On the way home from a morning jog today I encountered something very upsetting. It had been a beautiful morning, I was feeling happy, full of faith, gratitude, motivation. I saw an orange ladybug on the ground and right next to it - another ladybug that was crushed to death. Looking around I realized there were many of them, and about half of them were crushed. It always upsets me to see any animal dead so not knowing what to do I just went home quickly, looking at my feet to avoid stepping on any bugs. I didn't really know how to save them, it's a quiet neighborhood but still - joggers and cyclist were passing a lot. And when I tried to touch one it was of course trying to avoid me, scared.
Obviously this is a bad omen but I don't know what exactly. Any ideas?
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
It could also be a message encouraging you to live to the fullest. Ladybugs are shortlived. I´m not trying to say that it´s a death omen, not at all, but perhaps Ladybug is your power animal and it wants to remind you about the necessity for you - in that case - to live an adventurous life no matter what? Not letting the dangerous times scare you.
Staffan