Why Do I Love the Dragonfly?

Bugs and I have a largely innocuous relationship, although I am stereotypically squeamish around many of them. They go about their assigned and perfected jobs in the ecosystem, staying outside my radar until I scratch a mosquito bite, step in an ant mound, or clear a splat from my Florida windshield.

I generally don’t ponder the symbolism behind the prolific love bug or cock roach or question their mystical place in our spiritual evolution. I do however, think about one particular bug, or insect to be taxonomically correct, the dragonfly.

This winged beauty is unique, an impression bolstered by the vast, ancient and intercontinental myths spun about the dragonfly, a visitor who sometimes brashly pays me a visit in my home office when my porch door stays open. My dog close enough to pounce, the dragonfly still courageously hovers near me then lands softly and patiently on my window curtain, as if to carry a message to me when I’m ready to receive.

Read more about this remarkable (I think) insect....what do dragonflies SYMBOLIZE?

Btw, I just went on a girls weekend and walking through my friend's parking garage at her condo I saw an expired dragonfly lying on the ground. I know it's just a dead bug, but now to me, it means more. It's a sign to stop and think about living in the moment (dragonflies have a very, very short life span although their development stage is very long), of the illusory nature of life and to focus on the reality we WANT to live............okay it's a self-indulgent stretch for me to give an insect that much symbolic weight, but our meaning in life is what we ascribe to everything around us.

Why not seek daily symbols that help us connect to that which we call Spirit, to ourselves, to our desires?  I find nature, the organic, living breathing pulse of our earth to offer me a flowing and regular source of connection.

Do you have symbols inside nature you look for during your day?

Laura