Ladybugs 🙁

What can represent the ladybugs for you?
I think that's the key.
Whatever they may be, nice ideas or nice group of people, will be subject to unfair undesirable situations. Not your fault, but despite your good steps you cannot fix it. But not everything is destroyed.
Something good, something beautiful will be less than expected.

Once I had a similar omen with some dead crabs. It also felt quite sad. It was on a little break in the middle of a trip, so I interpreted it as conected to the person I was going to visit, in fact a Cancer one. As a warning, something that can happen in a near future, to take care about it.
I wonder if what you were going to do next can be connected to it. In case you were coming home with the idea to do something concretely.

Just a short while ago I finished a ceremony for my daughter that I haven´t seen in many years and who avoids me. Sad story; I´ve partly told it before on the forum; I had to leave the country in which she left and she was to small for to understand what motivated me (escaping false accusations that would have led to jail time).

Anyway... Her power animal as a child was the ladybug.

It´s very much an omen of vitality and freedom, I believe. How do we speak to a ladybug? We let them walk on our hands, until the choose a fingertip to get airborn from. When they spread their hard, outer wings, we make a wish for ourselves and all good for the ladybug. Then it flies.

Ladybug is about joy, and again: freedom. Also adventure.

If the omen presented itself they way that you told it, you first spotted a living ladybug.

The times we are living in are difficult. In Ukraine and other places of the war people die in droves. But you are alive.

To me it sounds like an omen of not being afraid, despite everything bad going on around you. Even if other people die, it´s probably not going to happen to you, not this time.

You are a traveler and a freedom lover, right? There you go... 

Well, that´s my reading.

As for my daugther she has evolved into another animal. But the ladybug that I keep on my altar was still in the ceremony, and what was it all about? About letting her go. I have to stop having any expectation whatsover on her, even about her coming back some day. A hard task, but necessary. For both of us.

Staffan

so funny that this topic of ladybugs came up because i too saw one yesterday and was wondering the same thing! it went on my hand and eventually on my shoulder. i too love them and everytime i see one i try and be as gentle as possible.

i took my shirt off because of the heat as carefully as i could and was scared at one point that in doing so i killed it. however, it would have been completely unintentional because i was very careful in removing and placing the bag back on, but the ladybug just kept going towards my armpit ?? it might have flown away by that point but who knows!

i think considering there was one ladybug standing (which you initially noticed) and then saw others which had sadly died, it might be a situation where socially (amongst people you consider 'alike' to you because they were ladybugs) something undesirable could happen. it might be completely out of your control and there would be nothing for you to do about it, just like for me there was nothing i could do about potentially having hurt the ladybug on my shoulder when i removed my bag (and i was extra careful!)

i completely relate to you feeling horrible seeing dead animals also, i get the exact same gut-wrenching feeling :/ i am not exactly sure how this could be read but wanted to share my experience too because i know how it feels 

Thank you all for your insights! Super helpful! I think I'm starting to make sense of it. *trigger warning - violence* I also had a nightmare last night which was pretty awful, part of it was about world war, but in a more fantasy-like/dystopian world. (Indeed recent world events have scared me more than I thought) Long story short, the place I was living in was about to get invaded any moment by armies which were known to be completely brutal and ruthless, so I had decided on jumping from my apartment in a high-rise building as soon as I knew for sure that they were getting close - that way it would be at least a quick end, rather than being potentially tortured, enslaved etc. I remember when I saw the ladybugs my afterthought was about remembering how one of my pets had died a year ago, how devastating it was not only for us but also for another one of my pets as they were soulmates and always cuddling and playing together (seeing the living moving ladybugs walking close to the other ones who had been crushed). I think it's just me still trying to process that everything in life eventually ends, that no matter how we try to protect ourselves and those we love, inevitably something will happen. On a rational level I have accepted it, but on a deeper level I'm still scared and just can't wrap my head (and heart) around all the suffering and destruction we have to be a part of here on Earth. I also always feel guilt about not being able to prevent "bad things from happening".

It could be my Capricorn Saturn, which just completed its maturation (and is starved by Mars), could also be my 8th house Pisces Rahu with Mercury - as I will be tackling Rahu maturation in a few years. It certainly won't be a quick process, I'm doing what I can... Knowing I have no control over so many aspects of life that can cause me and those I love pain is something I find extremely hard to make peace with. It's all ego I know, wanting to be in control and all, holding tight to "me and mine"... But it still sucks!

Thank you again!