Ah, the wonder of Butterflies
and the lessons that they teach us.
Transformation
Hello
October, my time flies... Morning light changes, the darkness was
quiet here, the littles are still sleeping as I feel the gentle breeze move, the fall is of our year here. The butterflies will come today,I can feel it as I type my
thoughts for this day... Yesterday the sun was bright and the day gifted
me with more than one beautiful butterfly... they danced and danced, performing
for me for the longest time... reminding me of the transformation with
each graceful dip and swoop across the plants and then high up to the
trees; and back for me to admire. I love butterflies ...
That reminds me of a story~ and I HOPE it will fill your heart today ~
Many,
many years ago back when the Earth was still quite new, there once
lived a beautiful butterfly who lost her mate in battle.
To
show her grief, she took off her beautiful wings and wrapped herself in
a ashen cocoon. In her sadness, she could not sleep, she could not eat
and her relatives kept coming to her lodge to see if she about her. She
grew weary of them asking, she didn't want to be a burden on her people
so she gathered her wings and her medicine bundle and went away on a
long journey.
She
wandered about for many days and months, until she had gone all around
the world. On her journey she kept her eyes downcast and stepped on
each stone she came to as she crossed fields and creeks and streams.
There came a time, one day as she was looking down, she happened to
notice the stone beneath her feet, and it was so beautiful that it
healed her sorrow, almost as if something "clicked" within her right at
that moment in time.
She then cast aside her dark cocoon, shook the dust from her wings, and donned them once more.
She
was so happy she began to dance to give thanks ~ wado~ for another
chance to begin her life anew. Then she went home and told The People
about her long journey, where she had been, the things at the creek, how
it had "clicked" and how it felt to fly differently now with her wings
once again, and how it had healed her.
The Legend Continues To This Day...
To
this day,The People dance the "Fancy Shawl Dance" as an expression of
renewal, transformation and to give thanks for new seasons, new life,
and new beginnings.
The
shawl in the Fancy Shawl Dance represents the butterfly's wings, the
fancy steps and twirls represent the butterfly's style of flight. This
is another reason you will sometimes hear the Fancy Shawl Competition
Dance referred to as "the butterfly dance", and it is most beautiful to watch and to participate in.
As
we approach the dark months, many feel the urge to cocoon now, but "click" in a
moment, you may want to fold your blanket neatly (cocoon of modern
times) and STOMP... be a butterfly and dance, to the sounds of life, the
drum of your heart beat and rejoice in the great gratitude that you are
alive today...
"The
caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the
caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die,
it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth
to the butterfly of the universe."
{John Harricharan}
The
fire is burning brightly with thoughts on the wind for all in our
prayer bowl ... and all who gather here, please hold those up in
thoughts that you see and know from the names posted here on Sundays'
just because you can and choose to ...
For that I give thanks, and so it is !
Walk In Beauty,
DRSES
author of
Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life
1 comment:
Have watched the dance and it is beautiful.. Prayers for all. Loved the story !!!!!!!
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