Animal Helper: Butterfly

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posted by Cait Johnson Apr 5, 2001 2:32 am

filed under: Spirituality, Guidance

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Power Animals offer themselves to us for guidance and help with the challenges of our daily lives.

BUTTERFLY is what shamans call a shape-shifter: It changes form completely. Butterfly flutters into our lives to remind us that we are given countless opportunities to transform ourselves, to make positive changes toward greater and greater authenticity.

Simply noticing the behaviors or patterns that keep us stuck and unhappy is an important first step: when we notice, we honor the witness self, a deeper self that knows what it knows, and can help us to choose different ways of behaving that will be more in tune with the beautiful spirits we are.

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Anne F. says
Dec 20, 2009 12:27 PM

Awesome.
Thanks for reminding us that transformation is part of human growth (and we don't have to know where we're going years in advance of getting there, just take the next right step).

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Jeff J. says
Dec 20, 2009 4:56 AM

I agree...thank you...

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Bee Hive Lady says
Dec 19, 2009 8:08 AM

A butterfly, being a shape shifter, sounds like a powerful totem animal. My own totem animal is the frog. There has always been the appeal and the frog has shown up in dramatic dreams. I like to thing of the frog as a shape shifter too. After all, its life cycle has form changes from tadpole to frog. Many meditations on the changes in the frog's life cycle, had led me to see areas of my life where I could progress further spirtitually or be more helpful to the people important in my life.

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Sally Tinkham says
Dec 18, 2009 2:40 PM

yes, thank you!

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Pegasus Dreams says
Sep 4, 2007 7:27 PM

Very True - thank you.

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