Michaelmas 11...and a Dragonfly
An instance of real time synchronicity
No sooner did I post yesterday’s piece about the equinox, the harvest festival of Michaelmas, the archangel Michael and his colours of brightest cobalt blue, than my eye was caught by a movement through the sitting room window; the most amazing, brightest electric blue dragonfly,swooping out over the pond. So huge that I did a double take, thinking it must surely be a bird. But there is no bird so blue, or not round here.
Only a kingfisher could be so blue, and I have seen a kingfisher here before. But no, back it came again. It was definitely a dragonfly. An electric blue dragonfly, an insect warrior spirit, the fiercest hunter on the pond. It begins by hunting underwater in its larval state, and it is lethal, and then, once fledged, is a supreme hunter by air over water.
Lethal beauty. There are many dragonflies here during the summer months, some blue, others golden or brown or pale yellow. But not usually so late in the year.
And the sharpness of the conjunction of this timing struck me as interesting. Odd!
A real-time synchronicity? If so, what was its meaning or message?
Dragonfly symbolism says that the dragonfly represents change, transformation and maturity, while blue is the colour of serenity, insight and inspiration.
A blue dragonfly is a message from a higher realm, possibly angelic, and is a message that a loved one has arrived ‘back home’ and is at peace. In my own personal case, this would be my darling, mighty little mother who died very early on Sunday 27 February; after a night when the Northern Lights were seen the length of the British Isles, and short eared owls were hooting outside the house.
So now I drew a Tarot card. What was the ‘message’ of the dragonfly? And by extension, what was the ‘message’ from Michael, archangel of the South, whose name means, ‘who is like God’?
More synchronicity. I drew the King of Swords from The Legacy of the Divine deck.
A warrior of Air, a human dragonfly, an armed angel wearing blue.
The court card of the zodiac sign of Libra.
Astrologically, this card classically represents a man belonging to one of the air signs, particularly the fixed sign of Aquarius, though he may be a Gemini or Libra subject. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is an Aquarius sun sign subject. Donald Trump is a Gemini sun sign subject. Now we are in Libra territory. My spouse, Il Matrimonio is a Libra sun sign subject, and served in the UK military a long time ago, and served as a helicopter pilot in the Army Air Corps. Vladimir Putin is a Libra sun sign native, though his year of birth is uncertain, whether it is 1952 as officially stated or 1950.
This king’s natural ruling element is Air.
Attack by air may mean further missiles, with an eye to Crimea or The Black Sea, though I fear we won’t see an end to this war in Ukraine in 2023. I don’t know, of course, any more than anyone else does. Readers do not claim to “know” anything. But Scorpio or Sagittarius timing is looking more likely for a ceasefire to me right now as viewed through the cards, and it could be detecting developments just before Christmas 2023, but I fear Scorpio-Sagittarius 2024 onward is far more likely, and I pray that events will prove this wrong.
But ‘attack by air’ may just as likely mean a political battle of wills, and we are in times of stormy weather in general, and on a global scale, and of increasing domestic and international intensity which seems likely to continue into 2026, for those who associate it with the influence of the current Uranus in Taurus transit.
Attack by air also means misinformation. Or airborne infections. My brother has covid now for the third time, though in his case it is “only” unpleasant, and not dangerous. He has had some, but not all of the boosters. His last booster triggered a new episode of Bell’s Palsy, which he last had many years ago and he knew it was this last booster because the facial paralysis developed same day, within hours of receiving it.
This is not to comment one way or another on covid vaccinations, or vaccination in general. Everyone has their own unique medical history and must arrive at their own conclusion in respect of what seems wisest.
Many years ago I was diagnosed with a leaky aortic heart valve, now being recorded as heart failure. Earlier this week had a scan, pending analysis and feedback from the cardiologist. The King of Swords can indicate a surgeon or surgery, and by now we are gleaning a sense of the multi faceted character and potential application of,not only this particular card, but of each and every one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck.
I have lived with this a long time. I am not alarmed, only curious but whatever the findings, will not be rushed or pressured in respect of decision making.
Beyond the sun sign meanings associated with this blue human dragonfly, Aquarius rules the astrological Eleventh House of Community, ideas, science. IT and technology. More big news in the space industry any time soon, then.
The message of Archangel Michael, the coincidental dragonfly, and the King of Swords can be seen and understood equally as something or nothing.
The broadest meaning of the message, whether this is understood as being meant for me personally, or for the wider collective at this turbulent time seems to be,
The truth will come to light. Confusions will clear.
Coping strategies: keep your eyes open and keep your cool, no matter what. This way, we can avoid making anything worse. Hold your temper, your tongue and your nerve. Do your research. In the meantime, tread lightly, if decisively. No going stamp-about in the face of provocation. Stand your ground but go high, stay high. Do not buckle. But do buckle up. Not because of any imminent threat, but simply because life right now demands more resilience than it has done at other times.
The dragonfly is a promise of change. A blue dragonfly is change for the better. And on a personal note, I feel that my mother has reached and attained the wild blue yonder. I felt her, ‘saw’ her coming out of the other side of “the valley” on the tenth day after her passing. What she was looking at now, I have to say, looked rather like North Yorkshire. My mother was shown to me in three quarter profile, looking away from me, but I could see that she was looking up and smiling, clouds chasing the sunshine across the hills.
This is rather down to earth vision of paradise, one might feel. Limited perhaps by my own imagination. How do we picture what is so very far beyond our ken? But my mother used to say of herself, that she was all her life, a child of the Pennines. She grew up in Lancashire and used to say of the people of Lancashire that they were characteristically as warm and kindly as they were grounded and sanguine. After her children had all left home, she and father moved and she lived her last thirty years and died in her home in Teesdale, on the south bank of the river Tees, marking the old limits of North Yorkshire (and the people of Yorkshire do like to say of Yorkshire that it is God’s own country.)
View over Teesdale from Laithkirk, photograph by friend Jane Moss Luffrum
But to return to that blue dragonfly, and the archangel Michael and his battle with The Devil.
Lucifer, the one time Bringer of Light is above all, a liar, and he is not our friend. Whatever entraps us, takes us into dependency, helplessness or obsession-whether it is our own worst fears, or our deepest desires; whether it is to do with another person, or situation, or a substance addiction, it is not our friend.
See the chains around their necks.
We will all die one day, ain’t that the truth. And people that we love will die before us, and we shall bear witness to their passing, and be left to grieve and mourn their absence, but to be grateful that they have gone free and gone forward.
The truth is sometimes painful, but it sets us free, so goes the wise old saying. Michael went into battle with Lucifer in defense of God’s Law, and Humankind. His element is fire, the ultimate fire of creation, and his weapon is the sword of truth.
The battle angel Michael offers safe escort to the souls of the newly dead on their journey back home to the origins of everything, beyond the stars of the Milky Way.
His colours are blue. It might be any colour of blue, but in battle array, he wears the hottest cobalt blue.
