The Glasswing Butterfly
“A butterfly with transparent wings is rare and beautiful. As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change. Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings of the Glasswing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of turquoise, orange, green, and red.
"All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed; in life, that which is unnoticed, has the most power.”
April 29, 2008
I received one of those pass-around-forward-upside-down emails complete with full color pictures of the glass wing butterfly. I don’t know what it is about butterflies but I get full of hope, joy and inspiration when I see one or a dozen. I don’t see that many at all anymore. Life in the big city I guess. The new place where I moved has a nice landscape so that I see hummingbirds every once in awhile. I love hummingbirds too. They remind me there’s beauty in the world and it’s such a gift to see it in motion.
In Indian Medicine cards, the Hummingbird signifies joy while the Butterfly signifies transformation. Both cards can be read upright and reversed, meaning, depending how the card ends up in the totem card spread, it carries a different message. A reversed Butterfly card means you are resisting your transformation into a new life or from your cocoon to a new “birth.” The Hummingbird reversed card means that you have been seeing life through joyless eyes. That deep within “your sadness is your joy upside down.” Now that is something to reflect on. Your joy can also be your sadness or in your sadness is your joy. Or pain can be good or suffering is almost hedonistic. Okay, I think that’s getting a little masochistic and not the real meaning. But I think I was onto something. All I know is when I weep, I weep. And sometimes it feels like the tears will never stop. Then there is a little light somewhere that somehow seeps through and in the middle of it all there’s the eye of the hurricane where all is peaceful and calm and you feel everything will be all right.
That’s sort of what I feel like now. I feel like I’m in the eye of the storm. I’ve made so many transformations in my life that I definitely feel as if I’m resisting this one. But this is the big one. This is the big hurricane. I can’t tell if it’s male or female. I’ll call it iahklu'. Hurricane iahklu'. Which means…I don’t know but I finished this book last night that turned on a bit of that light and in the middle of the main character’s understanding of his dilemma, there was that word and with it, a sense of peace about what was to come.
The main character had a problem where he would dream during sleep and then wake up to find reality changed the way he had dreamed it while sleeping. Only it was an involuntary change. So he was afraid to go to sleep. Then he met a man, a psychiatrist, who tried to use the main character's gift for his own purposes. So the main character has to find a way to control his dreams as well as stop the doctor from trying to make use of his dreams for the doctor's egomaniacal pursuits.
Oddly enough, this is sort of my life right now at the moment. You could insert for the doctor character any number of people I’ve met through the years in my life who have tried to take advantage of my gifts for their own use and my good nature. Because as sarcastic, aloof and callow as I may seem, underneath I’ve got a very big beautiful Italian heart. I may let you in but you’d better be careful how you use my heart and my good nature because once, twice, thrice burned I will cut you off. For good.
So in the end, the man realizes that these benevolent Aliens he dreamed that now inhabit the earth gave him the advice and wisdom and the “word” above that he is the ultimate creator of his reality. His dreams are but another world, another illusion he created and he can choose to look at his reality in a different light. He can choose to look through his pain to find the joy. It took him a little while to figure it out but when he did he lived the flip side. He transformed, he released himself from the cocoon. And on the other side of the dream, he found a new reality. That’s what he learned to dream.
It made so much sense to me. I feel like that’s what I’m looking for right now. The flip side of the dream, the release from the cocoon. Much of it is releasing people and things that don’t serve me anymore. I need to dream a better reality, find the flip side.
So iahklu'! everyone! Whatever it means. Look within. Find the joy. Transform. Change your reality. Dream a better dream. Then sup a little nectar and fly.
“All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed…”
“…in life, that which is unnoticed, has the most power.”
"All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed; in life, that which is unnoticed, has the most power.”
April 29, 2008
I received one of those pass-around-forward-upside-down emails complete with full color pictures of the glass wing butterfly. I don’t know what it is about butterflies but I get full of hope, joy and inspiration when I see one or a dozen. I don’t see that many at all anymore. Life in the big city I guess. The new place where I moved has a nice landscape so that I see hummingbirds every once in awhile. I love hummingbirds too. They remind me there’s beauty in the world and it’s such a gift to see it in motion.
In Indian Medicine cards, the Hummingbird signifies joy while the Butterfly signifies transformation. Both cards can be read upright and reversed, meaning, depending how the card ends up in the totem card spread, it carries a different message. A reversed Butterfly card means you are resisting your transformation into a new life or from your cocoon to a new “birth.” The Hummingbird reversed card means that you have been seeing life through joyless eyes. That deep within “your sadness is your joy upside down.” Now that is something to reflect on. Your joy can also be your sadness or in your sadness is your joy. Or pain can be good or suffering is almost hedonistic. Okay, I think that’s getting a little masochistic and not the real meaning. But I think I was onto something. All I know is when I weep, I weep. And sometimes it feels like the tears will never stop. Then there is a little light somewhere that somehow seeps through and in the middle of it all there’s the eye of the hurricane where all is peaceful and calm and you feel everything will be all right.
That’s sort of what I feel like now. I feel like I’m in the eye of the storm. I’ve made so many transformations in my life that I definitely feel as if I’m resisting this one. But this is the big one. This is the big hurricane. I can’t tell if it’s male or female. I’ll call it iahklu'. Hurricane iahklu'. Which means…I don’t know but I finished this book last night that turned on a bit of that light and in the middle of the main character’s understanding of his dilemma, there was that word and with it, a sense of peace about what was to come.
The main character had a problem where he would dream during sleep and then wake up to find reality changed the way he had dreamed it while sleeping. Only it was an involuntary change. So he was afraid to go to sleep. Then he met a man, a psychiatrist, who tried to use the main character's gift for his own purposes. So the main character has to find a way to control his dreams as well as stop the doctor from trying to make use of his dreams for the doctor's egomaniacal pursuits.
Oddly enough, this is sort of my life right now at the moment. You could insert for the doctor character any number of people I’ve met through the years in my life who have tried to take advantage of my gifts for their own use and my good nature. Because as sarcastic, aloof and callow as I may seem, underneath I’ve got a very big beautiful Italian heart. I may let you in but you’d better be careful how you use my heart and my good nature because once, twice, thrice burned I will cut you off. For good.
So in the end, the man realizes that these benevolent Aliens he dreamed that now inhabit the earth gave him the advice and wisdom and the “word” above that he is the ultimate creator of his reality. His dreams are but another world, another illusion he created and he can choose to look at his reality in a different light. He can choose to look through his pain to find the joy. It took him a little while to figure it out but when he did he lived the flip side. He transformed, he released himself from the cocoon. And on the other side of the dream, he found a new reality. That’s what he learned to dream.
It made so much sense to me. I feel like that’s what I’m looking for right now. The flip side of the dream, the release from the cocoon. Much of it is releasing people and things that don’t serve me anymore. I need to dream a better reality, find the flip side.
So iahklu'! everyone! Whatever it means. Look within. Find the joy. Transform. Change your reality. Dream a better dream. Then sup a little nectar and fly.
“All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed…”
“…in life, that which is unnoticed, has the most power.”
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