Animal Spirit Guides Candle with Amulet
The characteristics of animals—from birds and insects to mammals, fish, and reptiles—relate to our human walk on this planet, providing us with lessons and helping us mindfully focus our intentions for our life experiences. Animal medicine offers us a powerful signpost for self-knowledge and clarity on life’s challenges. When a creature from nature appears to you repetitively or in some out-of-the-ordinary way, it is time to pay attention and find the message that nature is bringing you. This requires mindfulness and contemplation. Read the messages within these pages and take time to think about what these characteristics symbolize for you.
Remember, everything is energy, and all energy has a vibration. Plants and animals hold an energetic vibration. Rocks and crystals hold an energetic vibration. Colors hold an energetic vibration. Energetic vibrations reveal themselves to us as symbols and signs, offering us clues to light our path. Awareness of these signs and symbols is essential for gaining the insight we are looking for to keep us on our desired course in life. Maintaining mindfulness is the key to self-actualization, which allows us to create our vision. Actualization is simply the action that makes something real in our lives. Mindfulness is our living experience, clearly realizing and being conscious of our thoughts and feelings in the present moment.
Butterfly totem is an ally for when you are about to make a significant change in your life. The butterfly effect is a theory that the slightest change can have very big effects somewhere else. With this in mind, even the smallest of changes in your perception or the way you think can change your life significantly. Your choices in this moment through realizations and the way you look at things make up your life experiences. Just as a butterfly begins as an egg and goes through many stages to reach the point of metamorphosis, you, too, have the opportunity to create your reality in stages with every thought, word, feeling, and action.
When Butterfly appears in your life, take the time to observe your situation and become aware of imminent changes. You may be on the precipice of a new chapter of your life or a new way of looking at life.
~ excerpt from Animal Totems and the Gemstone Kingdom by Margaret Ann Lembo
