Jessica Carbine Chrysalis Meditation and Response Draft 2

Jessica Carbine

Chrysalis Meditation

Imagine yourself in a beautiful garden a garden you work hard to maintain you tending to all the flowers and plants.

•  Describe the garden, what dose the landscape look like?
• What kind of plants do you keep, do you have any favorites?
• What is the atmosphere of the Garden?
• The Garden represents the things in your life that have shaped you and the attributes that you want to nurture.

You feel yourself growing smaller and smaller your skin becomes ruffled you you feel a sense of change about to come upon you. You stop shrinking and find yourself on the leaf of one of your plants there is a mirror in front of you and you realize you are a caterpillar.

• Describe yourself 
• What plant are you on
• What color are you 
• How do you feel in this new form
• The caterpillar represents you in your current state. It represents the things you dislike in yourself.

You begin to eat and you fill yourself until you feel as though you are about to burst. Your skin begins to feel tight and uncomfortable, you realize it is time to change you can no longer be a caterpillar. You must become something more, so you begin to spin your chrysalis.

• What attributes do you add to your chrysalis that you feel you will need in order to fortify so it can protect you in the coming weeks
• What will you take with you into your transformation
• The chrysalis represents what makes you feel safe and what you want to see in your self 

You are in your chrysalis now describe how you feel

• Are you scared?
• do you feel safe?
• Is it dark?
• This represents how you feel in this transitional period 

Suddenly you can't take it anymore you feel you are done with your change and you burst out of your chrysalis tearing yourself free. The sunlight beats upon you warming you to your new form you are now transformed. Again you are faced with the mirror what do you look like now describe yourself?

• What are the colors that make up your wings?
•  If you a specific butterfly or moth what kind are you?
•  How do you feel now that you are done with your transformation?
• The butterfly or moth represents the kind of person you want to be. 

Holly's Transformation 

Garden 

Mostly roses: Rose is considered a symbol of balance, passion, protection 

 Babies breath: love and joy

Crocuses rejuvenation this and chrysanthemums were also associated with her child hood 

 Violets Innocence and a sense of giving 

Tulips  perfect love, most strongly associated with true love

Chrysanthemums optimism and joy. 

Warm colors like peach, orange, red represents optimism, and passion

A cracked sidewalk with flowers sporting in the path. This represents the breaking in your path to a new path.

Dew and fresh rain

Wind chimes represents love for music

Forest pine trees represents longevity, virtue, and solitude,

Caterpillar

On a tulip block out the sun; perfect love and your powerless to find it.

Green represent new birth and life

Orange Optimism

Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown

scared.

Cold represent lonesomeness

Power less

Guilty about living of the flower and focusing on self growth

it was windy and dark

Soil comforting: Down to earth nature is comforting.

Chrysalis

Love, down to earth peace bravery and courage

Take care of my life and my garden

Health, creativity, ambition, determination

Appreciation for beauty, individuality, strength

Empathy, friendship, passion

Inside

Isolated

uncertaint

The time inside the Chrysalis gave her time for self reflection

Butterfly or Moth

strong and powerful when ripping out of chrysalis  

optimistic about new form

really sunny warm represents acceptance 

black and blue white spots swolow tails black body 

flew high.

Black  is associated with power, elegance maturatey mystery 

Blue  symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence

Whites spots represents spots of purines and light softness

The color blue in a butterfly is often thought to symbolize joy, color or a change in luck. Sometimes a blue butterfly is viewed as a wish granter.

Changes to the meditation 

Keep garden part

Color of cocoon 

Clearer voice and presentation

 Change a bit of the wording 

Don't say you can't take it anymore 

Instead say after a very long in your cocoon you feel as if you have reached your new form and you are ready to break out of your cocoon. 

What plants they ate from 

She liked the over all experience and she felt like she was going on an adventure.