Do you believe that butterflies can be a message sent from above?

[Sugarsugarhoney]

I’m still very upset about the loss of my beautiful cat who tragically died two weeks ago, and maybe I’m ‘looking’ for signs that she’s ok, if there is hopefully somewhere everyone including our pets go to after leaving this World.

We bought dcats ashes home the other day, and I hung a beautiful sun catcher up (with my pets name and a rainbow bridge on it that I’d ordered) just over our patio doors where she used to go in and out of. The very next day a beautiful large red admiral butterfly landed right near to the sun catcher, and stayed there for a couple of minutes, gently flapping it’s wings before leaving, and now I honestly wonder if it was indeed a sign from someone to say my cats alright where she is.

I know many might not believe in ‘messages’ and I admit I’ve always been sceptical. However, I’ve never seen a butterfly land where it did before (or stay for the length of time that it did), and so although it could possibly be a coincidence, when I told my friend she insisted it was a sign. Has anyone else had the same kind of ‘visit’ from beautiful butterflies?

💕💐 I like to think that a butterfly landing on someone is a message.

Hi Sugarsugarhoney, I don't mean to hijack your thread but there's another one going at the moment titled 'To want to believe in life after death'. You might find it interesting, it's on a similar theme. The server's been down this morning so there hasn't been much activity.

I hope in time you can remember fondly the love and pleasure your cat gave you and your family.

I am not woo at all.

and yet…!

FIL passed away unexpectedly last autumn. I was looking in our garden a week or so after he passed and I saw a red cardinal. They are said to be a sign. So I told DH about it. And then later that day I was looking in the same spot and a white feather floated down in front of me. And I felt like it was a sign from FIL to say, don’t forget about your own grief.

then friday we moved into a new house. And the first morning here I was lying in bed and I heard a cardinal singing in the back garden. And then I looked out of my window and a white feather floated down.

I told DH and I said it’s like FIL is trolling me!! Because I don’t believe in signs! But it was very moving and made me think of him and our loved ones and that’s what it’s all about maybe.

Not butterflies, but when my two daschunds crossed the rainbow bridge within a year of each other, not long after, we had two wood pigeons come and live in the trees in the garden. They are there every day, and they're the only birds that my other dog (who grew up with the Doxies) doesn't chase. They come right up to him and he just sits there watching them.
I'd like to think it's my little guys come back to keep an eye on us all. So I do believe there are little signs

@Sugarsugarhoney My DF grew up in the north, but had lived in the south ever since 18. The town in the north where he went to school is also a place that he liked to return to visit. I was there with my DM around a year after his death (first time we had visited since losing him) and as I was getting DS out of the car, a BEAUTIFUL and very large butterfly was right next to me resting on the car - I didn’t see it fly there as I had my head poked in the car. I think it was a Peacock but I’m no butterfly expert, it may have also been a red admiral. I really do think it was a sign (I am not sure woo normally) but we were in a town and I’ve not seen such a beautiful butterfly ever, let alone in that town, let alone perched on the car when there were people’s gardens with hedges etc which would be more suitable. I turned to my DM and said: “It’s dad”. I carried on sorting out DS - head in car and when I looked again the butterfly had gone. Whenever I am in the north and I see a butterfly I think of him - sometimes when I’m alone and walking with DS across fields I see white butterflies around us but I know they are common so not sure what to think!

No.

Having said that, I still often feel the unmistakable sensation of a cat moving around on the foot of my bed.

Thank you I’ll take a look at that one 🙂

Ah thank you, she was a cat in a million and I was literally her slave! I’ll always miss her but I’m glad she lived her best life with us, and I knew she was a very happy cat 🙂

That must’ve given you so much comfort ❤️ reading other people’s posts does make me sway more to believing that we do indeed receive little signs that our loved ones are ok 💐

It doesn't actually matter whether butterflies are symbolic of something else. What matters is that you can find comfort in them.

After reading other people’s stories, as well as your lovely experience, I do think there surely has to be something there, as some things can’t always be pure coincidences. You say your dog would chase other birds, so for some reason he does seem to have a ‘connection’ with the pigeons, and they could well be meant to let you know your little guys are still around you 💕

You see, that’s why I am more of the opinion that we do receive signs now, as, just like in your case, it was unusual for a butterfly to make its presence known in the way it did, I hope you too found comfort 💐

I too have sometimes felt like my dog (who passed years ago) has jumped on my legs on the bed, and if you’ve felt like your cat was around, then maybe he/she was! 🙂

I definitely found comfort in my butterfly visit 💕

It funny you should mention butterflies as we have been getting quite a lot recently flying into our lounge, only the other day we had a beautiful one fly in, they quite often fly in and then out and then in again, I said to my dh that maybe its the hot weather bringing them inside as we’ve never had that before and one day it was getting ridiculous how many kept flying in, its not like we have any plants near the doors either.

I too wondered if it was a sign from my dear parents as both dh and myself have a difficult decision that we need to make at some point and its not one that I’m relishing, so hopefully its a sign telling us that everything will be alright with the decision we’ll make.

I really do hope these little signs are from loved ones who have crossed over.
It’s not a butterfly tale but I have a silk heart which hangs on my bed. It’s around 34 years old. My Nan got it for me about 2 years before she passed away. It has rose buds inside and it used to smell very strongly of roses. Obviously the scent has faded to nothing now but every few months, I will be sitting, reading in bed and I will get a huge wave of rose scent whiffed past me, I am convinced it’s my lovely nan letting me know she’s still here in spirit.
My beloved dog is terminally ill. I am devastated at the thought of losing him but whisper in his ear all the time that when he’s ready to go could be come back to me every now and then, leave a little sign he’s still with me. I really hope he does.

I don't believe in any "signs from above", but If it brings you a sense of comfort after your loss OP then that's all to the good.

I don't believe in signs, but I know that when my sister died many years ago, despite my scepticism, I was still on high alert for anything that would give me comfort. I think I dwelt a little bit longer on, and looked a little bit more intensely at the world around me and that in itself was a wonderful affirmation of life.

I'm so sorry about your cat

I have a few things since my dad died 2 years ago. One is when someone mentions "number x" or asks a question about "number x" because we had a special thing about this number.

The other is when I see a double rainbow. This is because soon after he died my sister and I were spending some time together and as we were driving up the motorway there was a rainbow on each side. One for each daughter I felt.