Connecting to the spirit wisdom of the natural world!
When I arrived at my writing room this morning, the first thing that caught my attention was a Crane Fly, which lay dead upon my desk in its perfect adult form.
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Who would give even a second thought to this and why would anyone care?
Some may even think what a relief, awful things – which is what would pass through the mind of most because Crane Fly, often called “daddy long legs,” and also known as mosquito hawks, are one of the most misunderstood flying insects.
Like many insects, so often described as pests and ‘creepy-crawlies’, these little creations, can have the biggest and bravest of souls crumble into a frantic shivering wreck.
It is not surprising, when having been described as pests and demonised by the negative association with anything seen as ‘creepy crawly’, that insects such as this get such bad and wholly ‘fake’ press bounded around about them.
This is why Crane Fly has shown up and asks that I share its message as a Spirit Totem because all life has a spirit meaning and purpose.
It wants me to shine a spotlight upon its meaning and purpose in order to set the record straight, as it were, to correct a few facts and have us look at life a little differently in the age that is beginning to wake up to the fact that all life and lives matter.
Yes, even mine, says, Crane Fly!
The Crane Fly or Daddy Long-Legs, as many of us know it to be called, is closely associated with the meaning of life.
Crane Fly focuses us on the fact that Humans spend their lives trying to work out the meaning of life, now more so than ever, and it’s for this reason that the natural world is communicating with us at such a personal level.
Spirit Totems have wisdom to impart!
Crane Fly asks that we look at a few misconceptions.
Many flap around when they see a Daddy-longlegs because they resemble the mosquito which is well known to bite and spread disease and where the Crane fly gets another of its names – the mosquito hawk.
Crane Fly may look like a mosquito, however it is not one, therefore it asks me to convey a few truths – they do not bite humans, are not filled with venom, and do not carry disease.
Crane Fly says: I am not, as many believe, a harmful pest.
Adding: Where have you been misjudged or have you misjudged others?
Drinking only water when young, as adults they only live for a few days to mate, usually surviving without eating at all.
Frequently found indoors, they may be a nuisance to humans, although the Crane Fly is unsure as to why because they don’t make noise or interfere with anything, they are though a feast for spiders and outdoors they are fair game for garden birds.
Knowing this – Daddy Long Legs, as it conveys would be the best practice in the case of common household spiders, suggests that we would best serve the natural world by way of leaving them alone if spotted in your home – or, at the very least, carefully catch them and put them outside.
They are not poisonous to humans or harmful in any way, so they find it hard to understand why we humans panic, harm and/or kill them for the sake of it!
Each is asked to examine where this behaviour comes from – why do we need to destroy rather than know and value the purpose of all life – thus, nurture and protect it.
Crane Fly suggests that this is because we are not sure of life, our own or that of the many other species around us – and because of this we are filled with fear.
That we fear so much in life – even a small harmless Crane Fly can have us act in the most unreasonable of ways.
Crane Fly observes that we do this in many areas of our lives and asks us to examine this with out thoughts attuned to our hearts.
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Connected with Air and Water – Crane Fly links us to our higher mind (thoughts) and higher heart (emotions).
Crane Fly has a very purpose-full – and yet, a very short lifespan within which to achieve all that they are to achieve.
We have established that they are well known and considered as harmful ‘pests’- which is not the case at all – and now know that they don’t live for long.
Knowing this, Crane Fly asks – who would want to snuff out a life before it has had time to mate – being its very reason for being, to reproduce as food for another species.
The Crane Fly asks then that we consider this, how are we snuffing things out, not only in relation to other lives but our y/our own.
It has been incorrectly ‘labelled’ as harmful.
It asks us to look at our fear of insects as a response to our own fear of life.
Do we get our facts right before we lash out, hurt, maim or snuff life out, which can relate to all manner of things, to include friendships, relationships, future career possibilities and a life of a tree, creature – any one of thing that we extinguish out of ignorance and/or fear.
“Symbolically, the Crane Fly represents a variety of virtues that humans should aim to practice, including logic, reasoning, creativity, balance, contemplation, stability, and imagination.”
The Crane Fly, as a Spirit Totem, brings with it the elements of both air and water.
Air links us with esoteric symbolism, which deals with thought – the mind.
Water symbolism speaks to us about emotion – matters of the heart.
This little Spirit Totem asks us to look at out thoughts and analytical mind and seek to understand more deeply how these work with our emotions – heart.
Do we seek to understand or judge without delving ‘deep’ in order to get the ‘real’ facts?
Do we balance our emotional outbursts, such as scream at the sight of a little flying creature, and kill it dead, without care or do we seek to be calm and react kindly by way of leaving it be or simply scooping it up and re-locating it.
Crane Fly asks – how does this relate to other areas of your life?
It also points out that it has great purpose, to procreate and provide a food source for other creatures.
Its life is short, yet it has no other reason but to accomplish this.
Crane Fly asks – what about you?
How are you going about understanding your life purpose, what it is- and once known, fulfilling it.
Where are people misjudging you, describing you incorrectly and therefore causing others to treat you in ways that are not fitting in relation to who and what you truly are?
Crane Fly says that no matter the life here on this earth, each cycle, is short.
How will you make the best of your own life-span?
Often tortured by children, who find it funny to pick off a leg, which they love to do to spiders too!
Crane Fly asks us to look at how we may be being cruel?
And if so, where our desire for cruelty comes from?
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Interestingly enough, just as is the case for other creatures, Crane Fly can let go of a wing or leg as a survival technique, thus helping them to escape the beak of a bird or the weave of a web.
I found a little more information on the internet via What’s-Your-Sign, as follows:
“Legs speak to me of foundations (four pillars of stability) and core beliefs. If we do as the insect intuitively suggests, and consider our softer emotions in relation to our hard-core thoughts, we may detect a “loose leg” in our prime, stabilizing belief systems. We may want to “sacrifice” one of these “legs” if that belief no longer serves us.”
Other Symbolic Insect Meanings for the Crane Fly
• Purpose
• Balance
• Introspection
• Resourcefulness
Mosquito hawks and crane flies are, on the whole, innocuous – they take life casually, flitting from food source to food source. None of these sources being human or animal.
Rather, they consume nectars. This reminds me of resourcefulness, and going light on consuming resources of the earth – not invading or harming other creatures in order to gain life for self – being gentle with our consumption, and taking only what is required.”
Ecology professor Guy Poppy, from the University of Southampton, describes them as an important source of food for creatures that eat insects, including birds and spiders. He says: “Insect eaters will be feasting on all the daddy longlegs at this time of year; a spider web will be full of them.
If you watch a Crane Fly – fly, it truly is quite mesmerising.
They move around gracefully, silently ‘toing and froing’ oh so very lightly, like magical dancers in the air.
They are a late autumnal species that peak their activity in the summer. The larvae – known as leatherjackets – feed through autumn, winter and spring on decaying plant material and plant roots just below the soil surface. These then turn to pupae and new adult flies hatch in September.
If not eaten before, squatted or squished, the lifespan of an adult is only about two weeks, and their purpose is to mate and to die within a few days.
Considering all the truly scary things in the world, The Crane Fly muses, I am not one of them, sharing this in light of the following comments made about them.
“But apart from being a nuisance and frightening people – they were voted the world’s second scariest creature after spiders in a recent poll” ~ Ecology professor Guy Poppy, from the University of Southampton,
In truth, I am an important source of food for creatures that eat insects, including birds and spiders – my larvae also eat decaying plant material and help to recycle nutrients back into the soil.
The Crane Fly concludes that we each have a reason for being, all life forms having an important role to play in the ecosystem, this incredible Spirit Totem having shared, quantified and qualified its own reasons here.
Passing upon my desk of natural causes, we can deduce that it fully completed its role, doing so without getting swatted by a human or eaten by a spider or bird.
I sense a smile upon its tiny little face!
As the spirit of Crane Fly rises, it asks: What about you?
Can you embrace and explore the wisdom shared here?
I would like nothing more than that you do and that you live and pass as I have – naturally, having fulfilled your role, each and all of you leaving this world, as I have, with the happiest of smiles upon your face!
(C) Susanne Austin 21st June 2020
Susanne Rachel Austin writes on Personal and Environmental Wellbeing… ‘Healthy People – ‘Healthy Environment’ – covering natural health and wellbeing, eco-build, sustainable, green and ‘one planet’ living as a business and daily lifestyle choice for all. Susanne is also the author of a daily ‘True Life Wisdom Of The Day’ shared upon several social media channels and is currently in the process of writing a book and putting together a series or workshops. Speaking engagements are also woven into these plans. Susanne’s new website is germinating ‘Quite Naturally’ in-line with this creative process and will be launched as and when complete. She may be contacted through this post or via her e-mail: [email protected]
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