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The dragonfly is in this picture because I’ve been thinking about transformation, how each stage of life is a death and rebirth.  And how we go through labor pains giving birth to the next stage and birth canal fear as  we pass from one stage into the next.   Can the dragonfly nymph in the water imagine the dragonfly adult soaring overhead?

The stories we tell ourselves are the water we swim in.  Can you imagine stepping out of the water and soaring into the sky?

In Celtic mythology, the dragonfly is often the transitional home of the soul between one life and the next. Its flight and aerial acrobatics capture our attention and inspire our hearts.Dragonflies inhabitant water, but with maturity, learn to fly while staying close to the water. Those with dragonfly affinities may have had emotional and passionate early years, but as they get older, they achieve balance with mental clarity and control.

The dragonfly is associated with color magic, mysticism and illusion. To some Native American tribes they are connected with water and Springtime, fertility, and renewal. (link here)

Let’s face it.  We humans get really comfortable with certain stages of our life.  Even when that stage begins to chafe and itch, we are quite capable of using our amazing analytical powers to convince ourselves that here is where we belong.  Here is where we are happiest.  What we really mean is that here is where we know the outcomes of actions and reactions.  Here is where we believe we have control in a chaotic world.  Control is an illusion.  Release it. 

Go ahead.  Color outside the lines.

Wylde Women’s Wisdom

What would you die for?  Because the truth is sooner or later we all are going to die, and you are moving toward that one day at a time.  The way you spend each day of the time you have is what you are willing to die for.  Tammy Vitale

The heart knows.  There’s nothing to choose.  Just something to set loose….The vagueness will clear when you decide to embrace whatever you hear…You came with instincts and imperatives and they will thrust through the mud and bud in their own glad season.  It’s not your answers or ideas that you need to worry about.  It’s your resistance to your ideas, any immediate reaction to choke the strange and uncomfortable…the heart always knows.  You have everything you need.  Tama Kieves This Time I Dance