I was born under the Sign of the Snake, as was my mother before me, and my daughter after me. The fiery and ancient power of this animal boils in our blood, and burns in our souls.
I was born under the Sign of the Snake, as was my mother before me, and my daughter after me. The fiery and ancient power of this animal boils in our blood, and burns in our souls.Snake medicine is our heritage. T'is a wonderful gift, and a heavy responsibility. Snakes are healers; our craft comes by way of alchemy. Poisons and adversities of the spirit, the mind, and the flesh we overcome, transmuting them into beneficial energy... we acquire strength from that which fails to kill us. We thus become able to avert them, resist them, and heal them in ourselves and others when we encounter them again.
The other side of our gift is the harsh and many times lonely road we tread in our journeys. To overcome poison means we must live through the pain... an experience never forgotten. Every time we shed our skins we die and are reborn. Birth and Death are painful changes, feared and misunderstood, even by us. Every time is a first time, when all our previous moments of agony and ecstasy are revived, and augmented. Sometimes, our trial takes us to another lifetime... a new journey.
Yet we live on, as Snakes and other Dragons did, in the never-ending road of Evolution. Like them we change, adapt, and diversify. In our human experience, we enact that passage time and again, for it remains the way to live truly. By becoming one with the Road, we endure and thrive.
Ours is also the mystique of our mythical ancestors. Many are frequently drawn to us by a sensual magnetism, as it was with Medusa when she basked in the golden light of Aphrodite's favor. Others are intensely repelled by our presence, as if mighty Athena had also twisted our countenance into its stark, petrifying opposite. This mystique allows us to reach close to those who would benefit from our gift for healing, as well as to become fearsome guardians of our loved ones and those we serve.
Our challenge is to remain aware of who and what we are, without collapsing ourselves into recklessness and vanity. We are human as is, with human flaws and human virtues, human limitations and potential. The inevitable consequence of abuse or neglect, is the fate of Medusa... to succumb under the mighty blade of wise Athena's warriors.