The serpent-woman is coiled around a menhir, which holds or celebrates the spirits of several beings, human and feline. But that is hard to see, for there is a bright light coming from behind the menhir, streaming around it like lightning to warm or provide light for the serpent. She is all golden, and her scales almost blend in with the cobblestones beneath her--or perhaps they do, perhaps she is also the ground itself, made manifest.
The serpent is a symbol of transformation and rebirth. We can all shed our outgrown spiritual skins and emerge, glowing and bright, able to surpass our prior limitations.
When a snake is getting ready to shed its skin, its eyes "milk" over, for the whole skin is shed, including the skin over the eyes. It has a period of blindness, of feeling too small for its own skin, when things seem itchy and the world may seem more dangerous--well, of course it does, when you can't see what's around you. A nice, cool bath can help, both relieving the symptoms and helping to loosen the old skin so you can slide out of it, revealing the new you, all shiny and bright, vision once again clear.
It happens over and over again, this cycle of growth, of feeling wrong in your own skin, and then of revitalization, of opening your inner eyes wider and seeing things you didn't see before, or maybe just seeing the same things more clearly, and being able to grasp the things you could only barely touch with a fingertip before.
Listen to your own higher self. The monuments of the past can support you, but they cannot define you.
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The Serpent
Date: 2017-06-09 06:05 am (UTC)The serpent is a symbol of transformation and rebirth. We can all shed our outgrown spiritual skins and emerge, glowing and bright, able to surpass our prior limitations.
When a snake is getting ready to shed its skin, its eyes "milk" over, for the whole skin is shed, including the skin over the eyes. It has a period of blindness, of feeling too small for its own skin, when things seem itchy and the world may seem more dangerous--well, of course it does, when you can't see what's around you. A nice, cool bath can help, both relieving the symptoms and helping to loosen the old skin so you can slide out of it, revealing the new you, all shiny and bright, vision once again clear.
It happens over and over again, this cycle of growth, of feeling wrong in your own skin, and then of revitalization, of opening your inner eyes wider and seeing things you didn't see before, or maybe just seeing the same things more clearly, and being able to grasp the things you could only barely touch with a fingertip before.
Listen to your own higher self. The monuments of the past can support you, but they cannot define you.