One of the best things about spring in Southern California is that you get to see Monarch butterflies. The months of February and March are filled with this beautiful, elegant feminine like creature that glides about the sky, uplifting our mood. But we tend to forget what the butterfly has gone through, how it has struggled to reach its place on the breeze.
Our path of transformation can be likened to that of the butterfly. Generally, when we embrace transformation, we only want to think of the end result. We don’t want to think about the work that goes into it, or the sacrifices well have to make to be able to soar.
Transformation begins with the Universe uncomfortably pressing us into desiring something better for ourselves. We may not know what it is that we want, just that we have this impulsion for something more.
Originally, the butterfly was once a caterpillar, inching across the grass to climb up the marigold to reach its daily meal. Its main drive was to eat, to fill its stomach.
The same could be said of us. Before we begin to transform, we have a compulsion to meander around; reading spiritual books, listening to tapes, attending lectures, digesting information.
We’re still in the old form, fattening our minds to get ready to build a cocoon, where we will use all that we’ve digested to transform our lives into a greater reflection of our highest good.
Once our appetite has been satiated, we feel compelled to allow what we’ve learned to gestate. Letting it process is like the caterpillar inside its cocoon. The time to incubate. It may last for days, weeks or months. While this is happening, we are slowly changing. We may not see the change, but there are parts of us that are being released, transformed and altered. All we know is that we are ill at ease.
But when the transformation is complete, we like the butterfly can begin an emergence from what held us back and we feel the rapture of having been set free!
Have you experienced this? Do share your process.
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