Butterfly

In the Language of Mind, a butterfly is transformation completed — a way of thinking that has finished changing into something new. Look at its form and function: a butterfly is not built, it is transformed, the same creature that crawled the ground as a caterpillar, dissolved in the dark of the cocoon, and emerged able to fly. That is exactly how a thought matures in you — an old, earthbound way of being has to break down before a lighter, airborne one can take wing. So when a butterfly drifts through your dream, your subconscious is showing you that an inner change has reached its finished form. Examine where in your waking life you have quietly become a different person than you were, and are only now noticing the wings. Read the variations: a butterfly still wet and unfolding = a transformation just completed, not yet tested in flight; one trapped against a window or caught in a net = a new self you have grown into but won't yet let take wing; a swarm of them = many small changes arriving at once. That is one symbol, read clean — but the garden it crossed, the hand that held it, the light it flew toward are all still speaking. Your subconscious talks to you every night in this exact language; CHITTA is simply where you learn to read the rest of the sentence. Go within, or go without.