A Leap of Faith

Life is all around us and it speaks to us. Nature takes us out of the ego mind programming and leads us to reflective thinking. Like now—the evening sun glimmering on the green leaves of the pin-oak tree—says life is ever present and life is good.


A few days ago, a grasshopper landed on the outside of a window near where I was. Why was that noteworthy—because I was on the seventh floor. Can they jump that high? I do not know but I don’t think so. I believe in the wonderful synchronicity of life knowing I can draw meaning from all that lives with me on Mother Earth. I looked up the symbolism of grasshopper for an insight that resonates with my inner knowing.


Grasshoppers/Locusts medicine includes jumping across space and time, astral travel, new leaps forward/leaps of faith/jumping without knowing where you will land, leaping over obstacles, ability to change careers quickly—Grasshopper is the Chinese symbol of good luck and abundance. Anyone with this power animal has been given the ability to take chances - to act on a whim and jump right in. For them things may not progress step by step as they do for other people progress - but rather extremely fast. When taking that leap simply trust your own instincts on when to make the leaps. Listening to your inner voice and responding to it will lead you to positive outcomes. Don’t be afraid to make that leap, remembering all the while that Grasshopper’s only ever jump forwards and never backwards! You are being asked to take a leap of faith, to do something without fear - this will generally be something that you have avoided doing and is often linked to a change in direction on a grander scale. 
www.shamanicjourney.com/article/6140/grasshopper-locust-power-animal-symbol-of-leaping-forward


By accepting the grasshopper as a gift from nature, the symbolism brings me encouragement. The synchronicity sings. I know that I will be leaving one career behind soon and change is sometimes worrisome-but the grasshopper says, “Take a leap of faith.”