What’s the Snake About?
As I came out of the journey, it was clear the snake was my main Shamanic spirit animal.
I was a little embarrassed and scared, as Christian indoctrination and other societal phrases paint the snake out to be an evil animal of betrayal.
But upon deeper connection, it made so much more sense.
Aside from being born under the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology (no coincidences 😆) the snake represents healing and the rising of consciousness.
The internal kundalini awakening from its slumber and spiraling up through the body, fully activating every energetic and physical portal until the divine union where potential meets action, feminine meets masculine, dark meets light, is then able to occur over and over again.
Up and down and up and down and up.
In a way, it betrays the perceived purity of ignorance, but what it gives you is inner wholeness.
True sovereignty.
Yes, please!
It keeps its belly so closely connected to the earth’s wisdom and teachings but can also move in water and climb trees to be in the air.
As it grows to take up more space, it sheds old skin just like as we evolve into higher and more OG versions of ourselves, we too go through the fire of transformation, shedding figurative old skins of the versions of us we used to be.
I’ve spent so much time grieving those old versions of me from a place of loss.
But what the snake has taught me is that’s just the nature of growth. It’s a necessary process. One that just is. AND how incredibly that it affords a continual rebirth into larger versions of you.
In that, nothing is actually lost, only more of you found and remembered.
The movement of the snake is sensual and feminine. And a reminder that nothing is ever a straight line, it’s all movement and alive. Life and hips and tongues when you kiss, emotions and the digestive system and the spine… these things all have some curve.
The snake is healing. It’s mystical. It’s powerful. I was afraid of what it meant to be associated with the snake but now I keep it in my heart like a badge of honor and that’s why it’s an integral part of my brand and what I stand for.
