Butterfly Spirit Animal & Totem
Author: Elena Harris
Butterfly Symbolism
What is the meaning of the butterfly? This animal totem is primarily associated with symbolism of change and transformation.
- Powerful transformation, metamorphosis in your life, personality
- Moving through different life cycles
- Renewal, rebirth
- Lightness of being, playfulness
- Elevation from earthly matters, tuning into emotional or spiritual
- The world of the soul, the psyche
A secondary meaning of the butterfly is about finding joy in life and lightness of being.
Butterfly totem and transformation
The butterfly is a symbol of powerful transformations. By analogy to the development of this animal, the meaning associated with the butterfly emphasizes the ability to move from one state, perspective, lifestyle to another.
When the butterfly comes into your life as spirit guide, you may be going through or expect important changes in your life. More than changes in your environment, the transformation the butterfly totem points to are more internal: They could be related to your own perspective on a subject, aspects of your personality, or personal habits. Personal transformation is emblematic of the butterfly symbolism.
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Butterfly totem symbol of joy and lightness of being
When the butterfly shows up in your life as a spirit animal or totem, it might indicate the need to look at a conflicting situation with more lightness and different perspective. This totem animal is symbolic of lightness of being and elevation from the heaviness of tensions.
This power animal invites those who have a connection with it to bring joy and bliss into their lives. Butterflies often have bright colors. By extension, they are associated with aliveness and brightness. The message of this totem animal is to lighten up and add more color to your life. Perhaps it’s time to express yourself more fully and show your colorful personality.
The Butterfly and the world of the Soul
In many traditions around the world, the butterfly is a symbol of the soul or soul world. For example, in Chinese symbology, it can represent immortality. For the Japanese, a white butterfly symbolizes the soul the departed ones.
In Ancient Greece, butterflies represent the psyche or soul, and its attribute of immortality.
Calling the butterfly totem for support
The butterfly is a powerful animal to call when you need support in times of transition, whether it’s at work, in a relationship, or when you’re doing inner work. Great ally during intense periods of personal transformation, it will add ease and lightness to the process.
This power animal is a good inspiration for adding more color into your life and self-expression. Those who have the butterfly as a totem animal may be naturally inclined to express themselves openly, to reflect their colors into their environment.
Dreaming About Butterflies
Dreams are our subconscious minds communicating to us using the language of symbols. The classic interpretation of a butterfly in your dreams is that of transformation. Did the dream start with a caterpillar, cocoon or butterfly? The key to its meaning of transformation depends on where in the life cycle the butterfly is. Associated with the idea of transformation is also rebirth and transmutation of energy. The butterfly can also symbolize freedom, expansion and full self expression. Lastly, the butterfly may symbolize social success.
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Over the past few days 3 different types of butterflies came to me,literally flew right up to me and around.
Story #1
I was coming outside after my chores were finished, and while I was walking to the back and a monarch flew at me. I thought it would just turn around so I stopped and watched, instead it flies almost close enough to touch, after that it flew around me and back the way it was heading.
Crazy. I keep seeing blue butterflies everywhere almost 3,5 a day
I believe in this omen and it sounds powerful. I am not kidding when I tell you this story.
I was going to to use the Washroom, as I unbuckled my belt, a butterfly flew out off of me. It was smallish, black and had a fiery orange underbelly. Upon further inspection, it was a moth. A MOTH. Does that mean I or somebody else is going to die? Haha I joke. But this omen just screamed at me loud and clear. Problem is, there isn’t too much detailed information about moth omens as there is for butterflies. Anybody can try and make some sense out of this?
Ray,
Moths are symbolic of change, too. The blackness to it, I think, means you are in “limbo” right now, a “void”? Major transition coming?
I think the orange underbelly might mean when the change comes it’ll come fast as “Bright as a light.”
Good luck.
Flew out of you, when you unbuckled – is second chakra which emits the color orange, like moth underbelly, when it is open. Black when it is closed or shut off or even blocked. Second chakra is about creativity (birth too, since it is around sexual organs) relationships with others, money and control. The moth symbolized release from some past matter that is healing. I believe you are finally letting go and opening to the idea of moving onward with life.
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I have this thing that I like to do, when my grandad passed away I choose a start in the sky and said that was my grandads star, and if I ever needed him I could look up into the sky, find his star and talk to him. It was and still is my way of dealing with his death. One day I was feeling really low (I battle with depression) so I found the star and started telling granda what was on my mind. When I had finished I was walking down stairs in my house, this was about 11pm and this butterfly appeared out of no where and started fluttering around me. I called my boyfriend, I found it strange that a butterfly would appear at 11pm as we had been home all day and would have spotted it but we didn’t. All the windows and doors had been shut as it was winter and chilly… Anyway I’ll get back to my story.
Me and my boyfriend tried to catch it to let it out and after about 10mins of running around like ejits, the butterfly was no where no be seen. It had completely disappeared. We searched everywhere for it and it had vanished! We never found it or even it’s body (I know they don’t live long) but I’m sure it was my grandad letting me know he’s here and he always will be.
So last Friday after 14 years with the same company I was replaced. They didn’t tell me until the last minute. I was devastated. I went home and my husband and I were having drinks on the deck talking over what we were going to do. A black and orange butterfly appeared. It was late but she flitted around for a long time. The next day butterflies appeared again as I was leaving to go shopping. Butterflies keep appearing in my life since I was terminated. This has to mean something. I’m hoping it’s positive. All things considered I’m not depressed over being terminated. I’m keeping an open mind and hoping that things happen for a reason. Keeping fingers crossed and happy thoughts…
Oh my goodness, this information regarding the butterfly is completely resonating with me at this time. I have been seeing these beauty beings EVERYWHERE lately, both in my meditative states and in my waking state.
I have always sensed that I needed to consciously release a lot of negativity, and so after doing much inner work I constantly find myself laughing, much more forgiving, and much more open. I am also beginning to resonate with creative solutions to problems that I had never considered before. I am feeling more blissful and more in tune with nature. I can definitely say that I have experienced major internal transformations this year. I even decided to take a giant leap in making a decision to take a leave of absence and pursue and MBA overseas. The insight I keep receiving is that I just need to lay the groundwork for this to happen, and the Universe will handle the rest. And lately, I’ve been running into so many people with awesome advice on how to make this vision a reality. It truly is beautiful, what opening ourselves up to the universal energies of lightness, abundance, and creativity can do for us!
I also see butterflies everywhere and I made quantum leap transformation the last 8 months!! My intuition led me to many books about the law of attraction and the best of them are,from Abraham Hicks :”ask and it is given” and “money and the law of attraction”.
I just mention them, in case you need them and such…
Have a lovely new life, Dear!
My story and I want to share it.
I came under the spell of butterflies in the beginning of 2013 when I saw the blue butterfly in Costa Rica. When I left for my next trip to South America in November 2013 I signed the emails to my friend Greet with “the butterfly”, I don’t know why, but I did. But I never thought about this anymore until today and what had happened to me the last weeks!!
About a month ago, I live in Chile since the end of December last year (a complete change of my life), I signed the emails to my friend again with “the butterfly”, automatically. Strange, as this was all gone for months. Last week I was with my friends for diner and on a certain moment she is talking about having a tattoo. And she also shows me one of… yes, a butterfly, and I was lost. I already have two small tattoos, but this one I really wanted. This were 8 butterflies beneath each other, but I mostly liked the second one. And yes, I want it on my left shoulder, the site I know I receive my energy through. And today is the top of my story: This morning a friend of mine had put a nice image on my timeline on FB, yes… Butterflies, and I reacted to her: That’s ME!! I don’t know what happened to me, but this was just a beginning!! As the weather was beautiful I was reading the rest of the second of three books by Harlan Coben on my balcony. And when I was reading the last pages, I thought I fell to the ground, as now I understood this was about a “Butterfly organization”. So tonight searching the web, I came to this site and while I was writing this story, I remembered myself that last week, when I was going into my bedroom, a butterfly had been in and flew outside when I came in. This is not a story to put aside. I know there’s more, but what?? Is there someone who wants to tell me something?? This is no coincidence anymore!!
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Thank you for this website. My husband of 40 years died a little over 2 years ago. Still suffering from his absence and the longest worst winter ever, I have been crying non-stop. The cold finally released it fridged fingers for one day and I took my dog for a walk. I was surprised to see a small orange butterfly hovering at my feet since it was still too early for her to be out. But there she was! When I got home I did a search for small orange butterfly and your page came up. I will try to hold this message in my heart and try to let the transformation and joy happen.
I understand how you feel. My mom passed away in Dec 2013, when I bought my new house 2 streets over from my old house where i was taking care of my mom i noticed a white butterfly greet me outside my house. Never have i ever been greeted by one. Before winter came last year 2014 there was one around my yard and now in 2015 the white butterfly greets me again. I really think it’s a symbol of my mom close by. I symbolize it as her spirit around me.
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I have been going through a rough 12 months, but things are looking up For me now, but I am still stressed and as a result caused me to start with depression. I still need to get things straight in my life, which I am desperate to sort out.
Yesterday I had a visit from a very colourful Butterfly what does this mean?. A I would love to find out. I hope someone can give me the answer to this.