Macaw / Parrot
Meaning & Symbolism
Macaw symbolizes rising, flair, and visibility.
Macaws are bright, bold, and loud! Itâs time to unapologetically show off your unique qualities. No more hiding.
You have a skilled communicator and performer within you. Your unique flair and skills plant the seeds of inspiration in others.
We need to see you being your full self to help sprout something new within us.
Keep rising higher and higher. You are never âtoo much.â
Macaw can teach you how to use your uniquely intense colors (skills) to create a new vision for yourself and others.
Macaws are an endangered species, further emphasizing their rareness. Not only are you unique, but there are even fewer people within your niche who can provide what you have to offer. So speak up and show up. Your specialties are needed. The bright primary colors of Macaws are screaming at you to be unapologetically bold and beautiful just as you are. You represent color in its purest, most saturated form. Pull from your color palette to create a new world for yourself and others. Thereâs no need to look outside yourself for inspiration. You have everything you need.
Macaws wake up with the sun and fly off early in the morning to search for food. This could indicate that you have the potential to be productive in the morning. Try doing important tasks first thing in the day and see how it goes for you.
Like many birds, Macaws promote the growth of forests as they keep dropping seeds they eat. You are a planter of seeds, spreading inspiration everywhere you go.
Macaws are extremely intelligent. They can learn how to unlatch cages and mimic words and sounds. You are a clever and skilled communicator/performer.
Macaws use loud calls like screaming and squawking to communicate amongst themselves and draw attention. You are not âtoo loudâ or âtoo much.â If anything, this is one of your gifts. Macaw is asking you to speak up more often because we could benefit from your unique viewpoint. Help draw our attention to helpful places.
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I want to hear about your Macaw experiences. What stories or dreams have you had? Please share and join in the conversation below!
Thank you Tanya. I had a vision of a Macaw flying out of my solar plexus this morning. I know I had to look it up. This was the perfect message for me. I am beginning to understand why I feel like I am the only one (even in the spiritual field) that has the message that is coming through me. Maybe Iâm a little more of a rare/endangered breed than I allow myself to own. Instead of feeling lonely or odd, itâs tome for me to express with confidence, the rare Beauty coming through me. Thank you. ?
Yes! Express with confidence the rare beauty that comes through you please! We need you shining at your fullest.
As I was meditating this morning, I saw a macaw with sooty feathers, could still kind of see the colors and was flying toward the east. What’s that mean?
Air is the element of the East. If the macaw as covered in soot it could be asking you to dust off your feathers by flying (air/East). Macaw wants all of us to shine brightly and to fly boldly. To be proud of who you are and let others see you.
I recently had a dream about a huge blue Macaw flying down to land on my right outstretched arm, while I was standing on the front lawn of my childhood home. At first I was not scared at all, but then saw the scared face of someone watching and wondered if I should be scared. I woke up just as the beautiful Macaw was landing on my arm. The next day, no longer dreaming, I saw a woman waking down the streets of SF near my house with a huge blue Macaw on her right arm. I couldn’t believe it. And then today a guy with a big red parrot parked his car (parrot inside) over my drive way. I stopped to ask him about his bird, in disbelief. He told me they are like perpetual 2 year olds, but great lifelong companions if you can handle that. His bird was nervous and had plucked all the feathers from parts of her body since leaving her flock… I feel
Like my dream is just moving into my waking life in the most bizarre way. What do you read in all this? Thanks!!
Wow, yes, it sounds like your dream was speaking to you in your waking life. I’m glad you’re paying attention and stopped to ask that man about his parrot (which can bring up the potential for you to make connections for yourself). As for what it means, it’s hard to know. You know yourself best and have more layers of information than this story provides. I find it fascinating that the bird was referred to as a 2-year-old and sad that it was losing its feathers due to the stress of losing its family. It’s not important to know exactly what it means (for no one can know the full truth of anything) but it’s great to gather information, watch what feelings and reflections come up for you, and stay curious. I hope Macaw continues to visit you. Thank you for sharing.
I had the most vivid dream last night. I dreamt I was in my bedroom and as I looked out of my bedroom window, a huge flock of hyacinth macaws were starting to gather around the the window outside. They were sitting on my window sill, on our fence, they were clinging to the wall of the bungalow next door, sitting on our washing line… They were really beautiful. I stood in complete awe of them, they were so blue. I called my mum through in the dream and was saying “mum!!! Come and see this!!…. This is amazing!! She came an looked but was a little frightened.. I wasn’t.. It was a breath taking sight. The macaws felt as though they were trying to be close to me in the dream.. Not scary in anyway… I was wondering if you could tell me what this means. I am a spiritual person and have never experienced anything like this before. Many thanks Helen đ
What a beautifully mesmerizing dream. It sounds like the Hyacinth Macaw is wanting to form a relationship with you. Asking you to notice your own inner beauty and shine brighter for all of us to enjoy.
I met a beautiful soft pink macaw today while walking down the street. His color actually reminded me of the color of my auric field but I was really nervous being around him. My friend urged me to hold him and I did so fearfully! I was looking into his eyes and they really take you in when they look at you. When his mom went to take him back because it was time he ran up onto my shoulder and didnât want to go! I have been having a tough time lately and this medicine (and your interpretation) was just what I needed to feel validated. Thank you!
You’re so welcome! What a special moment you had with the soft pink Macaw. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for this info on the macaw spirit animal Tanya ? so what l needed to hear now and incredibly pertinent!
You’re so welcome! I’m glad I could help share this message for you. Thanks
Hello, I just wanted to thankyou for your interpretation
On the Macaw. I had a morning dream today, and I was standing outside our house and our huge magnolia tree was full of squawking blue and gold macaws. It was beautiful. So tonight I typed in âspiritual meaning of dreaming of blue and gold macawsâ and came to your site and beautiful painting and meaning. It was all perfect and exactly true for me. Coincidence?â)
Last night I had a dream I was driving down the road I grew up on, and a group of rainbow macaws were flying overhead. A hawk plucked a feather from one of them. I opened my car window for him, and he came inside. đ
Hey thanks for sharing this is beautiful. Iâm with my 4 year old son and my father and step mother coming back home to Texas from visiting family in Kansas. We had someone pet sitting our animals while gone and a few hours from home we get the message that our blue and gold macaws ( one we adopted over 25 years ago Cortez who Iâm so connected to I believe I looked like her first mummy so she has always loved me she said my name she would be so affectionate to me and we recently adopted a male Louie which we had him only about a week. My parents were just trying to be kind and we made the mistake of trusting them with being able to roam their cages freely like we have done with Cortez for years ) weâre about a half hour from home now and the pet sitter isnât exactly sure what happened but they got spooked. Somehow and now theyâre dead in boxes and Iâm absolutely gutted. We have dogs also apparently they arenât bloody or anything so we are unsure of the cause of death but i came across this site while looking into the spiritual meaning of them and I love this message and I feel it definitely applies to me in every way. Iâd love a portrait of Cortez I appreciate your art and beautiful words. Thank you
could they have cooked in a non stick griddle in the bird’s presence?
that is something which could kill them all within just minutes.
so very sorry for that awful loss… I would have been devastated.
Macaws are eye catching, and interesting. I find them adoreable.