Wow, all the information about the scarab really is fascinating! Thank you to those who have posted it. I think I'm going to get a scarab to wear to remind me of this.
Another odd thing---in my lifetime, I've been "followed around" by scarabs. LOL I remember my first encounter with them was in a book that my grandmother used to sometimes let me look at. It pictured (and told about but I couldn't read and nobody read it to me) all kinds of animals and creatures. My favorite in the whole book was the dung beetle. LOL I can remember looking at the picture in that book like it was yesterday.
And throughout my life, scarab stones and jewelry have appeared in my life, but they were never my "thing", so I never really paid any attention other than that it's stuck in my mind all through the years. I've always given the items away or discarded them because I preferred other styles of things. I wondered why anyone would think something like that was special or pretty. I should mention, too, that I didn't know till now that the scarab represented the dung beetle.
On the card the wings that look like the wings of Isis are on either side of the beetle. Does Isis have something to do with the scarab? Last year at Bohemia Days I fell in love with a flying Isis figure carved of wood. She's "flying" right over my head as I type this, in fact, because she's a hanging sculpture.
I'll certainly start paying attention now.
Wow---I was just struck by the thought that all the "dung" that I've lived through in my first 40 years carried the "egg" of who I became after all that was past. And of course, I'm the "hatched egg" of everything that's happened all my life---we all are. Being suddenly struck by that thought brought tears to my eyes. Isn't it just awesome how life speaks to us? That fascination I had with the dung beetle as a child was an omen, and all these years, I've brushed off scarabs as being something I didn't like in stones.
Spirit communicates with us in metaphors like this----images and events. I knew that but this is like a Tower moment for me.
Jewelry is always very meaningful to me, so now I'll be collecting scarab jewelry, that's for sure! And anything else to do with scarabs.
Came back to add a comment:
"They are scavengers, which feed on dung and other decaying organic matter--" Well, I certainly do that---I'm a writer and my fiction usually deals with tales of the homeless, addicts, etc. Metaphorically, society sees the homeless as being "dung and decaying organic matter", after all. One of my fairytales even dealt with a group of trolls. Trolls live under bridges, you know. It was actually a troll romance.
My Muse "feeds on dung and decaying organic matter", you could say.
