Butterfly: Symbols and Signs from the Otherside

Butterflies always seem to create a strong emotional response. Just by their beauty and graceful flight they attract our attention. Sometimes, appearing to simply float through the garden and other times as a symbol to someone we have loved, and is no longer on this physical plane. The importance of spirit’s timing cannot be under estimated. Just when our thoughts drift to a wishing or a longing a butterfly finds its way into our sight. The believers all know that “grandma” was just here to wish us well—and to let us know she is fine. Naysayers simply call it nonsense. (Although, it difficult for me to understand why anyone would want to go through life looking only for what seemed to be the rational and the reasonable.) But, for those who will believe the magic and mystery, spirit is as real as the colors and symmetry the butterfly displays. We could even suppose for those doubters that perhaps the message is as factual as the insects own transformation. For who would suppose the lonely caterpillars’ rebirth would be a “badly decoded message “or symbol for us too!

But why wait? There is no need to wait until we transition to the Otherside to make that leap! You don’t have to be someone who follows what we all follow; the journey is yours. You have permission to soar. In terms of your own sense of what spirit is about, all you need to know is there is more than what you are adding up the parts to be: that is enough. And of course, the butterfly reminds us of this.

Even the most majestic bird doesn’t hold the mystery and majesty of the simple butterfly. For it is the vibrant color. It is the lightness. It is the texture of the velvet. It is the beautiful transformation that goes on from one part of its being to another. That is why it holds such a truth and such a strong resilient signal to all of us in human form. It gives us that recognition that if this can be the case, then it can be the case for all of us. You don’t have to wait for yourself to die. You don’t have to wait for the transition of another. Just notice what the butterfly is all about. Recognize you are a butterfly. You hold that magic inside of you. Author, Richard Bach once said, ‘What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly’. So, take that butterfly—and let others know—it is a signal and sign for them. They hold the magic and majesty of the butterfly that is within them, and they don’t have to wait until they die to discover it.

Haiti Earthquake

So what has the latest crisis got to do with spirituality? We have seen the suffering and hardship not once, but many times befall this small nation in the Caribbean. All the major networks have their reporters on the island sharing the devastation of befallen buildings while the dead lay side by side on sidewalks;causalities from this impressive earthquake. On a very human side, the world has thankfully joined together--laying aside our differences and focusing instead on an outpouring of love--accepted with love and gratitude by their President.

So many levels, meanings and things elude us in our human condition, but all eyes focused on Haiti certainly will have a measurable effect within our hearts as we join and thus our shift as human beings becomes unmistakable. And love, which is perhaps our soul's true mission on the earth plane, is often overlooked, deemed unimportant and insignificant by most that have no problem casting judgment on the homeless on our streets. So, it seems to take something of this magnitude (pun intended) to make us all stop; question, ponder, and ask why? What is the bigger spiritual picture? Can we view this situation differently and make sense of what we see broadcast into our homes over this natural event called earthquake?

So I present it here . . . a very different perspective. Not to take away from the compassion and empathy surrounding this situation, but to suggest that we each incarnate to earth for different feelings, different experiences, and yes, different events that seem to cataclysmic. To recognize and know that there are moments where souls clearly together and on mass take themselves to another dimension. Again, this is not something that we should judge, but entertain, that the idea of transitioning and transitioning in such numbers with others in the collective and of our energy force has a power that we cannot fully understand and that there is something else going on here. We must acknowledge the grander sense of who they are. For when souls are able to go together--a feeling of being a part of something of great significance and relating to the whole universe as their spirits leave this plane.

This is not something we easily understand or accommodate in our minds, but it is indeed something worth thinking about and pondering. These grand and glorious souls are doing something for the larger collective and we should give them credit. We must be acquainted with this so that we can step forward and begin to think differently. To assess these events differently is important as we bring our wondrous love and compassion for each other, not merely to dismiss the event as catastrophic, but as a wondrously divine, honorable, timely and energetic transition for the benefit of all.

Annie

“It is indeed a beautiful moment when we see no barriers and no boundaries between who we are, no matter what dimension we inhabit in whatever way our consciousness lets us know it. It is a beautiful thing to realize no lines—no walls between us—we are just as one.” Annie

It almost sounds like the script from a Harry Potter movie—a death day celebration. Yet, for our beloved and dear friend Annie, Sister, and Mother, we joined together and we celebrated and remembered the day she died. Annie is a great example to us, that anything eternal is real. Annie is real, yet simply existing in another dimension. She makes herself known in so many ways to us who are still in physical 3rd dimensional form. (Usually, she appears in the form of a yellow butterfly to me—just out of nowhere!) No party could be complete without cake—and cake there was—along with champagne and a cheer filled toast! To Annie—our wise teacher—always around everywhere and every day.

I say this only to emphasis that it is this way for all souls who leave the physical plane and their human bodies behind. We know she is alive and vibrant in her new form as energy—a state that we will all return to—the real “home” for each of us!