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Keynote: Resurrection. The beetle is the most varied of all insects. There may be as many as 280,000 kinds of beetles. To put this into perspective, the number of vertebrate animals~ including fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals~ may be around 44,000. In Egypt, the scarab, or sacred beetle, had great significance. The beetle would take a piece of ox dung and shape it into a ball by rolling it from eat to west. The eggs were laid within this and buried. After about a month, the beetle would dig it up and push it into the water, and the young would emerge. Because of its east to west rolling, it came to be associated with the sun and its movement across the sky. The scarab thus came to be a symbol for solar deities and for new life. As with many insects, the beetle goes through a tremendous metamorphosis from the grub stage to the winged. Because of this, it is associated with resurrection and change. In its winged stage, the front set of wings are thickened into hard covers which fold and protect the soft underside. This may indicate for those with this totem a need to be more protective, or possibly that you are too closed off. If the beetle has shown up in your life, examine the need for metamorphosis. Are you in the process? If so, what stage? Do you need a change? Are you needing new sunshine? It is time to resurrect some aspect of your life? Is it time to leave the past behind? The beetle can show you how to do this with the greatest success.
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