Mallard Duck Medicine is known as a "wild duck" and referred to as a dabbling duck. This is a group of ducks that feed mainly on vegetable matter on the water surface. They graze and rarely dive. They are strong fliers and are migratory birds.

The breeding male mallard is unmistakable with a green head, black rear end and a blue speculum edged with white. The males also have a yellow bill with a black tip while the females are dark brown. After all, these males have to be pretty enough to capture the females attention for breeding. Generally in the animal kingdom, the male birds are more colorful than the female for this reason.

Mallard Duck Medicine is very interesting when it comes to breeding. Mallards are very sexual birds and have a high tendency for male to male sexual activity. When you see pictures of two mallards, this is actually two male ducks forming a union. They will only form a pair with a female until she lays eggs and then the male duck will leave her.

I write a Daily Message on this website everyday. Read below the Daily Message I wrote back in September 2007 called, "Quack-Approved With Cawfirmation."

[Posted 5:20 p.m., EDT - Thursday afternoon, 9/27/2007]
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GREETINGS FROM CHEROKEE, NORTH CAROLINA! Yesterday afternoon I was at the coffee shop "Tribal Grounds" writing your daily horoscope when I went out on the deck that looks over the Oconaluftee River. Oconaluftee (Eg-wa-nu-l'ti) means "beside the river" because it runs through the Great Smokey Mountains and right through the middle of Cherokee.

As I was standing on the deck overlooking the river with a nearly 90 degree steep mountain on the other side of the river staring me in the face, more ducks than I could count started appearing one after the other. As I started counting the Duck Medicine I intuited that I was suppose to call a girlfriend of mine who is in the process of taking herself through the exact same transformation that I took myself through when I decided to close my clinic and pursue the Life that I live right now. She too is in healthcare and has decided to take her knowledge and experience to another level and also decided to close her clinic. I'm so excited for her because I'm living proof that it can be accomplished. You go girl!!!

As we were chatting on the phone regarding her transformation experience thus far, we started giggling about the ducks quacking in the background. We couldn't stop giggling because they were interrupting our conversation and it was clear they wanted us to know something. Since we both heard the Duck Medicine, the message was for both of us, which is - Protection, Nurture and Introspection. Duck Medicine showed up in full support and quack approved (75 of them when I stopped counting) to let us know that while protection and nurturing was all around us, we also needed to be introspective as well. Those who experience Native American Animal Medicine are named for the animal that comes before them, in this case we would be called, "Duck People". She is Duck People and I am Duck People. Sounds plural but it is singular, "Duck People". We deduced that Duck Medicine was impacting both of us in different areas of our Life but the message was the same.

Then suddenly Crow Medicine revealed himself through his loud and bold cawing as we started giggling again. Crow People are shape-shifters meaning they can change their shape and be in two places at once. Crow Medicine is one of my totems, meaning it is the Animal Medicine that I feel particularly close to and that I respect. Crow Medicine comes to me quite often as it continually encourages me that I am quite capable of being in two places at once. I am talking to you right now through the website, while off playing somewhere else. I can talk to you through a radio show and talk to you through my book. I can talk to you on the phone and still be talking to other people through this website. I can be in the Treat Yourself Special e-Course program with an e-Course student and still be talking to others through their Natal Chart. Folks, I am a shape-shifter and it is what I was born to do. Since my girlfriend also heard Crow Medicine at the other end of the telephone and knowing what she is preparing to do with her Life, the Crow Medicine was meant for her as well. So I shared with her the meaning of Crow Medicine with a triple capital "C" for Crow, Caw and Confirmation! In my world I prefer to call this, "Cawfirmation!" when I hear Crow Medicine.

Crow Medicine continually reminds me that I am in the right place at the right time and that I can do even more. Just a few minutes ago I went out on the deck again because I heard Crow Medicine cawing me once again. Crow Medicine landed on a rock not six feet from me on the river bank, then came two more, then came three more and they started multiplying like the Duck Medicine multiplied yesterday. I thought I was in a scene from "The Birds" for a minute there, only this Crow Medicine was tamed, friendly, full of wisdom and experience. I just smiled and said outloud, "I hear you cawing me. I'm here. Tell me what to do next. I'm listening."

Folks, I realize that I have more Animal Medicine to upload on this website which I have already written, and I will start uploading these animals tomorrow. As Crow Medicine was looking right at me I intuitively heard Crow say, "Loretta, it's time to bend the law again and shape shift. Your mission depends on it."

Oh, about that 90 degree steep mountain that was staring me in the face? (Pictured below on the Oconaluftee River) I've moved mountains before and I know for a fact that I can do it again. (winky wink)

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Denadagohvyu ['Until we meet again' in Cherokee]

A bazillion blessings~ Dr. Loretta Standley

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