{"id":3543,"date":"2014-08-09T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmabytes.net\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2014-08-09T19:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T02:59:56","slug":"the-butterfly-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"The Butterfly Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Butterflies\"<\/a>My faith is found in the moments of synchronicity … the statistically improbable micro-miracles that make you stop and smile with a deep sense of knowing that we are never alone.\u00a0 And in Truth, when we unplug from the mental noise that can often be the constant audio stream of our usual existence we begin to experience more of the happenstance … the happiness<\/em> of our true nature.<\/p>\n

When its not toxic hot outside and my body can withstand standing for a little bit, my boyfriend and I take a little walk around the perimeter of our home.\u00a0 There is almost always something in bloom that I can nibble on, at the moment the Brown Turkey Figs<\/a> are ripe and rife, but my favorite tree is our Jujube.\u00a0 I <\/a>love the small crab apple size fruit and the mild flavor feels soothing to my palate though that may be the anxiolytic properties of this rare Asian date.\u00a0 Whatever it is, I am deeply grateful for the weeks the Jujube has ripe fruit.\u00a0 We actually have two Jujube trees on our property.\u00a0 One on the East side of the house and one in a small nook in the south west end of our yard just behind the fence where our koi pond is secluded.\u00a0 The area is small, perhaps 9 x 9 ft. and is hidden by juniper trees and two large pink Hibiscus<\/a> shrubs that are well over six feet tall.\u00a0 Inside the small lot is a lemon and\u00a0 orange tree along with my happy Jujube.<\/p>\n

I had just picked a small green jujube yesterday afternoon when a yellow and black swallowtail butterfly<\/a> caught my eye.\u00a0 She floated down into this little no-man’s land and was gliding ever so slowly between the branches.\u00a0 I stood very still and watched her for a long while.\u00a0 She seemed to be flying in slow motion.\u00a0 Even in the moment I knew it was Grace personified.<\/p>\n

My boyfriend joined me and we both watched the\u00a0papillon glide through the low limbs.\u00a0 She seemed to be eating small gnats, if butterflies even do eat bugs, I don’t know.\u00a0 It was just such a magical moment.\u00a0 After a little while, when she was certain she had our full attention, she flew low and near the corner wall of the ally behind our house and slowly floated up and away.It was then that we noticed a rather large washed out hole in the ground just under her flight path.\u00a0 It was an odd and worrisome hole because it looked like some kind of small sink hole and at first blush we didn’t know what could have created it.The redneck got a small spade and dug around a bit and quickly uncovered the rim of a very old tree.\u00a0 They must have cut an old growth tree down decades ago and left the trunk underground.\u00a0 Over time the roots had rotted away and some of the boroughs it left were almost three feet deep.\u00a0 My man traced one of the sprinkler lines and noticed that there was a very slow leak (faulty solenoid) that wasn’t quiet shutting off.\u00a0 He explained to me that the slow drip had washed away some of the decay revealing the underground small cavern. Had it not been for the butterfly beacon we would not have noticed our plumbing problem.<\/p>\n

The Butterfly Effec<\/a>t explains how small events can impact our future, indeed the animal shaman wisdom of the butterfly reminds us of the power of the whirlwind,transmutation and magick<\/em>.\u00a0 And it is<\/strong><\/em> a magical moment that brings us to the fully awakened state … when we can see what is right under our feet instead of tripping over our untidy mental shoelace as we sleepwalk through the daze. Was the butterfly a Paraclete<\/a>, coincidence or Carbonara Effect<\/a>?\u00a0 Does it matter in the end that we know something for certain, or that we Believe it is so in our heart?\u00a0 As I bite into the thick skin of the jujube and taste the sweet fruit I am simply grateful that the tree lives in my garden and on the good days I remember who I AM.\"swallowtail\"<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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