Hello everyone and Bright Blessings. Today I want to share something interesting that has been on my mind all afternoon. Earlier today I laid down for a nap. I dreamed that I was highly upset, grieving some type of loss and frantically searching for someone I know whom appears to have either died or has been lost to me for awhile,, to pass along the message to them of "You don't have to make a choice but I hope you make the right choice and I hope it is for the right people" Now one of the thoughts I had before I laid down, was that this person seems to be someone I don't really know anymore, and I have lost them and it feels as if they have died, or the person I used to know has died in a sense, and they are lost to me. Do I really know them as well as they claim I do? Better than anyone? This thought carried over into my dream.
Now back to dream land..alternate reality..whatever it is supposed to had been..while I was looking frantically trying to find this person to give them the message, a man appeared before me, I recognized this man but in a way I did not know him, it was like I was staring at the man I was looking for and he had finally came back and I had found him, but it was still not the same person, he had grown out dark blonde hair that was pulled back and a longish goatee, and was dressed in a brown shirt and a white tank shirt underneath. He then proceeded to strip down out of his clothes and hand them to me, and then stood before me bare naked. I felt he was silently asking me to accept or recognize the person that now stood stripped bare in front of me, as if I were to either make a choice, to accept the man before me that had just changed and shed layers of who he was and bared it all to me, or not. Either way I was to make some kind of choice. I could only see the waist up, why I could not see below that wasn't revealed, as due to my son waking me up right about then and before I could give a answer and before the scene could reveal more than that. While it was probably for my own good my son came in there and woke me, there was probably a good reason for it aside from the fact that Ghost Hunters was about to be on and we were going to watch it. I have still made a note to myself that when I take a nap from now on that my blasted door is going to be locked! I cannot count how many times have I been jumped and startled awake out of a good sleep and important dream time by my well meaning but deliberately intrusive child, who seems to have the ungodliest sense of timing.
Now back to waking real life time. after I thought of this dream..the idealism of snakes came to mind out of nowhere. It crossed my mind that even as the person in my dream was shedding his clothing in front of me that I was still not allowed to see the rest, what if below the waist there was a serpent's tail, a secret being deliberately hidden away, and I was only meant to see what was being shown to me that he wanted me to see, instead of what I should have been looking for? I cannot just a make a choice of acceptance or recognize something or someone until I get the whole picture and see the entire situation and the person(s) involved for what it really is and is not. Snakes shed their skin regularly to change, grow and transform out of what they were into what they are supposed to be. I personally have a thing against snakes, as in the saying "snake in the grass" and other such foreboding things. I respect the animal and its many symbolic meanings of healing, wisdom, fertility, transformations, and so forth, but I still do not have a strong trust or have a keen liking for them. If I see one I will admire it and let it be, respect the beautiful deadliness of it, and let it go on its way and have peace,that is unless it poses a threat or a danger in some way. We here in TN have many types of poisonous snakes so its best to give any that you see a healthy distance until it can be identified.
I thought hard about the idea that even when a snake sheds it's skin..it is still a snake, it has not changed very much, it just has a shiny new skin and has grown a bit more, it might even be prettier than it was, and it maybe a enticement or seem very charming to you, you maybe hypnotized and drawn to it,mesmerized by its beauty, but you have to accept and understand that is still a snake, no matter how it has appeared to have changed. You have to make a choice whether or not you want to pick that thing up or handle it and risk getting yourself bitten. If you choose to handle it then hope and pray it is not poisonous enough to kill you or make you deathly sick or it is not the kind that will wrap you in it's embrace and crush you to death. You can handle a snake of any type or kind, even be it's friend or learn to have a certain kind of love and fondness for it, and it will have something to teach you, about shedding old skins and transforming yourself into something more than you were, and learn a lot of wisdom from the serpent, however..like most snakes, proverbial and natural, they also wait for prey to walk blindly right into their grasp, so they can strike and leave you poisoned to die, or snatch a hold of you and crush you.
The same can be said of certain kinds of men and a few women,..for how many of them wait in secret, biding their time, they have long beforehand picked out their prey and are waiting for the prey to walk too closely, so they might entice with their beauty, charm with words and gestures, keep you hypnotized by the lulling sound of their words and the way they stare at you, and right at the exact moment strike hard to inject you with their own kind of poison,and bite you repeatedly and leave you to slowly die from their deadly kind of "love", or they happen to get a hold of you, and attempt to smother you in their embrace of "love" until you suffocate and are crushed to death? Well here in the south, to alot of people the only good snake is a dead snake..you find a hoe or something sharp and chop off its head, hang its squirming body on a barbed wire fence, and wait for the rain to come while it's blood drip on the ground. I'll leave y'all to think about that.. Bright Blessings and see you all again soon!
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