In downtown Asheville on a Friday night, you will find a guy with a boa constrictor that you can ask him to hold, for a tip in his money jar.
My son and I like to go downtown from time to time on a weekend night, as locals, and do the things that tourists do. And I love to hold the boa.
My teenage son does not.
A few years ago, I wanted a pet snake. A friend of mine knew a young woman who rescued snakes and had her own traveling reptile exhibit, and she graciously invited me into her home while she brought out one snake at a time so that I could “feel” which snake was right for me before I adopted my own.
Honestly, the bigger the better.
The little ones were writhy and beautiful, but not my type. The python was gorgeous and I had a surprisingly easy time holding it, but it also didn’t really do anything for me. There wasn’t any “spark.”
Then, she brought out the boa. Bigger and fatter than the guy’s downtown. I was standing on her deck and she placed it around my shoulders and as it began to cling to my body, I got full, full body chills and felt a surge of what I’d call eros or life force, and I fucking loved it. It was one of the best feelings of my life.
After she put them all away, she sat me down and asked me what I’d noticed.
When I told her, she agreed. “You’re a boa girl,” she said.
There is a woman, London Angel Winters, who lived in LA and had three giant serpents that were essentially used therapeutically with women. (I’m using past-tense because to my knowledge she does not have her snakes since becoming a mother and moving.) I really wanted to do something like this and had a zoom call with London in 2020.
I told her some of my snake stories and she said, “Yep, you’re one of us.”
I never got a snake. Not yet, anyway. And I wanted to name my snake Holiday, but when my son said that he’d never live with a giant snake, we got a warm-blooded dog in 2021 and I gave her my serpent name.
Come to think of it, I have always said she reminds me of a dragon…
THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON:
I think many of us were excited for 2024 as the “Year of the Dragon.” It’s intriguing, enticing. We started the year out in January with all sorts of high hopes about what this mysterious and mystical creature might bring to our lives, symbolically and for some, as a literal emergence of dragon energy from the earth.
The dragon symbolizes freedom, empowerment, sovereignty, prosperity, transformation and more.
There are prophecies of the dragons’ return, and indeed, in my own visions I’ve been in touch with dragon energy. It seems to happen more and more all the time.
The Prophecies of the Emerald Covenant say that when the earth was hijacked by negative frequency beings, stealing the power from the energy centers and disrupting our heart-centered nature, the dragons went underground to preserve the true codes of Unified Creation. There they remain until humanity's consciousness ascends to a level where the dragons can awaken and the grid lines of the earth can rehabilitate and sustain a crystal heart grid network, ensuring planetary ascension and advancement. This is what "unity consciousness" refers to.
The dragons will come back for that.
But what does this depend on?
It depends on our awakening. And not just a spiritual awakening "up and out" of our bodies, but a planetary awakening in conjunction with the sovereign earth body herself.
To me, the reawakening of the feminine through the earth and the felt-sense experience primarily in women are key to this awakening of the dragons. I often see the Dragon Mother in the earth next to a golden womb, like an egg.
She's good down there. She's waiting for us.
As we round out into the final quarter of the year, what is in my awareness is that 2024 has for me, once again, been the year of the serpent, which I see now leads to the dragon.
And I keep intuiting: Before we can run, we must walk. Before the dragon, we must heal our relationship with the serpent.
Before we can really get to the magic of the Dragon, we have to walk with the Serpent.
Serpent is a gateway to Dragon.
If the Dragons have been dormant within the Earth, which feels true to me, and they won't show themselves or their power again until humans are ready, when we have appropriately descended into the earth, the psyche, and the remembrance which activates the Dragon energies. We have to descend into the primordial feminine aspects of Creation.
We can not meet the etherial Dragon by romantically ascending upwards into some la la land of easeful reunification with one of the greatest forces (if not the greatest force) of Creation.
No, we have to go down. And Serpent takes us there.
WHEN THE SERPENT CALLS:
I left a traditional career in early 2018, and I refinanced my house by the skin of my teeth, just in time for it to float the first year of this entrepreneurial venture.
It was March and I had bought tickets to a writing workshop in Portland the previous August, with no idea if I would actually be able to go or not, but it was a dream of mine to go to this Corporeal Writing workshop with Lidia Yuknavitch.
The workshop just so happened to fall two weeks after my education career ended, rather abruptly, and rather misogynistically.
But the bank deposited the $45,000 and I could get the AirBNB and plane tickets just in time, and off I went, rereading my copy of The Chronology of Water on the plane ride out.
And also on the plane, I got this rather odd spiritual “download” that I should get a tattoo of a snake. Maybe even while in Oregon.
And my first thought was, “I am two weeks out from being a school principal. How in the world can I rationalize something so extreme?” I kind of liked the thought, but I dismissed it as a rather crazy idea, but I did think about getting a tattoo while in Portland and when I landed, I began to look around for shops. (Note: I was trying to “think” it through…)
Long story shorter, it wasn’t working out for me to find the right fit tattoo shop, and then I was in a health food store and a worker had a rose tattoo nearly identical to the one on the inside of my right bicep. I was on the other side of the country, but we had matchy tattoos, so I stopped her and asked her who did her tattoo and showed her mine. She said her friend had done it, she picked up her cell phone, called him in the grocery aisle, and he just so happened to be booked out for four months but had a cancellation the following evening.
Great! It was working out! But I was just going to get the nice image of the lotus pod (fertility) and the crescent moon (intuition) and not get the snake. The snake would be too much, I decided.
The next day, on Saturday morning, I hung up the phone from an early morning coaching session before getting ready for the first day of the writing workshop and then later my tattoo appointment. It was going to be a big day. The coaching session had been about my relationship with my mother, and with THE Mother, and as soon as I hung up the phone and before I could make another move, something started to yell at me.
It was the screamiest clairaudient message I’ve still ever had to date, and it was definitely feminine and definitely a bit pissed. Or shall I say, stern.
She yelled, “If you do not tattoo this serpent on your arm, then YOU continue to deny the feminine. If you do not put a serpent on your arm, then YOU continue to deny eros. No need to worry about anyone else - YOU.”
So I texted the guy and said, “Um, we need to actually add a serpent to this tattoo.”
And later that evening, I gave Her the length of my left arm.
FEMININE AWAKENING:
It is not uncommon whatsoever for women waking up to the truth of who they are to be visited by the symbolism of the serpent.
This just happened for a client of mine, or rather, to a woman who became a client after serpent began visiting her. (Coincidence? I think not.)
When serpent medicine visits, it is a wonderful sign. I mean, surely, it is an activation, and as in the case of my tattoo decision, your devotion may be tested. If you say you want to know the feminine, then serpent is a sure guide.
It is also not uncommon for us to fear this, for all the bad reputation a snake gets. And also because, yes, they carry a particular potency. Some even carry venom. Snakes evoke both primal and conditioned responses, both positive and negative, and it’s up to us to navigate the difference. They also evoke our deep psyche, a place of Sacred Remembrance as we answer the call to remember the truth of the feminine and feminine power.
Collectively, we have similar reactions to the serpent as we do to the true depth of the feminine.
In my life of late, I’m calling this the “primordial feminine.” When I sense “primordial,” I feel something ancient and a lot of soil/earth metaphor arises. I go into the soil, into the pungent and fecund nature of Earth. I go into the unknown, the depths, the soulful spaces between soil particles. I go to the felt-sense of water, soil and Earth. And I feel my body as that. I feel at One with the Earth in this way.
I was recently in a circle of conscious people and one man admitted, “I feel very afraid of the depths of the feminine. I feel afraid of that darkness.”
And so “primordial” and “darkness” are equated. And “dark feminine” and “feminine.” And this makes many uneasy - male and female alike. “Dark” we often equate with “bad,” and as one wise woman in the Sacred Remembering Community recently mused, “We’re told that we go up to Heaven, and down to Hell.” And there you have it. Masculine/spirit/air/up equals heaven, and feminine/earth/matter/down evokes in the subconscious a worry of danger. A fear of destruction. A fear of the unknown.
Collective religious programming tells us that in order to live a righteous life, we must ascend into heavenly realms, to increase our heavenly relationship with, particularly, God the Father, and to absolve ourselves of earthly sins, primarily those of the body. (Eve represented a bit later in this post.) So the descent, the embracing of our own feminine (regardless of gender), the reclamation of eros as holy, and the courage to debunk that the Earthly body is limited to spiritual ascension is all very courageous indeed.
Many humans will choose to avoid this unknown, and may never touch it until death. The call and invitation into the void and the feminine is simultaneously alluring and frightening, beckoning and yet, uncharted in that we must each go there with our very own souls.
We’ve ignored the deep feminine for so long that I sense the collective consciousness is heightening in its simultaneous yearning for her and the fear of the destruction that is inevitable if we do not heed her.
We (collectively) feel that we will be destroyed if we actually go there, and yet the truth is, we ensure our destruction only if we do not.
What would have happened if I had said “no” to the voice that called me to honor Her through the serpent tattoo? I don’t want to know. I do know that in the years since, when I have forgotten to align with Her, my life has gotten harder and all manner of miracles, intuition, creativity and genuine impulse thwarted. Just because I said yes once does not excuse me from saying yes to Her over and over again.
It is my responsibility. I would say, it is our responsibility.
WHAT IS SERPENT ENERGY:
In recent months, I have these regular visions of giant, up-close serpent’s nostrils. I’ll dream about it, see it in meditations, and given the repeat occurrence of it, I trust it’s both important and also that I haven’t fully gotten the message yet.
So I look up the anatomy of a serpent’s nostrils. They use them for taking oxygen into their lung(s) and as part of the mechanism that allows them to smell, and most importantly for my mystical inquiry, to sense.
I am fascinated by a serpent’s close relationship to the Earth. Her belly continuously glides over the parts and pieces of Nature and she deeply feels each and every one. She knows the aroma of the soil, she knows life within the soil and tucked into the fecundity of an earthly den.
She is moved by air. If air, the breath, is Spirit, she takes it into her body to propel herself forward. She moves, as do you and I, by the force of the breath. The air/breath/Spirit move her spinal, winding body across the Earth, sensing all the while.
She can detect danger or prey and act accordingly. She does not hesitate, as humans do, to know her place, purpose or power. She is primal. She will do what she must, she will do what she senses to do.
This is why she reminds me of Eros. She is moved by impulse, by life moving through her, by the propulsion of what she needs and even desires.
This appeals to some. It frightens others.
We were taught, with those religious overlays, that the serpent is evil, dark, dangerous, and not to be trusted. It was, supposedly, the misguiding force whispering in Eve’s ear in the Garden of Eden.
I’ve contemplated, as I’m sure you have, what this really was. The workings of a theory that I seem to like best is that the serpent was not evil at all, but the force of Creation (perhaps Eros) urging Eve to not forget her own Nature (not unlike the serpent yelling at me to get the tattoo, now that I think about it).
The story/myth says that Eve was fashioned from Adam’s ribs. It (the story) designed her to be oriented toward Adam, dependent on him, fashioned of him. I don’t believe that this is a real Creation story at all, because in the years of Sacred Remembering that I’ve done around masculine and feminine, I find that one of the greatest overlays of patriarchal programming poisoning our collective is that of “man as provider.” Man is provider in a system that gives men false authority over all resources - the bible calls it “dominion.” This does not compute in my organic system of Woman because Mother is the first and eternal provider of life. The womb, the breast, this is Nature’s provision. So here Eve is, whether Eve was ever a real woman or a mythical symbol, designed in false orientation to serve Him, and only him.
My guess is that the serpent was not having this. Thank God.
The Garden of Eden was a space and symbol of Holy Creation. There were many then and are many now who want to usurp the ways of Nature and God’s Holy Unified Creation. They existed right there in the Garden of Eden, at my best guest, and they were beings with reptilian DNA, and this, in the defense of my dear serpent, is where the story gets jostled. (Well, one of the many places.)
Look up Enki and Enlil. There was interference in the Garden of Eden, or in those edenic timelines on Earth, and there were nefarious forces. They were reptilian and were responsible for mass hybridization on the planet. And, they were not the serpent.
The serpent is a creature of Creation. A part of the whole. A serpent, a reptile by biological classification, is not evil. That which seeks to destroy Creation is evil. My dear erotic serpent with her belly on the ground is not that.
So this overlay, this mind trap, that makes us afraid of the serpent and willing to curse the messages of the serpent could very well be the primary and original attempt to keep us from tapping into a primal power, and feminine power. I believe that this is true.
I believe that the serpent that whispered in Eve’s ear was reminding her of passion, of eros, to not give over her power, to not submit to the false Creation story.
And I feel that this story is an opportunity for us all to examine the symbols, the supposed sin, the various interpretations.
There is no true Creation that seeks to subdue the feminine, nor fashion it to serve the masculine in totality, nor seeks to subdue the primal forces of Creation as run through each woman or creature in God’s Creation. Only false and anti-life attempts to usurp Creational forces do that. That is what has been occurring on Earth for over twenty thousand years. It’s so much bigger than we think, the tactics for distraction are everywhere, the crimes of misogyny, sexual misery, pedophilia, and more, and I’m telling you now that a woman eating an apple to feel pleasure was not the cause of that, but it can be the antidote, should we choose to reclaim it.
FEAR AND PERSONAL POWER:
I’m walking with this deep realization lately that the feminine, embodied, can equally create and destroy.
I imagine it’s a point all women have to come to on their own. When we shed the layers and layers of nice-girl and religious programming, and begin to embrace our nature, potentially with Serpent as Guide.
There was recently a massive flood during Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina where I live. There has been mass destruction in a region that does not get hurricanes. And I have sat with the primordial feminine in the Earth here and I can feel her ability to be destructive, I can feel her warnings for having ignored her, and I can feel her primordial nature which is both love and death. Creation and destruction. Cycles of the innate feminine, and of life.
I watch how I myself have loved, how I have lived. Somewhat courageously, somewhat carefully. But certainly not in my full serpent-inspired power.
Over the years since the serpent tattoo, I experienced a lot of fear. And quite honestly, a lot of attack from counter-forces that did not want me to stand in that power. I experienced fear of men, extraction, financial devastation, failure, and loss. The more I stepped out, it seemed, the more counter-interference I experienced. Now, without going into those details here, what I will say was that I became more afraid, as massive things happened such as losing housing multiple times. Or, that the tendrils of fear I had always held in this patriarchal world strengthened their hold.
I didn’t want to be the woman to experience failure or defeat, but I did become that woman.
Strength and power are something that we hone, as women, with age and experience. It's not what we initially think it is and we have the opportunity to become more embodied as we integrate the cycles of life and death into our continuous experience.
There is so much spiritual whitewashing and gaslighting in the feminine/masculine online space, for example telling women to just “open and receive” and to just “surrender to the masculine.” A lot of my work, writing and teaching has addressed these harmful messages, because it is not safe for a woman to presume that if she become soft, demure, and submissive that somehow life and the divine masculine will treat her right.
A woman can truly and fully surrender when she also has reclaimed her full ability to create and destroy. They go hand in hand. They must, or it just becomes another shit show of feminine extraction, attracting more consumptive energies that leave her feeling once again taken from.
She must be able to channel serpent to feel eros, to create. And she must be able to stand in an embodied power to say no, to destroy false programming that has been historically used against her.
If she is able to do that well, then she will love just as fiercely.
And part of the reason that women are even afraid to stand in this power is because it doesn’t come easy. It rocks the boat, upsets marriages, causes destruction. So she stays quiet and docile, being the peacekeeper in the household, continuously giving of herself, struggling with depletion, and wondering why she’s not honored. I know because these women are my clients and these are their stories.
Many women, even after they’ve begun an awakening journey, stall when serpent and dragon call. They shrink at their own power. Some even choose sickness and death, health crisis after crisis, financial crisis, creational crisis, relational crisis - rather than embracing this serpent medicine deep down to the soul. (And the soil.)
To awaken the dormant serpent force is to call back the full spectrum of her feminine power. And that commitment, that relationship, can take her even deeper to the Dragon forces of Creation that literally depend on her Sacred Remembrance at this time in order for the true tones of Creation to flourish. So it’s not that the dragons are coming to save you, my love, it’s that you have to awaken this dormant power within and show them that you can be trusted with this energy to flow through you.
This is right-use of creational power.
So when serpent shows up, we can embrace it and crack the egg that’s been dormant for millenia, or we can face our own death - soul or otherwise.
THE RESOURCE SERPENTS:
In periods when I have lost too much life force to fear, when I’ve strayed too far, She returns.
At the beginning of 2024, I began making clay serpents. I hadn’t nurtured my relationship with clay in over fifteen years, losing this soul-satisfying activity to the more formal professional endeavors of life, especially after the birth of my son.
Remembering that I would have been a ceramics major in college if I had not gotten pregnant with my daughter in my freshman year of college, I realized how deeply important it was for me to return to clay. This event entwined both sexual shame and incredible loss, as she was created through my embodiment of primal sexual energy and then adopted at birth. So my eros had created incredible pain, and I poured myself into high-performance endeavors thereafter, none of which were truly nourishing.
So I intuitively returned to clay at the start of this Dragon year and I began doing something I’d always wanted to do - sgraffito - and the serpents emerged as I scraped the black underglaze away from the white clay.
Each serpent had an egg.
Now, this is the deep psyche. The call to create, and also, I did not know with my prefrontal cortex why each snake had an egg, or even why they were called “Resource Serpents.” But I was to make them, and I was to keep making them.
Friends and members of the Sacred Remembering Community urged me to continue. They said, “I’d buy those” and “You should make a card deck” and so they are now for sale on my website, and I have been writing 44 channeled messages that can become a card deck, all about women’s relationships to our resources and this primal force. I have a verbal agreement with an artist, Rose Zabelle, who will make the images (the same artist whose images you’re seeing in this blog.) It’s all just happening, through this creative force. Nothing is forced or done for productivity, but rather, through a soul process and for the sake of creation.
My job is to trust it, to not overthink it, and to keep making clay serpents. When I get stuck and think too much, I have to roll out more clay.
I have to stay down in it.
At one point, the #resourceserpents guided me to begin painting the eggs Gold. This was coming in tandem with what I was channeling about the Gold Frequency in the Earth, helping to reconstruct the Blueprint of Creation, the Dragon Lines, which carry the dragon force through the planet, and through us. Then, I started seeing Golden Dragons protecting these eggs deep in the earth.
The Resource Serpents were my activation this year further down and into the Earth, into the prima materia of Creation. From there, the Gold returns - the gold of the dragon lines in the Earth, the gold of prosperity for the feminine.
IT’S TIME TO HEED HER CALL:
We all know it’s time. We’re all facing fear, staring down the major themes in our lives that have stolen our life force and saying “No more.”
We’re growing more intolerable, and I quite like it.
Yet here, implied within the gist of what I’ve been writing about and you’ve been generously reading this entire time, is this imperative that it is time to go IN through the serpent, and to regain power in that way.
We as women do not use (should not use) our power in a power-over way. Therefore, in conjunction, we do not regain power by being in opposition to what has been taking our power. This is imperative.
It steals our life force to go banging against what has been, tearing down patriarchal structures, fighting with the little strength our nervous systems have left. We’ll kill ourselves that way.
Imagine this instead.
You develop a relationship with Serpent - animal, medicine, energy. You imagine what her body feels like being so close to the earth. You imagine the pungent aroma of earth in her/your nose. You feel that when you take air into the serpent body, your spine moves with the force of Creation. You feel the deep Earth connection. You go into the Earth. You burrow, you travel with your eyes closed, you form a relationship with the soil and all it contains.
You allow the serpent to remind you of eros, of the things that feel good and aren't sinful. You allow yourself to choose fulfillment and sensation in a healthy yet primal way. You ask yourself what you really want. You stop having mediocre good girl sex and want eros or nothing at all.
You begin to paint, or play with clay, or wraith on the ground, or take up gardening, or making homemade chocolates. You regain sensuality not so you can give it away, unless you want to, but so that you can remember what it truly feels like.
Your Earth-body awakens. Not while escaping the body, but by living through it.
You recognize that the holy nature of true embodiment invites breath, light, electricity into the soil, the matter of Creation, and that you don’t have to escape it to be Holy.
And then, as the Resource Serpents are showing me, one day, when you become so strong in this primal current, when you can feel it pulsing and you’ve transmuted your fear into this primordial feminine power, you crack the egg.
The egg of your own Creational power, within which all manner of alchemical secrets have been contained. You crack an egg that begins to create a new way - for you, for women, for creational life on Earth.
The force of you (not power-over, but the innate force of you), is naturally so strong that it makes this egg, deep in the earth, go “Crack!” (Which is, obviously, the only way this egg will ever crack.)
A golden egg, protected by the Dragons of Creation, which allows for the full resourcefulness of the feminine to be true and present on this Earth again.
Do you see how important your Sacred Remembrance of serpent is, my love? Only you can help crack the dragon egg, by being Her. By embodying Her.
Will you do it?
SACRED REMEMBERING:
There is a reason that I write these stories as part memoir, sprinkling in the esoteric information that I’ve discovered, which is precisely to share and model the process of Sacred Remembering.
This is how I know to share. This is how I feel to share. I can tell you about inner-earth Dragon Lines, I can analyze the relationship of the feminine to the serpent, or (and), I can share with you pieces of how I remembered.
And this is the point. For all of us. That we have to remember, that we can, and must, activate our own divine and embodied relationship with these forces of Creation that want to reawaken through us now. We hear the call to become ourselves, we know that it is time. Then we must listen to not only the whispers of our soul but also our primal urges that feel more sacred than sinful. We must distinguish between the urges that are addictive, greedy, consumptive or lustful (sure signs of something else at play), and become one with the embodiment of Creational forces as they seek to move through us (making art, making love, living as embodied love, dancing while feeling the body on the earth, never leaving our bodies in pursuit of what is holy, and so on.)
This is Sacred Remembering. Doing “crazy” things like talking to serpents, trusting your visions, refusing to lose yourself to external systems of control. I hope this post has inspired you today. Thank you for reading.
Sarah Poet, M.Ed is an earth mystic, mother, and an expert at remapping feminine/masculine dynamics to support a new paradigm on Earth. Work with her privately, schedule her to speak, and join the Sacred Remembering Community at www.SarahPoet.com.
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