Spirit Guide of the Day is Cuckoo. An unexpected change in your life either has already happened or will happen soon and will align better with yours goals in life. You don't have to suffer to reach your goal, but be more cautious about what you say or do around other people especially concerning gossip. The Cuckoo can come as a signal of change in order to keep you from being caught off-guard. Change can be a good thing, though, so do not fear, but take the advantage of knowing a change is coming in order to prepare for it. Slow down and relax for everything takes place in its own time no matter what you do. Listen to your environment and intuition through your heart, not your mind. Allow yourself to communicate your sensitivity to others. There is a strength in communicating to others. It is through this ability that you can decipher what others truly mean and to slow down in order to truly process what is going on. Think carefully before acting. While the Cuckoo is in the Road Runner family, it heralds action through deliberate thought and actions of accuracy. Allow yourself to enjoy your day and to express that joy. People who connect with Cuckoo enjoy singing, particularly uplifting songs, and enjoy jumping straight into new projects and interests. These individuals are adept at going with the flow and moving through life without struggle, able to draw people our of their shells and gain deeper understanding of them.

The Cuckoo, Cuculus Canorus, breed throughout Europe and stay in Britain between April and September while the rest of the year is spent in the south of the Sahara in Africa. At times they have been known to be found as far east as Japan. They are known in Britain as harbingers of Spring. Adult male Cuckoos have blueish-grey underparts and a white belly with dark stripes. Females have a more buff coloring with dark barring and come in a second variety sporting a reddish brown color interspersed with barred coloring throughout their body. Juvenile birds are grey colored with touches of reddish-brown. These birds have a call that matches their name, giving off a Cuck-oo, Cuck-oo to each other except for later in the year when females will give off a bubbling call. Cuckoos live in a wide range of habitats including alpine areas, marshes, and all kinds of woodland. They prefer to eat worms, spiders, and insects, even consuming a large amount of hairy caterpillars which are avoided by most other birds. The unique feature of Cuckoos includes the way they lay eggs. They are brood parasites, meaning they will lay eggs in the nests of other species rather than building a nest and raising their own eggs. A female cuckoo will establish a territory that encompasses a range of various foster nests. She will observe the nest until the right moment when she will swoop down and deposit an egg. Cuckoo eggs mimic the eggs of their most commonly used hosts species, increasing the odds of the host parents not noticing the extra egg. If noticed, the parents will abandon the nest completely. To increase the odds of the egg going unnoticed, Cuckoos will target a specific range of species. Cuckoo eggs will closely mimic up to 50 other bird species. If accepted, the unsuspecting host parents will incubate the egg and feed it after hatching. The cuckoo hatchling, however, will return the favor by quickly ejecting the other eggs and chicks out of the nest and will often grow much larger than the parent species. At times, the host parents will work themselves until starving in order to feed the ever-growing cuckoo chick. The Cuckoo is related to species such as the Coucals, Roadrunners, and Anis.