creatures, instincts
Dreaming of Butterfly
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
The butterfly signifies the soul and a change of state, and foretells a turn for the better after a confined season, the shut thing opening.
Its beauty is brief, and so it warns of fortunes lovely but not lasting, enjoy the good arriving, and do not build the house on it.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The Greeks used one word for butterfly and for soul, psyche, and the dream knows it. A butterfly is transformation completed, what crawled and went dark in the cocoon now moving on its own wings, the Self after the long inward season.
A butterfly that never lands is change without integration, the dreamer flitting from becoming to becoming, afraid that settling means going back in the cocoon. Even wings need a stem to close on.
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