Hitting A Bird While Driving – Spiritual Meanings:
It is about reconnection with Nature
“For everything there is a season…” – Ecclesiastes 3:1
The balance in Nature is disturbed when I hit a bird with my car.
Although a physical collision may appear to have been a cause of the accident, from a spiritual point of view, it is not possible..
The bird is warning me that I have alienated myself from being part of Nature.
This is a message telling me that I better start aligning myself with the earth.
It is about complacency
“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you” – Ephesians 5:14
Hitting a bird while driving is a sign to stop my daily routine.
This suddenness has become an example of how bland my life has been and how the call to awareness rings louder than before.
That entire experience is finally like a bolt of lightning to my daily consciousness, making me want to break out of the struggle.
When breaking my pattern, I allow for new stories, ideas, and knowledge that were previously out of reach to find me.
But beyond the physical work it requires, spiritually, it stirs a memory: my human experience is not supposed to be on autopilot.
The universe wants me to touch it with both hands, to be fully alive.
It is about a new course
“… you do not know where it comes from or where it goes” – John 3:8
Air, the realm of birds, refers to thought, mind and communication.
Air is associated with the mind and consciousness in spiritual traditions.
Colliding with a bird is interpreted as an interference with that element.
A crash indicates that my mind is not in agreement or we have been traveling off track from the real spiritual path.
Maybe I’m driving through life, writing out the logical roads instead of questioning if this road really leads to where I need to go.
Such an interaction is one of the ways that birds connecting slows us down, and not just in the physical form.
The things I have been pursuing are no longer helping me.
It is about life’s fragility
“Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow” – Psalm 144:4
The flight of the bird stands for liberty and how my soul is on its way to enlightenment. But, when a flying bird is hit, it stops its elegant flight abruptly.
This symbolizes the impermanence of life spiritually.
This is the sign that the life force itself is fragile and fickle, even in forms we associate with freedom and pure spirit.
At moments like this, I realize how temporary this life can be. So quickly can my life turn.
While uncomfortable, this traumatic experience is actually a call to spiritually anchor more into the now moment.
This is putting me squarely back in the land of gratitude. Life is fragile, and every moment counts.
When I accept this truth, that is when I can truly live my life more mindfully knowing every moment counts.
It is about vulnerability
“God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” – Psalm 73:26
Birds are fragile being, no matter how high they may try to fly.
Their small bodies and flimsy wings are not designed to withstand the vagaries they cannot control.
Hitting a bird when I’m driving can sometimes mirror the frailty of life.
This event may, therefore, be a spiritual mirror to show me which sections of my life I am built on quicksand so I can attend to that in prayer.
That is not to say that being vulnerable is a bad quality.
Recognizing my fragility, however, is, in fact, a sign of spiritual maturity.
The bird was a very unnecessary and tragic loss that I could have avoided an area in my life of trying to hold onto when I needed to release the grip on being strong.
I allow myself to become vulnerable and, therefore, open to healing and growth.
Hitting a bird also makes me think about the balance we all walk in our daily lives.
This teaches me to care for the fragile parts within myself that I try to ignore or deny, thereby encouraging respect for such emotions in others.
It is a disturbance
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me” – Psalm 51:10
Birds fly about nature and the heavens with no earthly ties, pure and free of worldly ones as well.
If I hit a bird while driving, that sacred flight would have been inhibited due to my spiritual space becoming clouded.
The impact is actually a sign of my need for spiritual healing.
With time, both positive and negative energy gets collected from my environment and my experiences.
This will blur my spiritual body, obscuring me from connecting to my higher self.
All the blockages in my life that I have managed to build up could suddenly hit us like a bird.
A sign that I need to release some of the old and allow new light in my heart.
A quick meditation, smudging or other cleansing rituals can assist in realigning my energy.
It is about limitations
“For you were called to freedom, brothers” – Galatians 5:13
Everyone knows the same thing about birds — they are the ultimate symbol of freedom.
This symbolic relationship to freedom from the shackles of the earth is their effortless glide through the air.
Hitting a bird with my car while flying can signify that my freedom I am feeling restricted.
It is such a strong parallel with how, at times, I get in the way of my development and independence.
A bird flying is the freedom of spirit, a movement unrestrained by the weaver of our material.
Some may say that if I hit a bird, it means that I feel restricted in my own life due to an act of consciousness on the part of myself.
Maybe I have boxed myself in with a false belief that has held me back.
It is about compassion
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another” – Ephesians 4:32
It makes me feel guilty, sad, or just helpless when my vehicle hits a bird. In spiritual terms, this is a time for compassion.
The vulnerability of the bird echoes the vulnerability in all life.
This whole experience made me remember to cultivate greater compassion.
Everything, down to something as simple as driving a car, impacts my tiny corner of the world.
Compassion also teaches us how to get through life with elegance.
Hitting a bird when I’m driving down the road is one of those deep spiritual lessons in the interconnection of all life.
It is a spiritual interruption
“For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways” – Psalm 91:11
Some moments call for spiritual intervention.
To run over a bird while driving indicates that I have been heading for disaster, and it was an act of God to stop this from happening.
It represents an angelic force or a spiritual protector preventing me from going too deeply down that path of harm.
What may seem like a traumatic event or turn of events could, in fact, be God intervening in my life for whatever reason, only to save me from something even worse.
It is a spiritual exercise, then, the colliding of one bird into something done as an act of grace.
Other times, guidance from angels or some sort of spiritual protection was removed just before leaving me in the physical and spiritual danger that I was about to enter.
Hitting a bird while driving had perfect timing.
I become momentarily stopped in this instant when the bird hits.
Not every disruption is painful, some happen because the universe is keeping me away from harm.
I’m Bulgarea Candin Stefan and I have started Spiritual Whirlwinds to pass my learnings from my spiritual journey. Spiritualwhirlwinds.com provides a space of spiritual awakening with guided meditations, e-books, mantras, and pendulum readings.