Whats an Obsidian Butterfly?
Obsidian Butterfly (Itzpapalotl) is an Aztec goddess. Depending on what you read about her, she is a star goddess, an agriculture goddess, an evil demon and the patron of witches (not the good kind, either), or some minor deity that no one cares to talk about. If you read Laurel K Hamilton’s book Obsidian Butterfly (How I curse that she named the book that. My web site is totally lost among all the references to her book!) you’ll think she’s an ancient immortal vampire. No, I didn’t like the book. In 1999, all of a sudden I started seeing butterfly motifs everywhere. It wasn’t just me–my best friend saw them too, but only when she was with me. I was really getting deep into metaphysics then (I started level 1 of Usui Reiki in May 1998 and finished my mastership in February 1999) , studying crystals among other things. I was interested to learn that the properties of obsidian are similar to the meaning of Gevera–to bring the truth. I was re-reading Aztec that summer and I came across
