My favorite boutique flower shop sells Chrysalis every year......little pots of nature's jewelry and her promise. Each cocoon holds a butterfly in the stage between larva and adult. Housed safely in a celadon green case sealed with several gold "dots", the insect waits, biding it's time, until it is ready to emerge and become what it is destined to be.
When the chrysalis begins to turn black, you know that the process of '"becoming" is nearing its end. Once totally black, the butterfly sheds the cocoon and rests for up to six hours, drying its wings. Until the wings are completely dry, the butterfly can't fly. Patience is required, for to try to fly too soon would mean disaster and death.
In order for the insect to become the butterfly, this glorious home must be utterly destroyed. As with so much in life, in order to transcend to a higher level, there must be a destruction of what came before. From the ashes, emerges the Phoenix. This transformation, whether in the insect world or our own, is often violent, gut-wrenching. But the cocoon no longer serves the butterfly as it once did the insect. There is wisdom in knowing when to move on...to spread one's wings...to fly.
Trust in the process.
Ahhh butterfly. My favorite creature, next to dogs. They both love me & I love them too.
ReplyDeleteI will continue to take pictures to post on FB...maybe it will be yellow, but I'm pretty sure this is a Monarch butterfly chrysalis.
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