Not every moment is cause for a big statement, or for needing to Stand Out…
Sometimes ‘Blending In’ is what is best for survival, and sometimes ‘Blending In’ can be more than that.
Blending In can be a surrendering of the ego and the self. It can be a dissolving of all that has kept us feeling separated and alone.
Snakey is asking you to get closer to Nature, and to perceive yourself as part of your surroundings, and not separate from it all.
In what ways are you feeling separate?
Do you feel like you stand out?
Can you join with the environment you are in?
How can you allow yourself to feel a part of All that surrounds you?
What does it feel like to be a part of the Whole?
How does it feel to be in relationship with everything that is around you?
Snakey is asking you to find ways to exist in connection with all of Nature. You are a part of this universe. You are a part of this ecosystem.
Blend In
Snakey has a message for you. What appears to the outside observer as rest or inaction may actually be a time of gathering resources, of building new internal pathways and structures, and strengthening or reinforcing your inner network. Sometimes we need to lay in the Sun.
We gather energy from its heat.
This card is asking you to slow down enough to replenish yourself.
What replenishes you?
What fulfills you?
What gives you what you need to move forward?
Where is your place of restoration?
What elements do you need to take in?
Snakey is saying “It is time to let your environment nurture and heal you.”
Gather Your Resources
Snakey is adaptable and glides through many different environments.
Snakey has the ability to transition between land and water, moving fast and slow, changing heart rates to rest through the heat and the cold.
Snakey is inviting you to find your inherent fluid nature, as you transition between different demands and environments.
How do you experience transitions?
How can you embrace the Shifts in your life?
How can you bring more fluidity into your way of being?
Snakey is inviting you to “Go for it!”
Be adaptable. Dive into and out of the Waters and the Seasons.
Allow yourself to glide through all the challenges and transformations as varied as they may be.
Go Between worlds
In between all the dramatic moments like shedding skin, and striking prey, there are times that are marked less often as important.
This is a time that is not spent sunning, eating or even preparing… It is the time of just being, hanging in there. It is not about preparing, gathering or releasing…
It’s just a state of being.
It may feel like waiting, but this time could also be filled with smelling the flowers, enjoying the scenery, or stretching. Time marked by not needing to be in any one place or needing to be one specific way…
Snakey is now offering you an opportunity to not fit into any particular pattern or mold.
Snakey is suggesting that maybe you don’t need to create a new pattern or mold of or for yourself. Just let it all hang!
How much can you allow yourself to be in this space of in-between?
Can you hang out without an agenda? Hang out without needing to do anything else right now?
Can you relax in between the activity of one task and the next?
Hang In There
When Snakey shows up, there’s a message… Snakey is asking you, what is no longer serving you?
What is causing you restrictions and holding you back?
Sometimes everything that is visible, must die back, so that new growth can take place. Sometimes ‘leaving the Old Behind’ is simply about shedding a layer.
What do you need to leave behind?
Remember that leaving the old behind, is in service of living more fully, as you are moving forward.
Are you being held back by old beliefs that are no longer serving you? Are old habits and patterns and circumstances keeping you from clearly seeing your way forward?
Can you shed the past, in order to meet, and be present with this moment?
Now as you contemplate leaving the old behind, ask yourself “what am I moving into?”
What qualities and parts of myself do I want to bring forward?
Who is it that is emerging from the old ways of the past?
Snakes always shed themselves free of their skin when it becomes old, and is worn out, and it no longer fits them. What are you outgrowing?
Leave The Old Behind
Snakey says “It is time to ‘pause’ before you make a decision.”
Before you move on, slow down and take stock.
Do you have what you need for your journey ahead?
How does it feel to take a ‘pause’ and “regroup”?
What reveals itself as most important in this moment?
Some moments feel like recognizable crossroads, presenting us with obvious choices to make…
Snakey wants you to take a breath and notice the ‘reality of choice’ in Every Moment.
What crossroads are you at ~ right now?
What options are there for you at this moment?
Before you leap to that first choice that enters your mind, stop, and ask yourself to notice All of your options (even when there seems to be only one or two)...
Snakey is asking you to recognize all of your options before moving.
If you can just ‘pause’ ~ then another way may present itself to you…
Pause At The Crossroads
Snakey is asking you to Spiral in, …to Coil inward.
It is difficult to reach out, when you are fully extended.
This is a time when you have gathered your outside resources to store them internally. It is not yet time for you to take action and Strike your way out. This is a time for drawing in.
Gestation takes place in a very contained environment.
While the egg is Growing and developing, it is given time and nutrients.
Internal organization is taking place!
Allow yourself the time and space to become fully prepared, so you will be ready to move, when the time is right.
Although it may be an inward spiral for you, it is not passive… There is a great amount of energy that is being condensed and Potentized.
Snakey wants to know:
How do you engage from your innermost core?
How do you potentize your inner time?
Are you able to use the time of this inward spiral to revitalize, recharge and reorder yourself?
You will be ready, All in your own time.
…Regenerated, Energized and Empowered for appropriate interactions with the rest of the world, as it is…
Prepare Yourself
Snakey is offering you Snakey Magic!
The power of Reinvention is inherent with Snakey Magic.
The constant cycles of letting go of your old skins allow for living life to its fullest: …growing, …gathering new experiences, …and gathering nutrients.
Just like seasons that go from winter dormancy into the springtime of renewal, …Not all that was comes back to how it had been... Yet, what does come back, is filled with new life force and renewed vitality.
How will you reinvent yourself?
Can you connect with your own inner vitality?
How do you carry your essential cells forward?
How are you able to connect with what is new?
Reinvent Yourself
Snakey is asking you to slide into the depths of where you come from, slide below the surface knowledge of your day to day and slide into the elemental.
What makes your DNA?
How far back can you remember?
Can you allow yourself a history that is longer than the one in this physical body that you are currently residing in?
Can you feel the pull of the cells that existed within the lineage of your Ancestors?
Can you find your way back further, to the time before we were humans?
Crystals are formed from Stardust…
We are part of this Universe…
We are part of this planet…
The emerging life form collected from the condensation of Stardust.
Remember Your Origins
Snakey reminds us that to be born, and to collect an identity, shape and structure, we must also shed the shape, to experience a mini death, if you will.
…Then we must repeat this process again, and again… That is what it is to live.
To embrace this process, we must rise up, out of our old skins, out of our comfortable shells.
We shine with all that we choose to bring forward in this newest iteration of self.
There is no endpoint of complacency. This life is an evolutionary process that we are supposed to rise up and meet again and again.
This card is a reminder to rise up and meet whatever life is offering. Bring your newest Self. Bring the One, that can shed old beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve…
Bring the Self that is warmed by the sun and ready to act.
Bring the Self that remembers, but is not bound by the past.
Rise Up
There is Potency and Magic available in our dreams (our desires,our hopes, and in our sleep)... As we dive into the mystery that awaits us in our inner Sanctuaries, the World may be changing around us.
This card is asking you to find a space safe enough for you to dream.
If your current surroundings don’t support this deep dreaming, it may be time to find a new cave where that can happen, a place where the Earth's resources can feed you.
Transformation happens below the surface.
What transformations are taking place below your surface?
What roots are being nourished deep inside?
This is a time for us to dream our own Transformation.
Shelter In Dreamtime
Snakey says, Stand Up!
Raise your voice, rattle your tail and strike!
This is not a quiet invitation!
This is the moment to summon all of yourself in Strength, and be ready for all that life has in store.
Bring your fierceness from every possible place, inside of yourself!
Snakey is saying “don’t back down or hide any longer! If you perceive a threat now is the time to face it head on!”
Where have you been hiding?
How do you stand up for yourself?
How can you make just a little more noise?
How can you let yourself be known, just a little bit more?
Be ready to take action!