11/04/2025
✨Anchor✨
Storytime…I’ve been missing my mom, can’t believe it’s almost a month since she’s been gone. However, she’s been reincarnated into a yellow butterfly for me (in Filipino culture, when a loved one passes, they come back as a butterfly 🦋).
She showed up immediately the day after she passed while I was on a walk with my husband and after my first encounters with her (she showed up 3x!), I found her wedding rings and her favorite jade ring that I was worried had gone missing since she had basically lived in three places the last years of her life. After that day, I’ve been seeing yellow butterflies around my neighborhood and in different parts of town when I’ve been missing her most. As in, tears in my eyes and when I look up a flash of yellow fluttering around brings some hope and happiness. And are butterflies known to fly into busy streets? Usually I’ve see them around sidewalks and bushes, but there was a day where exactly this instance on a busy street happened. And on that day, after a butterfly flew across my windshield as I was driving, I saw multiple yellow butterflies along the busy street’s sidewalk, then I was basically lead to coming across this green stone in a local store I had not previously known about even after many years of looking for local places to purchase supplies from.
This serpentine stone was unexpectedly gifted to me by a kind store owner after I was looking for some jade (mom’s favorite gem) and it’s said to be used for grounding, protection, emotional healing and balance, transformation and rebirth - all things I think are relevant to coping with grief. I was inspired to design this particular necklace, influenced by its color richness similar to jade, and the wonder with how I was lead to it - it makes me think of my mom and how her presence will always be a guide/an anchor for everything I do and how, no matter if she’s physically here or not, she’s always by my side. 💚
I added two little emeralds to represent myself and my brother, with the gold bead to represent my dad, who was her golden love, to hold her safely.
Call it superstitious, but I like to find comfort and hope in little signs. Do you?✨