05/10/2025
I have pulled a card for you from my World Animal Dreaming Oracle deck for your guidance for the week.
The card you received is the Butterfly card.
Butterflies are insects capable of flight thanks to two pairs of large, scaly wings. But before they looked like this, all Butterflies began life as a Caterpillar. When they have grown big enough, Caterpillars ready themselves for their final moult that will see them pupate, or become a chrysalis.
Although it appears from the outside that nothing much is happening, inside the chrysalis an incredible amount of activity is taking place. The Caterpillar is literally changing in every way. In truth, its anatomy is being chemically pulled apart and put back together into the form we know to be the Butterfly!
The Butterfly has fluttered by your cards today because you are being
prepared for a magickal transformation, a chance to make sense of what may have been a traumatic and potentially ‘painful’ period of necessary change.
Butterfly offers new life and the chance to transform on all levels, to become a stronger, prouder person who’s more willing to trust. As the Butterfly moves from Caterpillar to Butterfly, it shows trust in its ability to grow and adapt.
The Caterpillar is slow and cumbersome, symbolic of how we view ourselves as we struggle to come to terms with new information and to adapt to what this new information demands of us. And then we find ourselves going within, contemplating and sifting through all that we have learned. As the Caterpillar becomes the chrysalis and readies to metamorphose, we begin to internalise our newfound wisdom. We examine and question, file and discard.
By the time the Caterpillar decides to emerge as the Butterfly, we’re also ready to present our newfound wings and our need share our wisdom and, from a place of experience, enhance the lives of others. The sight of the Butterfly breaking free of its chrysalis is a re-enactment of rebirth. As such, the Butterfly is a powerful symbol for anyone contemplating change or who is in the midst of major transformation.
