What does a praying mantis mean when you find one?

Question

please tell me!!!!!

Answer 1

It represents mindfulness, stillness, awareness and intuition. Someone who is meditative might be purposeful in their actions, and thoughtful with decisions. it may be sign to incorporate these attributes into your day to day functioning to try to create balance in your life.

Answer 2

I'm praying that you don't run for the can of bug spray..

Answer 3

Uh, it doesn't mean a thing. It's just an insect.

Answer 4

The Praying Mantis and Early Myths

With its worshipful appearance on one hand and bloodthirsty behavior on the other, the praying mantis, widely distributed across the world, has given rise to many myths, as suggested by its very name, “mantis,” which means “prophet” or “seer,” a being with spiritual or mystical powers.

The praying mantis supposedly directed pilgrims to Mecca, the holiest site in the Islamic world.  It became a god, restored life, bestowed good luck, and helped find lost sheep and goats in Africa.

It helped wandering lovers and lost children find their way home in France.

Its eggs cured bedwetting in China.

Its brown defensive liquid blinded men and killed horses and mules in the United States.  

In 1957, it even gave rise to The Deadly Mantis, a movie about a giant praying mantis entombed in the ice of the Arctic.  The creature revived after lava from a volcanic eruption melted its frozen encasement.  It headed southward, threatening to destroy both New York City and Washington, D. C

Answer 5

Praying Mantis

The praying mantis is the oldest symbol of God: the African Bushman’s manifestation of God come to Earth, “the voice of the infinite in the small,”* a divine messenger. When one is seen, diviners try to determine the current message. In this culture they are also associated with restoring life into the dead. “Mantis” is the Greek word for “prophet” or “seer,” a being with spiritual or mystical powers.

Meet the eye of a mantis and feel the presence of God. Interspecies communicator Sharon Callahan says, “the I of me, and the I of the creature became one and we rested on the breath of God.” She notes that a praying mantis appears sometimes in person, other times in a dream or even in an object of art, but always with the “shiny conscious eye ~ God looking at me through the eye of the Mantis.”

The praying mantis shows the way. In the Arabic and Turkish cultures a mantis points pilgrims to Mecca, the holiest site in the Islamic world. In Africa it helps find lost sheep and goats. In France, it's believed that if you are lost the mantis points the way home.

"Follow Mantis" means putting that core aspect of yourself, your foundation of Spirit, at the helm and let it direct your intellect and ultimately your life.