One with the Land

Greetings community,

This week we look to the snake for a lesson. So lets think about what the snake symbolizes...what the snake has symbolized through the ages and accross cultures. With but a body, no extremities, the snake represents the early stages in the evolution of our race. It represents a closeness with the land, a state of togetherness in which the snake and the land it slithers on can be said to be one and the same. For us as humans, this means that all the resources we need to survive are already a part of us, in our immediate surroundings. If a challenge we confront requires resources beyond what we are able to attain, often this is because that challenge has been built into something much more than it need be. In channeling the energy of the snake, we can approach the challenge from the ground level, upon which we ourselves are stationed and therefore experience great stability, and better distinguish the superfulous from the necessary.