Metamorphosis 2020 - by Jude Currivan

Metamorphosis 

Jude Currivan 11th April 2020  

A caterpillar exists to eat. Its aim is to consume as much as possible. When there is
nothing left to devour, evolution forces its isolation into becoming a chrysalis; within
which it dissolves. In the breaking down of its old form, a new form begins to evolve
into a butterfly. One morning, it breaks through the wall of its chrysalis. It waits for its
wings to dry in the warmth of the Sun, and then it flies.

A butterfly exists to pollinate. Its aim is to sip the sweetness of flowers. And as it
does so, it fertilizes life.

We have been a caterpillar species; consuming, not only all that Gaia could spare in
her generosity, but much more. Now cocooned by physical distancing, we can
choose to breakdown who we thought we were. To surrender; not to the will of man,
but to the evolutionary impulse of the Universe.

To dissolve our separated sense of self and co-create imaginal cells of potential;
linking up and lifting up to form organelles of emergence. We can reframe and more
deeply understand, the breakdown and dying of the old and breakthrough and birth
of the new; not as a crisis but as a metamorphosis.
Instead of plunderers we can become pollinators.