Episode 6

The Monarch’s Impossible Journey – A Flight Beyond Time

Some creatures are bound to the land, forever tethered to where they began. The Monarch Butterfly is not one of them.

Every year, millions of Monarchs embark on an impossible migration, traveling over 3,000 miles across North America to the mountains of Mexico. But no single butterfly completes the journey. It takes generations. A lineage of travelers, each carrying a piece of a story they will never see the end of.

How do they know where to go?

What guides them across vast landscapes they have never seen?

And what does their epic journey reveal about fate, memory, and the unseen forces that lead us home?

Join Adrian Adair, The King of Butterflies, as we follow the flight of the Monarch Butterfly—nature’s most determined traveler.

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Gleam Of Butterflies
A poetic journey into the mystery, beauty, and transformation of butterflies. Hosted by Adrian Adair

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Adrian Adair

There are those who simply admire butterflies—and then there are those who seem to move with them, understanding their silent language, following their unseen paths.

Adrian Adair is one of the latter.

The creator and voice behind Gleam of Butterflies, Adrian doesn’t just study butterflies—he listens to them. He traces their flight through myth and time, unearthing the stories they carry on their wings. With each episode, he takes listeners on a journey through forgotten legends, poetic symbolism, and the quiet miracles of nature.

His voice is both a guide and a whisper—leading through the gilded shimmer of the Blue Morpho, the spectral mystery of the Black Swallowtail, the eternal migration of the Monarch. He speaks of butterflies as spirits, as omens, as echoes of transformation, revealing what cultures across history have always known: these creatures are more than delicate wings. They are messages, waiting to be understood.

Some people chase butterflies. Adrian walks among them.

Follow the flight, and step into the wonder.