It is in the Spirit of Butterfly, the Delicate Transformer, (and in particular the Monarch and the color orange as well as green), that I share the story and continuing insights.
Who knew that when I sat to create a SoulCollage� card on May 22nd, 2011, that the day would become filled with butterflies? As I sat on my back sun porch on that beautiful sunny day, scissors cutting paper wings I was sifting and sorting many things in my mind and heart. I was ready for and needed change. Today there was a staff meeting scheduled where I work and I just could not make myself go.
I knew there was a butterfly show happening at the Krohn Conservatory very near where I live. The Butterfly show takes place every year and is a magical event where hundreds of butterflies fly loose within a greenhouse type structure dotting the landscape with glorious bursts of color.
And so I went to the Butterfly show because this is what my soul needed most; to be nourished in this way. It felt very right. In retrospect it was a pivotal day in my life when I began to follow without guilt the dictates of my Heart and thus began a series of major shifts and transformations that continue. It was time.
Butterfly is a delicate and graceful transformer who has assisted me in empowering myself to be the change; to continually become a truer version of myself. I am inspired by this beautiful creature to live in the moment with Joy and to honor with grace the many cycles of Life. Once entering the Butterfly Path and Promise of Creative Indwelling there is no turning back.
In mid August, 2012, I took a 6 month leave of absence from my job. At that point I didn't know whether I'd return, only that I needed the space to reevaluate my life and direction as well as physically rest and rejuvenate. During that time I traveled to Santa Fe to take Level 2 Aura-Soma training with a friend and then stayed in beautiful Sedona Arizona for a month. The energy there (to me) is amazing and I felt so clear upon returning about what I needed to do...clear as a bell...
I'm going to jump ahead in time a little now, then circle back around to connect the dots and the sequence of events...
On April 28, 2013, my card "Nature Lover Self" and accompanying writing was sent out on Daily Oasis, a beautiful mailing that features a SoulCollage� card each day from people all over the world.
At 1 PM the very same day (April 28), fellow SoulCollage� facilitators and friends were to arrive at my home for a SoulCollage� and Aura-Soma gathering, sharing in the experience of how the systems (and bodies of wisdom/knowledge) can work together to assist in shedding further light for individuals and groups.
We opened the Circle and I had planned on sharing a particular card as example to begin. Yet spontaneously and prompted by the synchronicity of the day, I chose the card featured on Daily Oasis as example. #44, Nature Lover Self. It's actually a fine card for a color illustration because it primarily features one bottle, #82, Calypso, also linked with the Return Journey of the Emperor in their system of Tarot correspondences.
Although I saw and understood the connection with my card, its 'story' and this bottle in a variety of ways, sharing about it in this circle opened it up for me even more. I was thrilled that as I spoke with imagery in hand the eyes of those present were alight with signs of recognition and understanding.
Amazing questions were asked by some in attendance that shed more light on the card and colors for me as well. Each person present had the opportunity that day to tell color stories with their cards -and the cards and stories came to life. All of us were enriched by the experience.
B82 is a combination of orange and green and has an affirmation that really got my attention when I read it. "I am open to the possibility of making a new decision that will bring clarity to a new direction".
And according to the system of Aura-Soma, this bottles Keynote is:
Insight revealed as we make space for ourselves. The revelation of the deepest joy coming from the Heart (taken from the Aura-Soma Sourcebook by Mike Booth with Carol McKnight)
Indeed the card and my process surrounding it culminated in a decision to attend the butterfly show that day in May 2011 rather than the staff meeting. That decision was the beginning of a process wherein I seriously re-evaluated my life direction, took a 6 month leave of absence from my job, and at 6 months end decided I was not going back.
The process of creating the space that I needed allowed me to let go of the past and the way I'd defined myself and reconnect with what was truly in my Heart at that time.
That bottle B82 is linked with the return Journey of the Emperor in Tarot and my card features a Monarch Butterfly resonated deeply with me as well. The entire process was definitely empowering and I did feel that all was so right!
In Aura-Soma orange is also explained as a color that heals the timeline. The Orange Butterfly felt symbolic of that, where guilt at the prospect of walking away from a job that had given me so much was replaced with the Joy of discovering and following a path of Heart! (Joy and Bliss, other keywords for orange)
I've realized since that the colors of the landscape in Sedona are reminiscent of B82 as well ...amazing! Green is a Heart color and is also about Space, creating it for ourselves and allowing it for others...in our search for truth and deep connection on and to Earth
And speaking of timelines....
Even more recently I realized anther link with this color bottle. My dear Mom had a photograph of me when I was 19 that she wanted an artist to paint like a portrait. (and one of my brother too!)
In the photograph I was wearing a green sweater (a favorite color of mine) Mom asked the artist when painting that the sweater color be changed to a pumpkin/coral/orange tone to match her d�cor in the room where it would hang.
My teen rebel and one who wanted to be seen as who I really am was so upset at the time at having been altered to match d�cor! And yet how fitting it truly was and is (and so wise from a color and personal passage viewpoint) that I wear and later seek to embody the color/s and qualities that will heal the timeline and birth new energy into the collective.
Just last weekend I shared card #44 and its story again, (this time with the photo/painting mentioned above ) in a group setting. An amazing and exciting insight was shared by a friend that connects with how I am experiencing the evolution of color and daykeepers in my life. She in turn was inspired to look more closely at the colors and their significance in her own life. I hope to share more about this next time....
There are other color connections I've identified and explored and more synchronicities to discover I'm certain. Yet I'll close for now with gratitude for the continuing Journey and for all I've had the opportunity to learn and to share along the way! I hope that my sharing has inspired you in some way and that possibly you'll decide to do some exploring of your own!
Love,
Sarah
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I love and feel called to share about and to weave SoulCollage� with Color and other systems and practices and do so working with individuals as well as groups. If you are interested contact me for details at sarahsnowowl@gmail.com
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Sarah Gallant
