Butterfly Medicine

I had to do some unexpected work today that kept me from getting to the FFG as soon as I would have liked. It isn’t to say that it was disagreeable work but, in all honesty, had everything to do with the message today.

I was finishing my lunch and had the momentary pleasure of seeing a butterfly dart across the front of my window. “Oh!” I thought, “Butterfly Medicine! I love Butterfly Medicine!” ;)

Butterfly is a creature that is not necessarily Fae. It does not, as in our definition, take care of the energy of both the Spiritual and Physical planes. Butterfly though carries a very important message that the Fae love to support and do so by giving Butterfly the nutrition it needs through the nectar in flowers and the leaves for it to eat when it is a young caterpillar.

Butterfly teaches us all to reach for our potential and how the growth and transformation in the middle can be truly magical. Think for just a moment the growth that a Butterfly goes through when it starts as a young caterpillar. It grows by eating and eating until it is time to change. We can learn so much from the process of Butterfly’s life by listening to its growth phase alone. It isn’t telling you to eat and eat until you are so full you cannot move, but to eat so you CAN grow and so you CAN transform. – to fill yourselves and your lives with things you can grow and be nurtured from. This is not only in food but in friends, family, and environment.

The rest of Butterfly’s growth is done in a space we cannot see. It is truly a room that is secretive and silent, no views and nothing from the outside world is aloud in until the full and total growth process and the transformation has been completed. And what a change too! Nothing is as completely wonderful in its total change as Butterfly. Not only is it a completely different form, but it has a new identity, has new strengths, new abilities, and… wings that are often times so breath taking, we haven’t any choice but to stop and stare with marvel and wonderment.

How wonderful a message that is – to grow and TRANSFORM into such a state of beauty that you are literally breathtaking and stop the world in its tracks. This is not true just for Butterfly , but for all of us. We have to choose to grow, to seek our potential and to STRIVE for it, knowing that the work in the middle is well-worth the change and utter beauty at the end. Butterfly can be sought after when you are looking to see where your potential may be. We all have a wonderful light to share with ourselves and the world. The truth in Butterfly Medicine is that it doesn’t just stop there but it has the potential to only keep getting better.