Description
The Mariposa Butterfly embodies change and renewal.
To Native Americans, the butterfly is a symbol of change, joy and color. The exquisite butterfly is considered a miracle of transformation and resurrection.
Our card shows two delicate butterflies with lacy wings facing one another. Give this card for beauty, for love, for transformation, for hope, for joy, for sympathy.
Wing colors vary from card to card, all pretty!
Messages:
- Today a caterpillar, tomorrow a butterfly.
- Hoy una oruga, mañana una mariposa.
- Do not fear change. No tema el cambio.
- “We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.” ~LeeAnn Taylor
- “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” ~Muhammad Ali
- Y justo cuando la Oruga pensó que era su final, se transformó en una Mariposa.
- Behind every beauty, there is pain.
- Butterflies are the heaven sent kisses of an angel.
- Sometimes we have to lose something precious to find something priceless.
- If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
History:
Mariposa County, California is home to Yosemite National Park.
Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly and was named for a phenomenon that left early missionaries to the area awestruck as legions of delicate butterflies alighted by the dozens around them.
Butterfly symbolism:
- Powerful transformation, metamorphosis in your life, personality
- Moving through different life cycles
- Renewal, rebirth
- Lightness of being, playfulness
- Elevation from earthly matters, tuning into emotional or spiritual
- The world of the soul, the psyche
- Finding joy in life and lightness of being.
See also Butterfly Kisses pop up card.
