Spirit Guide of the day is Turkey! A gift will be coming your way soon whether this is in the form of something large or simple. Watch for any material, spiritual, or intellectual gifts you may receive. Use this time to look past your own needs to those of the others around you such as community or family. This may mean some volunteer work for an organization you support. Think about doing work that honors the earth. Your actions could also be large like a ritual or smaller like simply helping to pick up litter. The Turkey guide is known for it's connection to shared blessings and harvests. Also called the Earth Eagle, this creature is a symbol of honoring the Earth Mother and is a symbol of all the blessings that the Earth contains. Native Americans hold complex lore surrounding the Turkey of how they helped create the world and showed humans how to raise corn. The waddle possessed by male Turkey can swell occasionally and connects with the opening and closing of the Third Eye. Their preference for gathering in groups and even sharing communal nests for their eggs ties them to the gifts of sharing. People who connect with Turkey prefer to be near forests areas where they can appreciate the earth, although these adaptable types are comfortable in a wide range of environments. These individuals are social, slightly awkward types that love to share with others. When necessary, they are sharp-witted and alert with an urge to do what they can to help others in need.

Turkey, Meleagris, are large, plump birds with long legs, wide rounded tails, and a small head on a slim neck. They are darkly colored with a bronze-green iridescence to their feathers with dark wings striped in bright white that matches the white color that tips their rump and tail feathers. They can have a wingspan of up to 56 inches, weigh as much as 25 lbs, and live up to 12 years in the wild. Turkeys are native to North America, found in all of the United States except for Alaska as well as parts of Mexico and southern Canada. These birds will prefer various types of forest depending on where they live. Southwestern Turkeys prefer open, grassy areas with small oak trees while those in the Southeast prefer forests containing trees such as pine, beech, pecan, elm, and underbrush such as rose, buttonbush, huckleberry, or blueberry. Turkeys in the Northeast prefer humid forests of red oak, cheery, and white ash. A turkey's diet consists of foraged plant matter, acorns, fruits, nuts, cherries, and seeds. In the the winter, they will turn to evergreen ferns, fronds, mosses, and hemlock buds while in late spring and summer, the are known to strip seeds from grasses. At times, these omnivores will widen their diet with snails, beetles, salamanders, and other insects. In order to digest this range of food, they will swallow grit and small rocks like other birds. These social creatures often gather in flocks to forage. Male turkeys will form all-male flocks while their young will gather together in flocks that often combine into larger family groups under two or more adult females. Each gender group has it's own hierarchy. The female's will hold a solid pecking order whereas the male flocks will constantly adjust and change their male hierarchy. These birds can fly and will often resort to that when threatened, although males will usually prefer to run while the females will fly away from danger. When roosting, turkeys will fly into the lower branches of trees where they can climb into comfortable, safe places to sleep high up in the tree. During the breeding season, the two genders will mix more. Male turkey will make their iconic gobbling noise in order to attract females and warn away males, looking to breed with multiple females that they court by strutting around with their wide tails open, wings lowered, and humming loudly. When laying eggs, a female will create a shallow depression scratched into the soil that can be as wide as 11 inches and as long as 13 inches, but only a scant inch deep. These nests are padded with dead leaves and plant materials from within the area of the nest being made. At times, these nests will even be shared with other females and their eggs. The chicks are born well-developed and covered with soft down colored brown, gray, or pinkish. Male Turkeys do not care for the young, leaving the chicks to the females who feed them until they learn to find food on their own.