Animal Guidance Series: Butterfly Medicine

What the butterfly brings to us is the art of transformation and change. To bring butterfly medicine into your life, it is important to reflect on the lessons learned from the past to move into the next stage in your personal cycle of transformation like the butterfly, your life is part of a cycle. And you can ask yourself, is this the egg stage of beginning something new, a new idea or thought? Or is this the larva stage, a point where a decision is needing to be made to move on? Perhaps you are in the cocoon stage, a time for going within… delivering ideas into reality. Or is it the excited birth stage where you are sharing your joy with the world wherever you are in the process. With the butterfly guide, you can discover your next step in the cycle of self-transformation. Butterflies can give clarity to your mental process, helping you to organize and focus on your next step. If a butterfly comes into your life, you are ready to transform and to take on something new. That could feel like a metamorphosis. Requiring going deep into the cocoon of meditation, and letting go of fears. Feeling the release and freedom from whatever might be holding you back. Butterflies' spirit animal has gone from a caterpillar that is only capable of slowly crawling inches to a magnificent butterfly capable of flying anywhere. Butterfly conveys this message of making the seemingly impossible a reality and believing in infinite possibilities.

We can also learn from this animal to not rush the process but to nurture and heal ourselves... making contact with the essence of your deep soul self. Be aware that this may be uncomfortable, but emerging transformed will be well worth it. The butterfly power animal is about finding your inner power and true path. A miraculous transformation can take place to live the life you were meant to live. All over the world and in various cultures, butterflies are considered as a sign of good luck. Perhaps you've heard the saying that if a butterfly lands on you, it is a sign of trust, and that it is a loved one who has departed who is coming to visit you. Native American tribes have various different meanings assigned to the butterfly symbol could be a symbol of joy. Dreams, lost loved ones. And different colors have different meanings as well. For the ancient Celts, butterflies signified change, evolution and growth. Overall call on butterfly medicine to lighten up and not take things so seriously. Getting ready to find joy in the changes that you've been considering…break out of your self-imposed cocoon, releasing fears and expressing yourself more freely. If a butterfly is your power animal, you have a profound appreciation for the natural cycles of life. Colorful taste in your choice of clothing, decor, art, music and even friends. Sometimes you consider yourself a little flighty but you are very attractive to others and adjust to change easily. 

So call on the butterfly for transformation, grace, beauty, growth and even as a sign of the Divine Feminine call on the butterfly. “Call IT in With Dar!”

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