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.