A friend told me that when she first met me she thought of me as a luna moth – this came up because another friend, an artist, wants to paint dragonflies on my walls. Dragonflies symbolize adaptability and luna moths symbolize rebirth. Both winged creatures are symbols of transformation, but oh, if I could be like a luna moth and inhabit its experience just for a day?
The luna moth is an exquisite masterpiece, perfect and mysterious. The luna moth’s downy, dreamy appearance features a snow-white body, pale green wings and startling eyespots and unique tails that keep it safe from predators
What would it be like to come into this world without having to work on improving yourself, without having to heal trauma, without having to learn to love, especially yourself, and without having any obstacles to overcome in order to master being?
What would it feel like to be perfectly formed and gracefully float through air? Staying a short time, but long enough to have made an impact on anyone who sees you.
Would it be boring to exist as a masterpiece? I could think of a perfect day, a perfect meal, a perfect occasion but I cannot imagine being perfect. We are born naturally resourceful, creative and whole according to the life coaching I have received – this means we are born knowing how to struggle. It’s our human condition.
I was born on the run, seven and a half months gestating in my mother’s belly, and my entire family was afraid because Cuba was in the midst of a revolution. A prop plane to the U.S., and I was born into a community that was displaced. The running never stopped – Miami to Managua to San Salvador to Puerto Rico to New Orleans and on and on and on.
Perhaps the luna moth wants to be us, existing in uncertainty and mistakes. Second guessing the next step but taking it anyway. Yearning for something that may not even be real. Having the ability to disguise how we look, feel and act.
Or maybe a luna moth is content with its own perfection. Happy to be instead of becoming.