Metamorphosis *  evolution * rebirth * transformation * conversion * mid-course correction * remolding * about face * quantum leap * break up with the past * total change * radical * sudden change * realignment * readjustment * turning point ** 

"dramatic change in character or appearance"

"Becoming a butterfly is easy.  Stop doing what you have been doing and start doing what you've always wanted to do!" Stop crawling and start flying.

To become a butterfly, you must first be willing to no longer be a caterpillar, crawling on the ground looking at life from the lowest point of view.  You must be willing to go through the necessary phases in your life to finally bring you out of the cocoon, so that you may spread your wings and soar.  If you find yourself in caterpillar mode, give yourself permission to go to the next level.  Head for the cocoon.  When you are in the cocoon, you are licking your wounds, healing up on the inside, reassessing life and withdrawing from the familiar.  You become a fortifier of your ownself and are no longer looking "outward" for your help, guidance and strength.  You are going inward and feeding off of what has already been there deep down on the inside of you all along.  At first you may not feel like yourself; this is yourself, you are just shedding off what was not authentic to you.  You are dropping baggage, forgiving yourself, forgiving others, strippping away your excuses, calibrating what you have learned so far, creating a map,  seeing a higher vision, feeling the presence of God, on some days feeling nothing at all, on some days, maybe even feeling on the brink, but this is all necessary to become the butterfly you know yourself to be.   You are in flight training.  Slowly you feel an awakening on the inside of you.  Although you are still important, your  new desire is to go out into the world and see what good you can do there.  When the time is right, you will know it in your heart.  You will slowly come out of the cocoon and just like you've been doing it all of your life...your will fly!

And now you have become a butterfly!  Out of the cocoon for evermore!  Your new colors sparkling against the sun.  Life is no longer a struggle for you.  Ease is your new way of living.  You are light and free.  You are beautiful on the inside and outside.  You are ascending to higher heights.  You have an eagle's eye viewpoint of life.  You are creating and pollinating and flying to all of the places you merely thought about years ago.  You had the courage to "come forth" and be the woman you always knew yourself to be!  You are now your authentic self...an original!  There's only one like you in all of the world.