* I recently experienced a vision dream about getting bit by a ferocious, huge, white snake. It strode toward me cobra-like (flared and raised) but it had thorny, almost feather-like, barbs around it’s head and neck. I was prepared to do battle with it and it lunged at me, bit me and we tussled. Fairly immediately, I realized I had tamed it; and understood it was to be my companion. The dream then went on in a prophetic storyline. The meaningful (and welcome) thing is, this dream vision explained two bookended snake like experiences I had twenty five years apart. It gave me spiritual closure. I’ve come to believe, the dream vision re-enacted an initiation process that has been going on for the last couple decades. The result of which is my stepping into my spiritual calling and claiming it in my life’s activities.
Let me backtrack. Since as early as I can remember, I have had dream abilities that were special. As a child, sometimes I would sleep and experience psychic dreams that I would share with my family. It was just something we accepted. My visionary dreams are distinct and I easily distinguish them from regular sleep dreams. Several times in my life I connected to loved ones who were geographically far away (in different states or countries) with vital information or I saw things happening to them, only to awaken and call them to find out that indeed, they were experiencing the distress I had dreamed. I learned tarot from my tia (aunt) in Peru and seemed to intuitively understand it with no trouble at all. I did not have to work at it and I have enjoyed working with tarot pretty much all my adult life. In 2000, I had a auditory visit from my father as he was dying. He was in a coma and his body was totally non responsive, but I heard, clear as a bell, his voice instructing me to get my mother. I did and he passed peacefully with my mom and I by his side. This was remarkable, as my psychic episodes were usually just visual, but I was not surprised as I have a special connection with my father. These are just some of the psychic things that happened to me and I only tell you so you can see that psychic/spiritual energy was always active in my body, although I did not talk much about it for fear of ridicule.
Now here is the wiggy thing. I’ve had two impressionable incidences with snake visions in my life and then this dream comes along not long after the second; and it explained everything to me! Much to my relief. The first happened in San Francisco in the early 1990’s. I was working full time in social services but in my private time, I was heavily involved with spiritual studies. I had taken classes at the Motherpeace school founded by Vicki Noble. There were other things going on in my life, that in retrospect, I see were initiatory processes starting but suffice it to say, I was clueless to the depths with which I was summoning psychic energy.
One evening, I aligned my energies with the moon, took a meditative warm bath and lit a white candle on my altar. I began a kundalini meditation that I had learned about at Motherpeace school and deeply sank into the swirling vortex of energy that wound up and down my spine. I saw in my minds eye an indulating thick snake coiling in my pelvis and moving up and down my center. Whether it was the warm bath water, candle light, or just the energy harnessed, I became engulfed in swirling energy and felt separate from my surroundings. All of the sudden, just as I was experiencing a crescendo of energy inside of myself, the white candle votive on the alter (in the adjacent room) burst violently. Upon examination, I found broken glass and candle fragments that were scorched in some areas. I was a bundle of nerves and disbelief. I did not know what to make of it, but I “knew” it had to do with the intense energy I experienced swirling inside myself. It haunted me for decades, standing out singly as the most unexplainable psychic phenomena that I have experienced. While I knew it had something to do with the energy I was working with, I could not bring myself to tell many people or make a big deal of it. I did reach out to one psychic professional I knew but she was not much help, so I let it go, embarrassed at how odd it sounded and I kept it a special secret of my own.
Flash forward twenty five years. I now live in South Florida and had recently gotten into yoga Few months ago, I aligned myself to the full moon, and sat outside, under the stars and again, near a body of water (a marsh). I was alone, on a gorgeous evening and did conscious breathing, prayed and started chakra visualizations. I had placed a white candle in a votive under the palm tree I was sitting next too and had created a lovely altar of sorts for my nature communing. I began seeing that thick snake coiling around in my inner vision again and felt it climbing and roiling inside me. And again, for the second time in my life, in a moment of deep meditation on my kundalini energy, the white candle votive next to me exploded ferociously. I was incredulous! I immediately knew what I would find as I searched for the fragments in the dark. Upon examination, I found remains exactly like I had seen twenty-five years ago. This time, I did tell a few people. I went to my yoga teacher and told her, but she did not take it seriously and said the wind probably blew the candle out. I told her, “no, it exploded” and in time with the intense sinking into my kundalini energy visualization. But she dismissed it. Then I told my counselor, who was helping me in other life areas. He just looked at me with surprise and said, “I have no idea what to say.” So , again I tucked it away, and resigned myself to the mystery of it.
Now we get to a few weeks ago. I dreamt a long prophetic dream, but a key part of the narrative involved me going with a small group of people into a jungle with a leader. At one point he asks those who want to leave to leave and go no further and my companion leaves but I say I will stay. We go deeper into a stone structure and are ushered into an enclosure. Creatures of all sorts are released into our midst. I can see that each fantastical creature seems to be going toward a particular person. And the creature that is coming to me is a humongous, white snake, with spiny neck and deadly fangs. He is hissing and all together looks like a monster. I decide that if that is my fate, then so be it and I prepare to do battle. It rears up to almost my height and I try to grab him by the neck. It bites me and tears at my wrists. Then in an instant, without knowing how I did it, I have the snake by the neck and he becomes still, then withdraws his teeth. I let him go and he then seems tame! The dream progresses, but the snake is now by my side and I am informed that I will be married to someone the snake chooses. And then the dream proceeds.
Upon awaking, I immediately sensed this was a marker of the end of a spiritual struggle I have been on for many years.I believe the initial energetic burst signaled a beginning of an spiritual trial which lasted to now. And the recent energetic burst signaled the end of this difficult trek. My serpent dream showed me it was an initiation. In many native traditions, surviving snake bites is part of an initiatory process for healers or spiritual workers. Once you have learned to transmute the poison that could have killed you, you are immune to it and can then draw on the teachings of that “medicine”. I consulted friend and urban curandera Lea Arrellano and guidance confirmed I am reading the signs correctly.
My last twenty five years have taken me to great depths of fear, sorrow, alienation and destruction; and it brought me to a place of wisdom, hope and unlimited possibilities. I feel called to write and reach out to people with my spiritual insight, gifts and sisterly advice, if ever appropriate;-) The world is in dire need of people who are listening to the whispers of intuition, and Spirit and I hope reading this blog inspires you to do just that!
* This is a picture of a carving of the great plumed serpent found at Teotihuacan, Mexico.
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