Butterfly Medicine
Butterfly represents a need for change and greater freedom, and at the same time it represents courage: one requires courage to carry out the changes necessary in the process of growth.
The butterfly is a symbol of powerful transformations. By analogy to the development of this animal, the meaning associated with the butterfly, emphasizes the ability to move from one state, perspective or lifestyle to another.
In many traditions around the world, the butterfly is a symbol of the soul or soul world. For example, in Chinese symbology, it can represent immortality. In Ancient Greece, butterflies represent the psyche or soul, and its attribute of immortality.
Scientific research has shown that the butterfly is the only living being capable of changing entirely its genetic structure during the process of transformation: the caterpillar's DNA is totally different from the butterfly's. Thus, it is the symbol of total transformation.
The butterfly is one of the most emblematic totem animals symbolizing personal transformation. If Butterfly comes to you, it guides you to be sensitive to your personal cycles of expansion and growth, as well as the beauty of life’s continuous unfolding. An important message carried by the spirit of the butterfly is about the ability to go through important changes with grace and lightness. They could be related to your own perspective on a subject, aspects of your personality, or personal habits.
Butterfly medicine is the never-ending cycle of self-transformation, reincarnation, and magic. To use Butterfly medicine, observe your position in the cycle of self-transformation or transmutation. Like Butterfly, you are always at a certain station in your life activities. You may be at the egg stage, which is the beginning of all things. This is the stage at which an idea is born, but has not yet become a reality. The larva stage is the point at which you decide to create the idea in the physical world. The cocoon stage involves "going within"; doing or developing your project, idea, or aspect of personality. The final stage of transformation or transmutation is the leaving of the chrysalis and birth. The last step involves sharing the colors and joy of your creation with the world.
‘Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.’
-Rumi