really super fast heart rate at rest. Their heart rate is about 250 beats per minute in flight it reaches 1200 beats per minute and that translates to four to 20 beats per second which is pretty incredible. So if you were to hold a hummingbird in your hand then you know you would feel like this vibration I'm sure. Their body temperature is also super high. Normal like underneath the feathers it will be at about 41 degrees centigrade which is 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit and the hummingbirds even see in high frequency. They see in the ultraviolet range of the light spectrum which is a really super high range of the spectrum beyond the human visible range. And energetically this kind of invokes like the ultraviolet like the violet ray ultraviolet kind of light ray and so again this is really super high vibration that we're dealing with. So they really literally are energy workers and it does take a tremendous amount of energy to fuel a hummingbird given their size. So because of this they need a constant source of food and their food is largely flower nectar and again this is a real high vibration if you're familiar with flower essences. You know any of that floral flower kind of healing there's this connection with that almost an angelic connection as well as you know like aromatherapy that kind of therapy you know healing methods could be associated with with hummingbird if you're looking for some kind of remedy look into maybe the flower essences and sound healing as well but we'll go into that in a bit. Okay so they they live in flower nectar but they also eat a fair amount of small insects fruit flies little insects that hang out in flowers in and round flowers that I believe some species may may actually you know hunt on the wing as well. So the insects are actually a very important food source for hummingbirds and they do need that for the protein. They do have a preference for red flowers and we're going to kind of look at the color red in a bit because I think that is is quite significant to this totem but before we do I want to just mention their role as pollinators in the natural world this is just really important this will be correlated to seeding ideas like transferring ideas from from one person another that is something that is kind of an important aspect you know in terms of pollinating and letting things grow and and and take form the manifesting aspect as well is an important part of this totem and some species have actually co-evolved with their preferred flower species meaning that they have developed like the flower has developed a specialized structure and the bird has developed a specialized bill to feed on those particular flowers and what that does is that the flower attracts these birds and they help to pollinate it just inadvertently in the process of feeding from these flowers. So it's this kind of partnership between the bird and the flower and so like because they eat nectar they're so small they require like they have such high energy requirements they have to be feeding uh like actively feeding like throughout the day very very constantly and a lot of species have developed sexual dimorphism which means that the males and females will be usually the size wise will be different sometimes the bill shape will be different so differences between males and females um and what that is and this is not all species but some of them um some of them the females are larger than the males and this is thought to reduce competition within the particular species because there's like only so many flowers and if maybe the males are preferring one certain kinds of flowers and the females other it others it sort of extends the number of hummingbirds that a particular area can support so and there's mating behavior too that leads to some of these differences the males will do these really amazing aerial acrobatics and a lot of species during courtship and sometimes it's advantageous to them to be smaller than the females because it makes them more add more agile and finally in terms of motion most hummingbirds are migratory and this so that they can access the food sources the the rufus hummingbird and the ruby throated hummingbird in north america are two examples that they go down to um central south america to winter and then come up here in the summer so like where i'm at in michigan we do have hummingbirds it'll be the ruby throats ruby throated hummingbird but only obviously in in the very warm months and i look pretty far north and they do get up here so but they can't keep up the high rate of activity indefinitely um and nighttime is a challenge for them because it's several hours that they really can't see the flowers and can't feed so they've developed this coping mechanism they go into a hibernation like state in the night and it's called torpor and it helps to protect them from cold they're they're um they're using about one fifteenth the energy but they can't really move it's sort of they they hang upside down like a bat and i think it's probably to protect the brain to bring the keep keep the blood around the brain and it just lets them make it through the night just the slowing down so if you have a hummingbird totem you might find that uh you might have a lot of energy but you might have periods where you need to just really slow down almost to a stop sleep might be really important to you and you know just making sure that you get the rest that you need hummingbird people maybe like the kind of people who are on the go a lot so that that rest is super important and you may have to kind of schedule it in your calendar in order to make sure that you get the rest in the down time that you need you need that it's not like optional it's needed um okay so looking at the the colors of hummingbirds they have iridescent feathers and these can come in a variety of rainbow hues depending on the species and some people call them flying jewels because they have these beautiful jewel tones many of them these feathers are like i said iridescent they can appear to change color they reflect the light it's really the light play so again this is like this high energetic uh high vibrational kind of light light worker kind of a totem so if the hummingbird is coming forward you might want to look and see what are the main colors of the particular hummingbird that's coming forward for you and there may be some healing insights there it might be able to point the way to specific chakras because the different chakras have different colors associated with them and i want to point out that like the the 3d chakras are the familiar rainbow red orange yellow you know green blue indigo you know whatever blue green blue violet but then the the fourity of the higher ascended chakras have a little bit different colors so you might want to look that up or look up both um and then there's also the sacred ray colors right to the emerald ray and and blu ray and so forth so any of these may have connotations and healing work if a hummingbird is coming forward as a totem for you look into those colors and notice observe which if there's a particular hummingbird species that that is showing up for you and and what those colors are okay so because they feed on flowers and because they are small they can do this they they have developed an amazing agility in flight they can fly in all directions and hover sort of like a helicopter and they they are like there's an aspect of hummingbird that isn't all love and light they are really like the attack pilots of the natural world of the bird world and um they they do can be very very territorial and aggressive especially towards other hummingbirds and i mean literally angry birds so if you're a hummingbird person rage and anger might be an issue for you okay um they they will chase away like all sorts of intruders usually with hummingbirds it doesn't end up an actual fight but when it does it you know they can't get injured and sometimes they'll you know even kill each other it usually doesn't come to that usually just battle scars lost feathers that kind of thing but um but if this is coming forward as a as a power animal it is definitely something to be aware of um in nature in the hum and the hummingbird world if you are wanting to attract hummers to your yard you want to avoid fights that you want to make sure that you do everything you can to reduce the stress and one of the things that can help is by providing more sources of food so maybe multiple feeder feeders or different patches of flowers to um kind of reduce the scarcity because it's it's actually this scarcity or fear of lack that is you know makes them aggressive towards each other right they're trying to protect their territory they're trying to protect their food source and energetically so if you're dealing with this aspect of hummingbird if you're dealing with the rage um you know an aggression then we're looking at wanting to introduce stress reduction techniques breathing techniques anything you can do to keep stress to a minimum and also working with the root chakra there's that red color right because that's the kind of 3d color of the root chakra um so going to the root chakra and doing healing work around that can help hummingbird people or people like if a hummingbird is coming forward it may not be your your actual spirit animal totem but it may be a spirit animal that's coming forward for a particular phase of life or something um if like this would be more than negative aspects um that it might be helping with in pointing out that you know let's look at the root chakra and look at you know what healing might need to be done there um because of this attack pilot kind of um capabilities that they have um again they can fly in all directions they can hover but and they have this figure eight pattern they're wings that allows them to do that so figure eight uh the the number eight new uh numerologically speaking has a lot to do with abundance it's like the infinity symbol so this abundance is also an aspect of hummingbirds and it's kind of related to the whole flowers and blooming right so there's there's a positive aspect to this totem and also they have a super highly attuned sense of vision they actually have specialized visual processing centers in their brain which is what helps them to visualize even when they're like doing really complex aerial maneuvers so just like an attack pilot they have resources they've got specialized equipment to keep them highly aware and that is super important because this attack aspect of hummingbird it can show up in negative ways but just like any aspect of any power animal those shadow sides they can be turned to good use as well right to to um to light purposes so we're talking here about awareness and and and like very high awareness and the ability to it's a very protective ability ability to see recognize and protect against anything that might be threatening darker energies anything like that that might be that might be intruding past your boundaries okay so boundaries very very important knowing what's yours what's not so this is um so don't see this aggression if it's aggression it might be pointing out that maybe you need to just kind of take stock of what your boundaries are or start paying attention it's like what's mine what's not what's my energy what's not okay so if you're experiencing kind of rage aggression maybe it could be maybe taking on energy or um allowing boundaries to be crossed when maybe it'd be better to figure out ways to assertively but not aggressively defend your boundaries and that begins with recognizing where your boundaries are you know that visibility okay I mentioned the humming sound before and uh some species have brilliant throat coloration as well um so we're looking at throat chakra here for for hummingbirds as as something to another area to look at if you're doing healing work root chakra and throat chakra would both be um you know ones to look at uh in addition to humming they also sing or they make chirping sounds depends on the species the males of some species will actually gather together in numbers in groups sometimes large numbers to sing and dance for the females this is a mass courtship display called a lek and it's like the singles bar or the bird world so females do seem to prefer males who are good singers and scientists think that hummers can hear far more accurately than we do that they can discern sound patterns at rates that we can't even follow so they've experimented with slowing down hummingbird chirps and they found that there are often hidden songs that go by too fast for us to detect you know that we can hear just a little chirp but they think that the hummers can actually hear a song that song hidden within that okay so all of this is pointing to energetically speaking we're looking at the throat chakra we're looking at self-expression and we're also looking at sound healing and music as a healing mechanism as well as if you're looking at those kind of hidden things the realization that healing can happen at levels undetectable by the senses healers have always known this if you're looking at say reiki energy that you can't see you can't hear but it's there and we feel the effect um you know again a hummingbird is a real kind of healer it comes forward in a lot a lot of ways with hummingbird um okay one of the shadow sides of hummingbird aside from the aggression is inebriation or kind of drunkenness um if you've ever with the hummer feeders like with the sugar water if that ferments then a hummer can actually get drunk right and and this is the case for some people who are very very sensitive and have this kind of healing ability um sometimes addictions can kind of kind of go along with that because they're so sensitive that it's until you until certain sometimes it it's easy when we're dealing with all these energetic shifts and especially before the awakening happens and we're not even we don't even know why we're feeling what we're feeling and it's easier to kind of just drink it away right um or it could show up not necessarily in alcoholism but other kind of um ways that we kind of get ungrounded okay so it doesn't even need to be a substance addiction it could be just ungroundedness and spaciness um there is a kind of an old wives tale that that hummingbirds don't have feet i i met somebody once who who really insisted to me that hummingbirds had no feet and and i can see where the belief comes from because they they can stand still in the air they can hover but hummingbirds they really do have feet um but that ungroundedness is an aspect of hummingbird to watch out for if you have hummingbird as a totem or if it's coming forward for you a lot right now um watch the groundedness okay because you there again is going to the root chakra right so grounding very very important for hummingbird people and lastly i want to talk a little bit about the connection between hummingbird and spider here so there is actually a predator-prey relationship between hummingbird and spider and it goes both ways okay so anytime there's a predator-prey relationship there's interesting things that you want to look at with animals but when it goes both ways like this it's super interesting this is a really very strong connection with between these two power animals okay um so they did a study some some researchers did a study in 1986 that they examined stomach stomach contents of more than 1600 hummingbirds these are tropical hummingbirds and i'm assuming hopefully that they were ones that died you know accidentally or of natural causes um that they were 140 different species and almost 80 percent held remains of spiders or arthropods okay so the spider is a major major um food source for hummingbirds but hummingbirds are small enough and and hummingbirds actually collect sometimes that looks will collect the spider web the spider silk to line the nests because their nests are so small um but sometimes they are small enough to get caught in a larger spider web and sometimes fall prey to the spiders themselves so there's this really interesting dynamic there um we're talking here like spider spider has this kind of vampiric archetype so we're really talking here between light and dark right this this the quintessential battle between light and dark we're talking um kind of the vampire archetype which is the antichrist right and hummingbird coming as a light worker right which which um you know counteracts this vampiric energy energy but it's very interesting that it it consumes it right and i kind of got this image the other day of of spider that um when we're when we're dealing with energy when we're healing from negative energy um it's sort of like the reverse of the vampire archetype it reverses it so spider um in its in its dark in its shadow aspect embodies that vampire it kind of just takes life and sucks it away right and it it entangles and binds but what light workers essentially do is kind of the same in reverse what we do is we kind of bind the negative energy so that it can't you know do its thing you can't create harm and then in a way we feed off of it because we take our lessons from the dark right and it helps us to spin more light to bring more light into the world so it's sort of like this reversal so you can say that it's like the negative antithesis of the negative archetype right so hummingbird is one that helps to helps us to reverse the the any kind of vampire tendencies that are coming into our lives and reverse it so that instead of the dark praying on the light it's the light using the dark and transmuting it okay so just a very much very much a light worker kind of totem one that embodies joy and abundance and light in all sorts of ways but again it like anything else it's got a shadow side and there's going to be things that come forward you know for hummingbird people if it's your totem or if it's coming forward for you watch for the aggression watch for the groundedness and those those things will help to get back into you know the the the more light aspects of this powerful totem okay so I hope that that has this has shed a little bit of light on the meaning of hummingbird and I encourage you if you've been seeing hummingbirds or they've been coming into your life to spend a little time with this totem you might want a journal with it you might want to meditate on it you might want to maybe dialogue with it you can ask these power animals you know what it is why are you here what do you want to tell me and see what comes forward for you so good luck if you have enjoyed this video please do like and I encourage you to subscribe and hit the bell to be 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