Butterflies :)

Butterflies in your stomach? Anyone who knows me well knows I adore butterflies. Yeah I know...you feel like puking! Hey I can't help what I like!!

Round the world, butterflies are seen as the departed souls of our ancestors. Indigenous people recongnise the chrysalis as the soul trapped inside in the body. The emergence of the adult butterfly symbolises the freedom of the soul upon death.

The modern day symbol of butterflies in the western world is one of freedom, fun and joyous times. It is also a symbol for a state of nautralness and purity.

The Greeks associated the butterfly's constant flitting from flower to flower with the restlessness of the mind, constantly changing from subject to subject. Infact the Greek word for butterfly is "psyche" from where we get our word psychology!

In Germany the sighting of a butterfly is regarded as an Omen of birth where as the Maya describe butterflies as spirits of the dead in disuguise as they return to earth.

A butterfly flying in one's face indicates the coming of cold weather. Butterflies aslo represent abundance. Different tribes in Mexico use them to represent the harvest of summer.

Butterflies have also been known to symbolize witches due to their inherent transformative abilities and the magic of the witch. The Serbians see the butterfly as the soul of a witch and their concept of the soul may explain why many medieval angels have butterfly wings rather than bird wings or feathers.

Butterflies also display beauty and grace, representing the male and female sensuality and femininity.

They are the classic metaphor of transformation and ultimate freedom, as well as impermanence and fragility.

To me they are a beautiful change that lies within us all.....it's when things happen in our life bad or good....we are given an opportunity to make change just like the butterfly. I want to flutter....