Adelita Chirino has a great blog about dreams and dreaming. She recently posted a powerful story about spirit communication through a luna moth that she’s allowing us to repost.
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My husband’s younger brother, Charlie, died unexpectedly last week. While Jim was down south taking care of the funeral arrangements with his sisters, he was standing outside the hotel and saw a luna moth on the tree. Luna moths are pretty rare sightings, as far as I can tell. They are the most lovely creatures of the night.
When he called and told me about the luna moth, he also sent me the picture he took of it. We talked about how maybe it was Charlie visiting.
During a dream workshop I was leading recently, one of the participants told me a story of how her grandmother always said she wanted to transform to a butterfly when she died. This makes good sense as butterfly is a classic symbol of the transformation of the soul in death because of the caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly existence they have. The Greek word we chose as the name of our video production company, Psyche, means soul and butterfly. Well, at her grandmother’s funeral, at the gravesite, her sister nudged her and pointed out a beautiful butterfly flying near the grave and said, “Here’s Gram.”
Today walking on the beach, trying to be present and open to the beauty around me and not stuck in the jabberwocky of thoughts in my head, I caught snatches of a conversation between a couple headed the other way. As they approached me, I heard the woman “funeral” and “ladybug.” Then as we intersected, I heard her say, “How does a lady bug show up in the car when we’re driving down 95?” He says: “Do you think it’s symbolic…?”
I felt that thrill of recognition, three’s a charm. Three times in a row, someone is comforted by the appearance of a beautiful butterfly or insect at the very moment when it counts, after experiencing the loss of a dear loved one. Maybe because insects have such short little life spans, the departed get to speak their comfort through them and then move on, leaving that beautiful image for their loved ones to share forevermore.
Wow! I love these stories; psyche/soul/butterfly transformation seems to be a popular gift from loved ones who’ve cross over to those of us needing their comfort. Thanks for reinforcing that for me, Trish.
And thanks for letting us post it!
Found that link that specializes in stories about butterflies and those who are in spirit:
https://www.butterflywebsite.com/discover/stories08.cfm
Ok, found a link to the website that specializes in synchronicity stories about butterflies and people who have died:
https://www.butterflywebsite.com/discover/stories08.cfm
Butterflies really are amazing creatures!
Don’t know how your comments ended up in trash, Lauren. Sorry!
Lovely story!
Wayne Dyer recounted a famous story about spirit communication and a butterfly:
https://www.drwaynedyer.com/articles/inspiration-excerpt
I know there are many, many stories of butterflies as spirit messengers. In fact, I think the word for Butterfly in ancient Greek is the same word as the word for Soul………..
Thanks for the link, Lauren. I remember your experience with a butterfly!
I actually won tickets to see Wayne Dyer speak live in my hometown Brisbane years ago from a Brisbane newspaper that covers over a million readers (there was only one double pass to give away…so what were the odds on that one) and took my father-in-law,as Deepak Chopra (John was a big fan of Deepak) was on the same show along with Doreen Virtue (the angel lady) .
These tickets were valued at $350 each.
The funny thing is looking back now that John has passed on,is my mother-in-law had a psychic reading from a psychic recommended to her by a friend of hers,which was pretty spot on and gave her a lot of comfort at the time (I listened to her session on the CD that was given to her by the psychic) and the psychic turned out to be trained in the Doreen Virtue method and even used her angel cards for the reading,I think.
The funny thing is neither of us was into the Doreen Virtue material on the day and just saw it as a talk we had to sit through.
Great story. As I have written previously my best friend of 30+ years died and at his funeral a butterfly settled on his coffin and was carried up the aisle of the church. His wife said to the vicar, “I told you he loved animals.”
There’s also a story of how Ricky Tomlinson (a British character actor) believes his son visited him as a butterfly. See here.
I love that story about the butterfly at your friend’s funeral, Mike.
The story behind his song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOsydt9gWD0
” Pete murray’s best friend got married to this lady and three days after the wedding she got diagnosed with severe cancer and died within six months. Just before she was about to die she said to her husband I am going to reincarnate to a butterfly and i’ll visit you every single day. About a week after she died Pete and all his friends including his best friend were sitting around in someone’s garden at night. the next minute this butterfly went and sat on the best friends shoulder it flapped it’s wings. it then circled around and sat on every person’s shoulder and then went back to the best friend.”
https://masey.co/2004/08/pete-murray-goosebumps/
Wow, Daz. That may be one of the best spirit communication stories yet!
Pete Murray is one of the singers I wrote about who raced in the Billy cart derby,who I didn’t see race because I went home about half an hour before a celebrity race I knew nothing about on the day.Needless to say I’m still kicking myself over this,as Pete is one of my favourite singers .
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/free-pete-murray.html
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/life-is-journeynot-destination.html
I remember that post.