I caught some images of an adult mole snake.
These images
evoke a strong and mostly unconscious reaction.
Do we have a build in fear of the serpent?
Surely throughout
our evolutionary ancestry as mammals,
we might have developed an archetypal fear to protect us from this predator.
A snake moves without making a sound. The mole snake will disappear
into the ground and suddenly appear when not expected. Unpredictable and mysterious
she makes her undulating moves.
When we go deeper, we find that we have a
serpent inside of us. She is embedded in our genes. Our spine and head carry
the bodily remnants of our inner serpent. Deep inside of our brain sits an ancient
reptile part. A part that can override our thinking, making instinctive and fast
actions possible. This snake nature is at the core of our being. Everything
else, our body, limbs and our thinking brain are built around this core.
Energetically we can experience this serpent as Kundalini
energy. This is the coiled-up life force which can rise through the channels
along and through our spine.
This life-giving power is often symbolized as a snake. It is
the female, all creating principle, which we all have in our bodies. This
aliveness can be scary and in fact it has been discredited and suppressed by
religions which have been captured by patriarchy.
For a hunter gatherer human, who is one with nature, the inner serpent and the outer body and mind are one and he can tap into the serpent power.
With the invention of agriculture, as humans were working
the field and the herders were keeping animals, the relationship with the snake
was broken. The unpredictable snake became dangerous. The feminine life force had
to be domesticated, denied, and made evil to be owned and controlled.
Meeting this snake is a powerful reminder
of the serpent power.
The power which we all have inside, to be kindled and felt and to
become whole again.
