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.
Access Higher Guidance With Shamanic Journeying
We invite you to tap into your own intuitive gifts to manifest positive outcomes for yourself and others with a free virtual online event led by one of the most renowned teachers in shamanism, Sandra Ingerman. In The Healing Power of Shamanic Journeying online event, you’ll discover how to:- Harness the power of ceremony can create healing and positive change in your life and the lives of those around you.
- Bring the practice of one of the most ancient practice in the world into your modern-day life to improve every aspect of yourself: emotionally, mentally and physically.
- How to seek guidance and support through shamanic journeying.
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.
Your Eerie Moon Forecast For Today
I've got something special for you today. It’s more influential than your star sign and contains the most precise and accurate guidance system you’ll ever get. I'm talking about your Moon Sign and Moon Phase! Yes -- the sign and phase of the moon at the exact moment of your birth reveal more about you than you could possibly imagine. Together they influence your strengths and passions...and reveal your potential for abundance, love, and prosperity. >> Get your free personalized video Moon Reading here.Is The Butterfly Your Spirit Animal?
Find out now with the new Spirit Animal Quiz. This free online quiz will help you find your spirit animal the easy way.
The fuck? I’m not a fucking fragile butterfly, I want to be a wolf or something wild and strong and great. I’m out
I took quiz twice and got owl and then butterfly; they both represent transformation and change. The butterfly resonated as I just moved and have been feeling heavy.
I have always loved both ?
Can i not be a butterfly?
fair enough, but a bit girly, make it a fire breathing butterfly and I might go along ?
LOL A fire breathing dragon butterfly :)
I agree with above comment on the area of life one is in as to the totem guide present at the moment. The butterfly perfectly represents my life right now and my desire to achieve transformation, in career, in my heart, etc. It also is an accurate description of my connection to how I am in the world. I, too, have had other totems, or thought I did. This one is the closest in meaning thus far. I’m thinking a tattoo to remind myself might be in order…. ?
I was cleaning the house and I found such a beautiful dark dead green butterfly on the floor. Actually the color is mixed and on both shoulders there’s 2 for that when u look at it. It looks like an eyes. AND I touch it and seems so different compare to other butterfly that when I touch it the color or pollen from their wings starts to come off,this one is not?What does this mean? I wanted to keep it or frame it.
This one is called a lunar moth the they are predominately out at night but attracted to lights around your home. With this you can search more to discover how this applies to your life.
Hi Josie look up Luna Moth if that is it they are rare to find. They do not last very long and are one of my favorites. Handle it very carefully if you want to keep it to frame.
The color coming off is because it is dead. The body/wings are starting to decompose.
If the Luna is not the one you found then Google moths or butterflies and look at the different pictures you may find one that is similar to it. :)
This is so me….
I’ve taken a few of these quizzes. And I got a different animal each time, ranging from the butterfly to the whale. I understand that certain questions determine certain outcomes (and by no means were the quizzes the exact same) but how can one obtain 4 different animals with similar descriptions?
hey, its where you are currently in you life. Your current state of spirit. Changes in your life? this may have in influence. What mood where you in when you took the test.
Hi Moe, You can have more than one animal totem in your life. You can meditate on the predominate one to come to you. I feel that the ones that you are most drawn to can be your totems. I think the quizzes only direct and are not really that specific. It is like the astrological signs in the newspaper they hit on a lot of general familiar things with a lot of people.
Hello :)
Nice
Very accurate
Yes, very accurate
Hello out there
When I first saw the words “your spirit animal is a butterfly!” I was like, uh, I think I might need to take this test again, cause, a butterfly? Seriously? But when I read the whole of what it means to be a butterfly, I was like, “Oh, okay. Yeah. This is me.”