What do butterflies symbolize?
April 15th 2008 05:18
Maybe they stand for new beginnings. It went through metamorphosis after all. From a hairy little caterpillar, it cocooned itself and became a beautiful butterfly. A new life, a new outlook, new wings to explore the world. Sorta like Ugly Duckling becoming a beautiful Swan.
I grew up with the belief that butterflies are souls from departed loved ones. Creepy really. If I walk into a butterfly farm, I'd be fine. I'd appreciate them for their natural beauty. But if I'm walking down the road and a butterfly flits across me, I'd freeze. Superstition is that it's a loved one coming to visit.
Beware of the black butterfly, the elders shared. That means someone close to you is going to die. I hate black butterflies.
And so to me, butterflies aren't that cute. I grew up looking at butterflies as signs of our mortality. All because of the superstition!
Butterflies are beautiful, dainty little creatures. What do they mean to you?
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I guess in literature/culture, they symbolise death and rebirth, or change, but for me personally they symbolise my irrational fear of something that 99% or more of the world likes.
Comment by Mia
Butterflies symbolise fragility to me. I was once told that they can only live for 3 days before dying. So I always see them as evidence that beauty and happiness may be short-lived but are all the more to be cherished as a result.
I never knew black butterflies existed, I would have thought them to moths. I can't stand moths. I once saw a documentary about old French superstitions which classified animals as either being associated with God and good or the devil. Butterflies and moths were not in the same class. Neither were toads and frogs.
My malaysian friend has told me of the connection between butterflies and the deceased. In the days after death, the arrival of a white butterfly/moth signifies the departure of the soul from the body. Or something like that. He has seen and waited for the white butterfly along with many other family members whilst guarding a body in a room in a house.
In the city where I live there is a particular route taken by a certain white species of butterfly. I don't know where they are headed but I used to work along the way and it was amazing to see hundreds upon hundreds of these white butterflies all fluttering down the street in the same direction. You wouldn't even notice unless you looked.
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raven: Interesting poetry!
cheryl: That's right. I hardly see butterflies now too. In the older days, there were butterflies in the city. Now I don't think they can exist with all the pollution.
Irene: Wow, that's quite scary. Steer clear of meadows then! I understand a little bit of how you're feeling. I can't bring myself to like them because of what they symbolize. Even if they are harmless!
Mia: The flutter of white butterflies sounds beautiful, but it would probably give me the creeps!
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Also a week ago we had a hedgehog in the kitchen and went into the living room.
could someone try and give me answer please.
thank you x
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my son who was only 19 years old.
I am totaly devastated and can't stop crying.
it happened 1 month ago.
I really don't know if I will make it through all of this.
Last week a Butterfly almost flew right into my face while I was sitting there in my car in the driveway and again today 20 feet up on top of the filter deck at work a Butterfly flew right by me.
I always thought they liked to be down low around the bushes and stuff'
Flew right by my head about 2 feet away.
Weird huh?
Thanks for listening folks..
Pete
Comment by Anonymous
now coming home the same coloured brown butterfly flew out of no where at 6.10pm while getting out of the car and ready to open the front door of my home and off it flew away. I put this on face book and a family friend said its a lost soul and im thinking what the???? can someone help me on this one please.
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The butterfly reminds me that God is not finished with me yet, or with anyone I am around so it reminds me to be patient, with myself and with others.
The butterfly also reminds me that struggles in life are necessary. If someone helps a butterfly out of its crysalis, it will never fly, it needs that hard work to strengthen its wings, so when trials come, I know God is preparing me and giving me strenth. I have been making and giving away butterflies for many years and spreading the love and beauty of the butterfly to many.
Comment by Anonymous
and now that i read all of these articles its weird,,, like, am i an omen or somthing lol?
ive been collecting butterflies for a while
Comment by nursejun
Last year July 2010, my mom went home for a trip from Saudi. She was a flight nurse who worked on Saudi Armed Forces for 14 years. When she had her vacation, she stayed here for a month, that time, it was my first time to see her that she's really different because before, she's really happy, almost everytime, and its been her routine to travel in nearby towns whenever she's here in Ph. Before, she enjoyed shopping, cooking, and ballroom dancing, but, all the things I mentioned were in contrast on what she did.
She prepared the house for visitors and put black curtains, made some thank you cards, wrote her last will, took "a lot" of pictures and transfered all her possessions in our name. I did find it morbid, but I ignored it. Until we visited a visionary somewhere in La Union wherein my mom believes on everything she says. Again, for the first time, I heard a traggic, gorry, and morbid statements coming from the mouth of the visionarry. It pissed me off and I wanted to leave the room, but my mom stopped me.
She told me to stay and listen.
I qoute only the things I remember.
"Huwag ka ng bumalik ng Saudi, dahil ang nakikita ko sayo ay kamatayan, dugo, usok, apoy, hiwahiwalay ang inyong katawan, sunog, at hindi mo na makikita ang iyong mga anak." in English: "Dont go back to Saudi because I see death on you and you will never see your children again."
This was the statement that I do remember since the day we went there. The visionary also whisppered something on my mom which made my mother cry and that made her go out of the room. After a few minutes of calming my mom, the visionary told me to sit in front of her, she told me: "Alagaan mo ang iyong kapatid, dahil ikaw ang kuya at kayo nalang ang naiiwan, ipagdasal mo rin ang kaligtasan ng iyong ina dahil may tatahakin syang matinding misyon." In English "Take care of your brother and pray for your mom as she goes on a difficult mission."
August 2010, my mom booked her flight on going back to Saudi to work. Almost everyday, I texted her that she should always pray everytime she goes on a mission.
Days passed, and I noticed something every morning in front of our appartment, "the same black big butterfly with violet and yellow linings on its wings" on the same spot where I see it every day. Out of my curiosity, I went near the butterfly but it flew on top of our roof. I also tried to take a picture of it using my dslr with zoom lens but I couldnt get a good shot
even at shutter priority with correct settings, and whenever i upload it on my computer, my sd cards gets corrupted. I tried this several times but it didnt worked so I just ignored it.
Christmas eve of 2010, its been our habbit to chat on Skype to celebrate the holliday. I saw again this butterfly entered our appartment and went to my mom's picture. But me and my bro ignored it because we were enjoying the chitchat as we ate our noche buena with my mom. The same thing happened on New Years Eve. The same butterfly...
Until I dreamed something that is really weird. I saw my mom on a dessert crying and seeking for help. That was the only thing i remembered.
January 7, 2011 3:07 PM - the hanggar of Saudi Armed Forces called me on my cellphone that the helicopter which my mom rode and so with the crew #1 chief pilot, 1 co- pilot, and an egyptian doctor# was missing and they're doing already a search and rescue operation. Then I suddenly prayed on the altar and hoping my mom and the crew were safe. Suddenly, the same butterfly I saw so many times entered again our appartment and stayed on my mom's picture. I went to it and I noticed that the big black butterfly was dead.
After 5mins, I received again a call from the Hangar, this time I almost collapsed on what I heard. "The helicopter where my mom's at was found in the rocky plains and 4 bodies were found dead#including my mother#. The evac helicopter exploded as it reached the ground.All the body parts were found everywhere on the crash site, burned, and not even identifiable. The only thing that confirmed their identity were there dogtags.
This is what happened to my loving mother.
this is the link of the saudi news.http://www.saudigazette. com.sa/index.cfm?method=home. regcon&contentID=201101089082
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Does this have any significance?
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