What Does The Dragonfly Symbolize?

Nancy McKay
3 min readDec 18, 2019

I love dragonflies. I think they’re beautiful and graceful and I love the transparency of their wings. This is a somewhat recent fascination for me. I know that I was drawn to them because they represent transformation. And, holy shit, there’s some major transformation going on in my life.

A New Day Is Dawning…

Tomorrow is my last day at my corporate job. I’ve been there for nine years, longer than any other job ever. Tuesday will be my first “real” day at my new job — my very own business.

I’ve been working on my business, Amazing Outlook Coaching, part-time for almost a year. I cut back to four days a week at my “day job” last July to help with juggling work, new gig and continued training. It was still too much.

So, I’m rewiring!

Dragonfly Wisdom

The dragonfly symbolizes wisdom, change, transformation, light and adaptability in life. It shows up in people’s lives to remind them that they need to bring a lightness and joy to their life.

The dragonfly is also a symbol of the “realm of emotions” from joy and happiness to melancholy, sadness, anger, jealousy and all of the other emotions. It´s also considered a symbol of transformation because of the way that it grows.

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Nancy McKay
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I am a resilience & recovery expert. My mantra “I didn’t get sober and survive cancer to be miserable” gave me the courage to start a new career at 61.