Moth

The moth is the butterfly’s night-cousin, drawn to light in the dark. Folk tradition treats moths variably — as lost souls, as omens, as the soft unnoticed company of the summer lamp. Jungian analysis reads moth-dreams as longing for illumination, sometimes at real cost. A moth circling a flame is the classical image of the small self’s pull toward a light that could consume it. Notice whether the moth burns or passes through.