Revised:
1. Showing change in seasons, or planetary revolutions
2. Clock hands moving
3. Father time, baby new year (or the three Greek fates, or other mythological figures representing time or seasons)
4. Tree, flowers or foliage budding, blooming, wilting
5. Caterpillar in a chrysalis morphing into butterfly
6. Human development by age groups, Stages of man, or historic periods or timelines
7. Calendar dates flipping
8. Migration of birds or other animals
9. Map of the world and changes to geography or national flags
10. Changes in styles (cars, fashion, hairdo, music)
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The allusions I make the most:
1. Comparing 5 stages of grief and recovery to %26quot;seasons%26quot;
2. Comparing growing pains and spiritual change to
a. the pain and fear of a baby safe in the womb being pushed out into an unknown world, but finding joy afterwards that far exceeds the labor
b. the emergence of a butterfly from a cocoon, and how the wings must dry before flying off freely
3. Kahlil Gibran's quote %26quot;Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding%26quot; (relates to change in perception)
4. Anything that shows that change in a relationship takes both people
a. I often compare refusal to change to a %26quot;Chinese finger trap%26quot; where the more both people repel each other, they stay stuck, but if they both push to meet in the middle, they free themselves up
b. A scale of justice, or an equation in math, that any change on one side is balanced by change on the other side. So that change happens mutually, and is not a matter of one side controlling the other.
