Dancing with the Serpent

The Sacred Feminine Codes

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AHA MOMENTS

As a child I always loved dot puzzles. Connecting them, drawing lines which would eventually reveal the hidden picture. There are moments in life, like this puzzle, when the indiscriminate dots begin to connect in related ways. What were once scattered bits of information begin to weave together a mythic story, profound experience, a life teaching. This happened at a women’s retreat I attended in the last part of May. A shamanic process that is still unfolding.

THE DOTS…

Venus/Innana Journey

This past year I have been in ritual with the Mesopotamian Innana story. An epic tale from four millenniums ago found in the Sumerian poem by Enheduanna, The Descent of Inanna. For seven dark/new moons, as the planet of Venus descended, I practiced a specific rite. A symbolic removal of an accoutrement at each one of the successive seven gates to the underworld, for a sacrifice is required. Moving from will to a willingness. After the seventh gate I entered the underworld, home of the Dark Goddess, Ereshkigal. That was three months ago.

Since then, it has been about dying, falling into the chasm of the mythos activated by the Dark Goddess. Moving down deep with no place to land, letting myself be transfigured within this ongoing cycle of impermanence. Transformation is a very powerful and beautiful process but it’s also challenging and painful. Currently, I am right before the part of the story where Innana resurrects and returns to her over lands and throne.

It was during this three-month underworld period I had a dream…

Feminine Abyss

I am telling my dream in present tense, this is how we do this in the dream circle I attend.

I find myself at a casual outdoor gathering, sitting cross legged on the ground. There is a young girl of about one and a half years of age sitting on my lap. We are ecstatically laughing and giggling together. My heart feels incredibly open, I simply love connecting with this little one. Eventually, I stand up and put her down on the ground. She immediately starts waddling straight into a puddle. But instead of splashing around like I thought she would, she immediately sinks completely into it. I panic! Going right into protection mode I put my head into the water but all I can see is a huge unending pit of blackness. I think I see a blur of light that could be the child, but it quickly disappears. It’s like she was sucked into a huge funnel of inkiness. In a total quagmire I pull my head out and turn to her mother who was calmly knitting beside this puddle. I tell her of her daughters fall into this deep abyss. Her reaction surprises me, for she calmly nods her head in acknowledgement like she expected that to happen.

The dream ended there, but a few days later I took it further into somatic practice. The intention was for fuller understanding, but what happened surprised me for it continued as a waking dream. The young girl rises out of the puddle, just as giggly as before. She toddles over to me, takes my hand and guides me to the pool of water. I feel unsure, yet she is so confident and clearly wants me to jump in with her. So, I do…

A Cacao and Breathing Ceremony

Last weekend I was at a women’s retreat in the desert, mostly arid yet there was an oasis nearby, a soothing creek which I visited quite frequently. Was wonderful to spend time unplugged, in ceremony, diving deep and enjoying the company of the women in attendance. I have been needing this, being in community, live not online!

One ceremony we did involved cacao and breath work. We started with the cacao. This brought me deep into my belly, where I felt both the feral and serpentine energies playing with each other. As the snake slithered, I slithered. Spiraling, circling, sinuous motions as my body moved with the music. When we lied down for the breath work, I could feel the snake coiling in my belly, moving with my breath. I became the snake.

At some point a dream from 1987 came forward, the same time I entered a Hindu tradition called Siddha Yoga. I won’t be relaying the whole dream, only the significant part. I am in an empty hallway and I open a door. Behind it is raven blackness, a void of nothingness. Until a copra begins to rise, meeting me straight on, eye to eye. In a flash she strikes my hand, biting it.

According to Hindu tradition, being bitten by a copra in a dream is auspicious. Which was true for me, starting my journey with the feminine power of the Kundalini Shakti. The coiled serpent that rises as spiritual awakening.

During this ceremony, both dreams were present. Including the work I have been doing in the underworld with the Dark Mother. Simultaneously the snake energies were rippling in my body along with each breath. At some point it all began to coalesce, the dots connecting one right after another. Then with deep respect and wonderment, I came to understood that I was that cobra behind the door those many years ago, reaching out from the abyss and biting myself. Time converging into one moment. The present as the future becoming the past, the past making the future present moment possible. The ouroboros circling around to swallow its tail, as this folding in time. Everything rose in me as a crescendo, then dropped into my belly as a full body knowing. Truly, a significant juncture and realization had just occurred in my life

THE SNAKE

My whole life I have been dancing with the serpent. I have not been able to put words to this before, yet today it’s like I have known this for a lifetime, it has always been evident. The snake undulating through my being and body in tangible ways as the many sacred feminine codes. That of mystery, death and rebirth, the underworld, wisdom and transformation.

My whole life I have been dancing with the serpent… Kundalini Shakti herself as the coiled snake rising up my spine. But not just upward, downward too. Feminine wisdom knows that Kundalini Shakti is not just about transcendence but also needs to descend back down into the heart, that of Eros and compassion. Then into the belly, of sacred power. What was activated before is now grounded.

My whole life I have been dancing with the serpent… instead of dominance as some supreme, suprahuman state, it is about understanding that we are also human being animals. That we are both light and density, spirit and physical, soul and matter, mind and heart. A humble respect with nature and existence.

My whole life I have been dancing with the serpent… unchaining myself from old worn-out Christian paradigms about the devil as the snake and woman who brought forward original sin.

My whole life I have been dancing with the serpent… shedding my skin and renewing myself. Releasing what I have been told to believe and opening to my intuitive nature. Navigating the hidden realms. Dying and being reborn into a deeper trust of Her as my own instincts.

My whole life I have been dancing with the serpent…

Questions for you…

• What is your relationship with the Divine Feminine, how is she moving in your life?

• What symbology and/or mythos is rising alongside that?

• How is She transforming your life?

Would love to know your thoughts and feelings. Let’s have a conversation…

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