My favorite past time at the OMEGA Institute is kayaking on the lake. It is so peaceful and meditative.
Often I would look up and a heron seemed to have materialized.

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Heron as your guide will bring you to  explore life in the physical instead of just daydreaming.
Because they are unconventional people, Heron people often must learn to make their living being ‘jacks of all trades’-picking up income from a variety of jobs, projects, part-time assignments. Most people, as Ted Andrews says in his book Animal Speak, would never choose to live this way: “It is not a structured way, and does not have a stability or security to it. It is though, just a matter of perspective. There is security in heron medicine, for it gives the ability to do a variety of tasks. If one way doesn’t work, then another will.”[1]
Solitary in nature, Heron people follow their own path. They learn self-reliance. This is a valuable character trait in these times of conformity and homogenization of values. Heron people can stand alone, listen to their own inner wisdom, and go their own way when everyone else is conforming to society’s commands. They are individuals first.
[1] Ted Andrews, Animal Speak (Llewellyn Publications: 1998), page 156.