It was a pleasant July morning as I cycled to the gym on the first main road from my house, taking my time and pedaling away. It was then I noticed something on the road ahead and as I got closer I realized it was an animal not moving. Slowing down and riding past I saw it was a squirrel and dead by the looks of it unfortunately. I didn’t want to leave him on the road to be repeatedly run over so I stopped my bike and spun round.

Pulling up parallel with the squirrel on the grass verge I watched a car coming towards me and expected the driver to drive over the squirrel again, fortunately he didn’t though, but straddled him instead. Looking around I saw no other cars traveling towards me so walked into the road and looked at the squirrel. It wasn’t too badly mauled, I would guess he had been hit only once and not actually run over. One of his legs was sticking in the air but this was due to rigamortis rather than injury, clearly he’d been dead for a while. Picking him up by the tail I gently placed him on the grass verge where he wouldn’t be hit any more.

After a few seconds looking at him and a silent prayer of blessing I turned to my bike and mounted to cycle away. Something was nagging at me though, I had a feeling at the back of my neck. Pausing as I was about to pedal off I turned around and looked back. Focusing for a second I listened, feeling. The squirrels spirit was still there! I found this strange as the body had obviously been dead for sometime so I had another look to make sure…then i saw it, his spirit was trying to hide in his body still, looking lost and very scared!  It couldn’t quite make it work though so kept “slipping” out. Almost in but not quite.

Closing my eyes I immediately asked my guides for help and called down a portal for him to cross over. A beautiful white golden circle of light appeared close by. I walked over to the squirrel, and called for him to come to me and the light. But he couldn’t hear me or more likely was too confused and afraid. Looking at the portal I saw some beautiful squirrels all round the edge and inside, beckoning to him with loving energy to come over. The recently become spirit squirrel took almost no notice though….frantically trying to stay in his inert, lifeless body.

Realizing I would have to take a more direct hand in this, my spirit form walked over to the squirrel and lovingly placed my spirit hands into the unmoving physical body, tenderly cupping the squirrel spirit. Carefully and slowly lifting him out, I carried him to the portal and gently reached in to pass the squirrel into the circle of light where his friends waited and he was greeted with love and empathy. For a moment the portal stayed visible, the squirrel with his friends, visibly calmer and then it was gone.

Standing for a few seconds I felt the “rightness” of what had happened. A sense of peace came over me and I knew I had done a good thing. Glancing up I saw a car go past and a pedestrian walked by me. He must have wondered what I was doing but paid me little attention. Thanking my guides and the Divine, blessing the squirrel and wishing him good fortune I got back on my cycle and started pedalling. I had done a good thing today and was pleased.