The Purple Butterfly

The Purple Butterfly is an emblem of survival and courage.

She is always in the pursuit of a higher level of spirituality.

She is a manifestation of rebirth and healing, especially from the agony and wounds of trauma.

She serves as a reminder to have patience and keep faith.

The Purple Butterfly also represents the desire to be free — free from the chains of the physical world that hold her down.

Free from all physicality. After all, the metaphysical is where she wants to be.

She refuses to be bound. She refuses to be confined.

She will never belong to anyone.

If you love her, you need to release her because she can’t ever be yours. And the tighter you hold her between your palms, the faster you destroy her, with each suffocating moment.

She doesn’t want you to adore her within your palm, or admire her under glass.

She’d rather die than remain caged. But death, too, is a freedom from a cage — the cage of mortality and of the finite world. And she knows that there exists a world where everything is endless and where the light is infinite.

Because once upon a time, she was in a cocoon, sheltered and protected in the dark. And when she emerged from that cocoon, she was transformed and vowed never to go back into the darkness.

For the Purple Butterfly to flourish, the world needs to open up its hands and set her free. For she was never meant to stay forever in this world.

I am the Purple Butterfly.