Snake dream

I adream I had the other night...

I am at the entrance of a museum or it could have been the zoo or aquarium .. anyway ... a small snake escapes , I grab it and hold it by the neck and then wonder - oops ...is it poisonous or not ? I become somewhat concerned as I hand it over to the keeper of the Zoo or museum. There are other snakes there too there , bigger ones, pythons .....and I recall the wonderful feeling in real life, a few times , when I've had a python wrapped around my shoulders like a boa .


Notes:

Snake is the universal symbol of transformation. Life, death and rebirth are represented by the shedding of the snake’s skin. Among the Pueblo Indians snakes and lightning are equated with rain and fertility, as are the snake dances annually held by the Hopi.

In Celtic mythologies the snake is the universal symbol of the Earth Goddess, eternally dying and being renewed, and the sinuous, serpentine path of the life force, in China, called “chi“. When St. Patrick “drove the snakes out of Ireland”, it could be interpreted as the older pagan religion, which venerated a cycle of birth/death/rebirth, being driven out of Ireland. Almost universally, the snake is identified with the Goddess in ancient Sumeria, Old Europe, and Egypt. Even in early Christianity the serpent is venerated in some Gnostic sects, among them the “Ophites” or “Serpent People”, who used the symbol of the serpent as an embodiment of the wisdom transmitted by Sophia.

I love snakes in waking life , but respect the poisonous ones.:-)