For years my practice has been to ask a different animal each month to work with me. This is a fun thing to do, I learn more about the animal and I get to see life through that animal’s eyes. Doing this I sometimes feel like Wart (the young King Arthur) in The Sword in the Stone when Merlyn changed him into the different animals.
Last month Lion and I worked together, this month it’s Grasshopper.
So, what are the gems of wisdom I hope to glean from Grasshopper this month? Here’s a brief message Grasshopper shared with me the other day:
“Come leap with me. I show you fields of happiness, fields of abundance. See? We all hop up and down because of our joy in who we are. See? We are provided for. See? Life is good. See? See all that you can see?
“Don’t be stuck in one place, leap forward into the next field of happiness life has in store for you. See? You can only move forward, not back. See? See? You can stay stuck if you want, but you can’t move back. See? See?
“Leap into faith, leap into happiness, leap into bounds of glory. Leap away. See? See?”
Even with all his enthusiasm, Grasshopper is not asking that I leap forward blindly, but that I use discernment. It has not been my experience that the animals expect us to use their words of wisdom indiscriminately, but judiciously. If I leap without discernment, I might find:
- I’m leaping into the wrong field.
- I’m expending energy leaping in the same field, leaving me no energy to leap into the next field.
- I may not be leaping in my own rhythm, but in someone else’s rhythm.
- I may leap away from a field where I still need to remain.
Would you like to join me working with an animal a month? I hope so! Leave your comments on what your animal of the month has to say to you.
Harmony,
Janet Roper
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When I was going through a very fast-paced exciting year back in 2003, grasshoppers showed up all around me. There was one particular one, in my office, in the middle of downtown. I would come to my office and he would be on the top of the door frame.
For about 5 days, I carefully took him to various windows in the building, giving him the chance to get outside where he could live a more “grasshoppery” life. Every day when I came back, he had returned to the door of my office. On at least one day, when I put him at an open window and went back to my office, I went to the bathroom later only to find him standing on the carpet outside my office door, already back.
A week or so later I found him lying on the bathroom floor, dead. It was as though he gave me my message, and his job was done. I still have his little body, perfectly preserved, in a golden box I keep on my little altar table. He represented a big shift for me, and a validation about my writing that I needed.
Hi billie,
That’s a beautiful story, thanks for sharing! I love the way you honored that particular grasshopper, offering him a more ‘grasshoppery’ life, and now keeping him on your altar.
Harmony,
Janet
How awesome and timely that you bring Grasshopper to me now, Janet. :0) Thanks! It’s winter here in CO and the Grasshoppers are not readily available to share their wonderment in the physical.
I LOVE Grasshoppers…their energy, their color, what they represent. Their timing is always impeccable and quite serendipitous. I love that they do not leap backwards…forward movement only, please.
Last summer we were traveling across country following our hearts and opening to the possibility of moving our family again. The trip was for “feeling into” that idea and to receive some clarity on whether or not a move was truly on purpose. Grasshoppers were with us the entire way! In some very uncanny positions and places I might add. We all understood immediately that we were poised to leap and that a move was in our near future…now. JUMP! :0)
Things are still lining up and every now and then I desire a little divine reassurance that we’re still on course. Your Grasshopper post and the energy they exude delivered! Thanks so much.
Peace, Love and Harmony… Debra
Hi Debra,
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment! It’s great to hear that you’re so tuned into Grasshopper and his messages. Good for you!
We all need a little divine reassurance from time to time – I think the animals can help us out with that!
Loved your site, can’t wait to spend more time there and peruse it in luxury.
Harmony,
Janet