Have you ever heard of spirit animals? In many traditions, a spirit animal walks beside you, offering guidance and protection, especially when life asks something difficult of you, such as carrying the weight of loss. You can think of your spirit animal as a guardian, a spiritual companion that helps you find courage when courage is hard to reach.
Those who have lost someone dear often feel a deep longing for connection, a need to remain close to the one they miss and to draw on a strength beyond their own. Spirit animals answer exactly that need. They guide, they shelter, and they remind you where your own power lives. They tend to appear precisely at those moments when everything around you has shifted.
Memorial pieces with a deeper bond
We create memorial jewellery using the hair of the person you have lost. Your spirit animal, whatever form it takes for you, can become the motif at the heart of that piece. The hair is worked into a handcrafted form by our jewellers, sealing something tangible and irreplaceable inside the jewellery you wear.
The butterfly as spirit animal
Among the most beloved spirit animals is the butterfly. Delicate in appearance yet carrying remarkable strength, the butterfly is also the symbol used for children who are remembered as star children.
The butterfly transforms: it enters a chrysalis and emerges as something of extraordinary beauty, moving through the world in infinite variety and lightness. Yet behind that lightness is one of the most powerful spirit animals there is.
Across many myths and ancient cultures, the butterfly is seen as the soul of someone who has died, risen and free. It is a symbol of rebirth and of a life that does not end, only changes form. When a butterfly passes close, some traditions hold that a loved one is watching over you, carrying your worries, keeping you safe. What a tender thought it is, that in these fragile, luminous creatures, the souls of those we have lost move gently through the world.
The ancient Greek word for butterfly is psyche, which also means soul. It was believed that the human psyche, the soul, leaves the body at death and returns in the form of a butterfly.
Your spirit animal, held in a piece made from hair
There are many spirit animals, and there are many ways to discover which one is yours. Whichever it is, we would be glad to bring it to life in a piece of memorial jewellery made from the hair of the one you carry. A small, enduring way to keep that bond close, whatever the day asks of you.
With warmth,
The KEEPMOMENTS team