Butterfly
Butterflies often signal transformation already underway — a shift in perspective, a relationship coming into bloom, or creative work finding its wings. Sometimes they arrive in dreams when the soul is ready to stop gripping so tightly, when change feels less like risk and more like relief.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for butterfly, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses, indicates prosperity and fair attainments.
To see them flying about, denotes news from absent friends by letter, or from some one who has seen them. To a young woman, a happy love, culminating in a life union.