“Every moment the universe is whispering to you. There are messages for you carried on the winds. There is wisdom for you in the morning songs of birds outside your window and in the soft murmurs of a waning sea. Even the ordinary, all the days the events in your life carry communications from the spirit realm.
~~ Denise Linn, The Secret Language of Signs
Have you ever wondered if there is meaning behind the everyday events of life? Or a groundhog shows up and stays instead of shuffling off to a lair or secret hideout. Or maybe a hawk swoops down every time you venture out.
Are these random occurrences? Is there any meaning behind the appearance of these animals at this time?
Yes and no.
If you feel there is a connection, some meaning behind these sightings, then there is. If, on the other hand, you barely noticed any of the animals or barely felt a connection, then probably not, not right now.
Sometimes we bump into each other at random, other times there is meaning in the step.
I think that those times when I see an animal that is not usually close to people or my area, or when I see an animal repeatedly, these visits are thought visits for me and the meaning of these visits is for me to guess.
Let me give you an example from my life right now. For the past three weeks, every time I go out or look out the kitchen window, a beautiful large Tiger Swallowtail butterfly drifts past. And stays as long as I do. Sometimes it is the yellow and black version of the Tiger Swallowtail and other times it is the mostly black version.
At first I thought it was a wonderful sign of the vibrancy of summer. But as the sightings became more frequent, I began to feel a deeper connection and symbolic meaning.
According to Denise Linn in her book, The secret language of signsbutterfly signals a powerful new beginning, a time of transformation, beauty and new consciousness, a rebirth.
And Ted Andrews, author of talk about animals, says that butterflies represent the process of transformation. Butterfly appears when we are changing, evolving in some way.
Butterfly reminds us that life is a dance, a journey from moment to moment, from flower to flower, from experience to experience. The sweetness of life is experienced in dance…or maybe the sweetness of life is experienced in the way we choose to dance.
The butterfly is a totem that has flown into my life on several occasions. The first time I remember was during my first Feng Shui training. I had a powerful dream in which a butterfly came out of its chrysalis, spread its beautiful wings and took off. Initially, my idea was to call my business Emerging Butterfly, but then I realized that I was the emerging butterfly. Emerging from what had been and taking off, flying towards what was to be.
The butterfly that appears in my life now is also significant. I am at a time of change and transition in my life once again. Only this time, the transition involves my family and our relationships with each other. As we transition from parent-child to adult relationships, we all need to break free from our past patterns and embrace ourselves as we are now: loving adults. (Of course, I’ll always be the mom!) And in this transition, I feel our space condense, strengthen, and crystallize.
There is such beauty and opportunity in change. I am grateful that the butterfly came to remember me and show me how much fun the flight of life can be!
“Those who dance are considered crazy by those who cannot hear the music.” ~George Carlin
Butterfly invites you to embrace the dance!