Blessings Darlings!
A couple of weeks back I blogged about how the air in my land base is full of bats, moths, and butterflies, normal for this time of year. That said - all these critters are well-known to be psychopomps, magical critters that help you travel between the worlds. Clearly, not every moth and butterfly in your area isn't there for your personal spiritual/magical service. 99.9% of them are NOT 'all about you'. That's true even if your astrological sun sign is Leo. IJS.
That said - one in 1000 probably IS 'all about you'. So today as I was sitting outside, having a cigarette and thinking about the post I was planning on creating about psychopomps - getting some serious attention from a gorgeous red spotted blue swallowtail was the equivalent of being asked out on a date to do some traveling with ker tonight. We chatted so I know what I'm supposed to do to prepare, I left ker an offering (mashed ripe peaches, heavy with juice - I know this species. Actually if I was giving the offering to a 'normal' member of the species, it would be even better had the fruit been a tad ... uh ... fermented. They REALLY like that. But in the case of psychopomps the extra 'spirit' is redundant.)
In many minds, psychopomps are associated only with leading spirits after death. That's certainly a psychopomp role, but it is far from the only role they take. They are there at births (often with the Ancestors riding them, as in the case of dragonflies in Japan.) They are there at soul retrievals. They can be sent as transportation for your spirit by another spirit that is summoning YOU (which can be a scary thing.) And they can (as in this case) be a spirit helper to a Practitioner heading to the Otherworlds.
At any rate - I've a date tonight to go soaring off with a Psychopomp. See you later!
Frondly, Fern
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