Any of various large insects of the order Odonata or suborder Anisoptera, having a long slender body and two pairs of narrow, net-veined wings that are usually held outstretched while the insect is at rest. Though I initially, foolishly rejected the idea that my totem was an insect , through dreams and visions, I learned to listen to this incredible guide, and have embraced it since. I adopted the nickname, and will be making it a formal part of my magickal name in the near future. Dragonflies remind us that we are light and can reflect the light in powerful ways if we choose to do so. This is a part of what dragonflies and damselflies teach us.
Life is never quite the way it appears, but it is always filled with light and color.
Dragonfly can help you to see through your illusions and thus allow your own light to shine forth. Dragonfly brings the brightness of transformation and the wonder of colorful new vision. Dragonfly medicine is of the dreamtime and the illusionary facade we accept as physical reality. The iridescence of Dragonfly's wings reminds us of colors not found in our everyday experience. Dragonfly's shifting of color, energy, form, and movement explodes into the mind of the observer, bringing vague memories of a time or place where magic reigned.