The butterfly stands for transformation. This beautiful creature has to go a long way before it is allowed to fly around on Mother Earth in all kinds of colors and sizes. It starts its life as a small caterpillar, which eats as much leaves as possible. Then begins the phase of the adult caterpillar, which can vary in appearance, from boring to the most beautiful colors.
At a certain moment, only the caterpillar knows which, it starts to nestle in a cocoon. A kind of place for retreat, let’s say. Once fully nestled in, a complicated process of total transformation starts. And at some point, this new form knows when it is time to break free. Open the cocoon, unfold the wings and fly off into the world as a completely new form with a clean slate.
Your path
Humans have a similar process in them. There is a time of being born with an empty hard drive, which acts as a kind of sponge and for about 18 to 24 years records everything there is to record. Then you have laid some kind of foundation and are ready for your first job and real home. You probably got a driver’s license and maybe a car or motorbike. Which means you can move around and are less and less dependent on others.
Now it is up to you as an adult caterpillar to make the most out of it. Your experiences have given you baggage as well. That is why you have become a boring type and hide in ditto clothing colors. You are not looking for a challenge in your work, you are looking for stability. There is nothing wrong with that, because at least you always know where you stand.
Or you are a ‘wait and see’ kind of type, who has little faith in mankind and perhaps allows a few friends in his or her immediate surroundings. Your clothing is understated with an occasional splash or a colorful accent. Because you actually want to know everything before it has happened, it is difficult to make choices.
Is it the right thing to do? Does that job really suit you? You may also find that nothing is too crazy for you and that yellow and purple are the best match for you. You dress colorfully and your actions are the same. You hop from one job to another, but you never really find your place anywhere. You’re the center at parties and you like to be in the spotlight. Or you love attention and sometimes it doesn’t matter where it comes from.
Do you recognize yourself in something? Know, dear cherished one, that everyone is good as they are. Don’t look at the caterpillar in yellow purple clothing and think it’s weird or odd or maybe you get the feeling that you’d actually like to have a little more yellow and purple, because then your life would be a lot less boring. Envy leads to nothing, just as you behave differently from who you are.
One step back
Every person gets at least one time in his life to have to retreat. Unlike the caterpillar that can only become a butterfly once, mankind has several transformation moments. If your soul thinks you are making it too colorful and too far away from your true SELF, there will be intervention.
That could be that you lose your job, get an accident, get sick (from a flu to other ailments like allergies, rashes, but it could also be worse variants), a relationship that wasn’t good for you anyway but kept being too optimistic about it, suddenly falls apart. Somehow in your world, a kind of time-out is created that upsets you. Then it’s up to you to recognize this moment as a moment of growth. The emotions that emerge as a human being will vary from anger, sadness, distrust, pain and perhaps even fear. Your head will say: Why is this happening to me (again)?
Missed the turn
Dear cherished one, it is a sign that you need to change paths. That you are not following your current mission and will reach your life’s goal, which the Universe wants you to succeed in. Even though the final choice of whether or not you make it is always up to you. When you see what has happened to you, no matter what it is, now as a time out and time to cocoon and try to figure out what you can improve.
That something deep inside you that you always wanted to be different. To find out for yourself what you can learn from the situation you are in, that there might still be pain and sorrow to process, or loss. That you stepped over events in your backpack too easily, because you didn’t want to think about them for long, sometimes out of some kind of self-protection, or if it concerns your childhood. These events all had an influence on how you grew as a caterpillar and what choices you made. Just like the caterpillar, at a certain point, the time has come to purr into her cocoon.
This is how you get these moments in your life. A moment when you realize that you have actually lost your way a little bit, without knowing exactly what will be perfect for you. In the time that you are in the cocoon, you have all the possibilities to create recovery for yourself, as long as you dare to look at your SELF.
OH, that’s scary, isn’t it? Suppose you find out that your harness is worth nothing at all. A facade that has served you for a long time to hide behind, but that suddenly doesn’t work anymore. Dear cherished one, it means it is time to retire the harness, break down the wall, see it, embrace it, because nothing is wrong. It is all part of you and has made you who you are. Often experiences have led to a certain gift or strength that you have developed. You just have never looked at it that way before.
Repeat prescription
So, listen to yourSELF in your cocoon time. Forget the outside world, don’t blame them, you created you with those outcomes. Whether they are fun or not. Every time you have listened a little, you come out of your cocoon and fly into the world. This time you think you are ready to do things completely differently.
But sometimes you don’t succeed or you let your old habits, behavior, emotions (fear) mislead you again. Before you know it, you are back in your caterpillar moment and are only crawling forward. You are still or again on the road you were already on. The Universe then provides you with a repeat prescription. Once again, you will lose your job or income, your relationship will break down, and your health will come under pressure. Again, and again the Universe will present you with the cold naked facts. It might not always be funny but know that the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly requires effort. From you, too.
The higher plan
Your higher self has a plan available for you. An intricate plan indeed. A plan in which you can just be yourself and be fully empowered. Where you can fly like a butterfly, free of old pain, sorrow and loss. A joyful plan, with joy, light and love. In which you may wake up completely healed and healthy every day, curious about the things you are going to experience that day. In which you may create a new blank slate every day and contribute positively to the greater good. Where you no longer have to defend yourself and lose yourself in anger, insecurity, fear and sorrow, but where you stand in life out of compassion and kindness. Regardless of the situation that is forced upon you.
If you ARE your true self, then you are as solid as a rock and nobody will get over it, even if they will try. That is when you have become your true butterfly full of golden light that not only amazes yourself, but so many others as well.
Affirmation: ‘I am my true self’
PS: butterflies in nature are often messengers of loved ones who are no longer on earth. Pay close attention to their colors and characteristics and FEEL who is there to let you know that he or she is with you for a moment.
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