Its time to take a leap!
Our family has been going through the flow of potential significant change in our lives. At the same time grasshoppers have been showing up for our family in numerous ways recently and we decided to take a look at the symbology of the grasshopper.
In china grasshoppers are symbols of good luck and abundance. As the name implies grasshoppers move by leaping and hopping. If you have grasshoppers showing up in your life there is about to be a new leap forward, one that may carry you beyond the current flow in your life.
Grasshoppers have an instinct for finding the sunny places, being in the warmth and the light and knowing when to make their leaps. Trust your own instincts and rhythms and know that what works for others may not necessarily work for you.
Listen to your own inner voice to know when to make your moves in any area of your life. Grasshoppers possess a tympanic organ on their front legs. As they breathe this organ is activated. By moving the legs in different directions they are able to locate a sound’s source. This connection between sensing sounds and the legs is highly significant. Trust your inner voice.
People with grasshopper totems have an uncanny ability to leap into successful ventures. This becomes even more true when they learn to listen to that inner voice and follow their instincts. Grasshopper people learn to make new leaps. Grasshoppers always leap forward or up. There is no leaping backwards.
We are looking forward to enriching and enlightening new leaps in the coming days and months. How about you?
July 31, 2009 at 8:29 am
Love it!
I have a set of Animal tarot cards, and have often thought of them the same way, choosing cards with animals that provide this kind of inspiration. There’s not a grasshopper in there, but should be.
You just made me realize, though, that this week, I was recovering from a bout of writing paralysis…and we found an injured bird in the road the other night. We picked him up, brought him home, got him to people who would help him fly again.
And I managed to get back to my writing over the following three days.
Totems, I think, bring us messages in a lot of ways.
Sam