The Snake and the Life Force
La serpiente y la fuerza vital
A student shares a dream involving a snake and seeks help understanding its symbolism. The teacher interprets it as an encounter with deep primal energy and the life force, connecting it to the student's growing creativity and vitality.
The Snake and the Life Force
A student shares a dream involving a snake and seeks help understanding its symbolism. The teacher interprets it as an encounter with deep primal energy and the life force, connecting it to the student's growing creativity and vitality.
I had thought of a snake, and the only two symbols that came to me were temptation and wisdom. It has separate symbolisms. But what you say is great.
An old pattern of control
The impulse to fumigate, to get your father to deal with the snake, is an old part of you trying to get someone else to handle something that simply isn't going to work that way. That's a conventional way of relating to something we can't control. These are energies and aspects of very deep, primal power.
The Peruvian woman in your dream represents the life force in you. This connects directly to what you are going through: you're finding much more energy for activity and creativity. Kundalini is a creative energy. It is life force. It is creativity.
The snake is out of the hole
What the dream is showing is that the snake is out of the hole, the cat is out of the bag. You are now in direct contact with your life force, and it is completely new. It is a new relationship for you to learn how to navigate.
I didn't expect that interpretation. The only two symbols that came to me were temptation and wisdom. But what you say is great.
Temptation and divinity
Yes, and the temptation comes through how, as humans, we reached for the divine. Prometheus brought the light of God into the human, which is a Christ symbol. And then, as humans, we were tempted with the fruit of knowledge, that which was attributed only to the gods. So that is the temptation. The snake is the life force, and it is also the temptation: you are now in touch with something that is more than human.
As humans, we reach out to divinity, and divinity reaches out to humanity. That is the image Michelangelo painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling: our nature is the same. It is a more Eastern symbol, but it is the same in Christianity. The Trinity: three that are one, and one that is three. The human aspect, the divine aspect, and the relationship. Those are three (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost), but it is also one. It is not separate.
Great, thanks.
My pleasure.