Butterfly Journey

elisaguietti
Jun 4
3 min read

Its ephemeral wings of various colours bring an experience of divine beauty to our human heart. Butterflies carry a gentle spirit, yet a powerful one that moves through a deep transformation journey. She starts her life as a caterpillar, walking the earth and finding its place within the cycle of living. Then, after shedding a few layers, she creates a comfortable cocoon for her transformation. Time within this space allows the butterfly to arise. Her body has to transform completely during this stage, which might not look pretty or comfortable, from the inside. Butterfly surrenders to the power of nature and accepts the alchemy of Spirit flowing through her. She allows change into her life with no resistance.

As they say, when the ego breaks, more spirit can come through. The journey of the caterpillar perfectly mirrors that truth.

Butterfly’s Teachings

Transformation is a slow process that requires strength and resilience. To merge with the beauty of creation we have to let go of the heavy layers of this reality. Remembering our wings and returning to wholeness is our birthright and heart desire. Butterfly Medicine embodies the energy of birth and death at its core. Death is transformation. It is not pretty or graceful, yet there is grace in transformation. Divine transformation is an expression of Grace. When we master letting go and surrender to the new expression of our soul only beauty can emerge.

Personal Reflection (Transformation & Death Cycle)

We are born in a world that doesn’t remember. Often, we too forget and fall into the ways of the unconscious. It seems that, on the earthly plane, we have to renounce our angelic/ butterfly wings and walk on our human feet.

The wings become hidden under the layers of lost memories inside our minds. The physical eyes can only see legs, feet, arms and hands. And so we walk and keep walking. We shape and create. We grasp life’s purpose, sometimes so distant from our soul.

Often, the wings become invisible to our human eyes and, to some extent, they disappear from our field of reality. We learn to walk and fall, get up and run, slow down and dance. All in search of the memory of our wings. We might have a sense of them and their presence but cannot see them still.

Eventually, life will test our faith and guide us on the soul path of re-membering.

Through our walk, we gradually peel and release the caterpillar’s layers of illusion till we can re-access the butterfly within. When we die we fly again and see the colours of our wings. We move from caterpillar to butterfly and embrace the transformation of this game.

The caterpillar, as the ego, elevates itself through the current of life on earth. It is invited to move, experience the senses, and embrace life in many aspects. Finding peace in its forms and freedom in its experience allows the wings to return. The elevation of the soul is the elevation of the spirit in its journey of remembering.

The image of the butterfly can help us understand the deep process of transformation we enter through this embodied experience as souls and human beings alike. It opens us to witness the death process that we experience through life and its cycles. Only as caterpillars, we can probably touch the physical realm to its full potential. When we fulfil our journey, the cycle naturally completes itself, showing us the butterfly mirror inside our eyes.