Dream:
I went to Mexico to visit family. While I was there I really wanted to take a side trip to Peru, because it's one of many places I've dreamed of going since I was little. The name sounded magical to me as a kid: Peru...
So like in all my dreams about Mexico, I cover great distances by walking. I don't know where I was exactly when the black anacondas showed up, maybe south Mexico, maybe Peru, maybe somewhere in between.
I was shopping colorful indigenous woven crafts from stores that were on a street above a muddy marsh land between the shops and a body of water in the distance. An extremely large black snake slithered inside one of the shops I was in and people went into a panic. Outside a giant colony of black anacondas had formed across the entire wetland. The shops announced they were closing for the day due to the snake takeover.
I walked outside. Thousands of long black snakes covered almost every square foot of land. I cannot emphasize enough how LONG the snakes were. I tried to walk carefully around them, but I was bit, once. The bite didn't seem to harm me though. (Anacondas have no venom. I googled it.)
I continued walking through the snake spaghetti, trying to find safety. On the edge of the soggy snake land I saw a couple of farmers. An old indigenous woman seemed to know what she was doing and wasn't afraid of the snakes. She was working in the garden, using the snakes as a natural pesticide, I think. As she bent down over a fruit or vegetable bush, a black snake docilely wrapped itself into a spiral shape beside her.
I woke up very very sweaty.
I'm happy to have had another black snake dream! The snake formed A SPIRAL! Just like the spiral pictograph the indigenous tribe left behind on the big rock where I grew up. The damn spiral that has haunted my dreams ever since, and initiated my curiosity and research about what all those ancient spirals around the world symbolize. After all my research, I still don't completely understand the meaning of the spiral, but I do now know that the earliest known Goddess was depicted as a snake.
Every time I have one of these snake dreams, it feels very special. Like a subconscious connection with a deep history. It feels like there's something important about these symbols, the snake and the spiral. Like a distant memory imprinted in my dna. But what does it mean?
When I saw very rarely seen black snakes TWICE in the wild in the past two years I nearly shat myself. I've said this a million times before but it is weird that I grew up in nature, every day playing in fields, yet never knew that exotic black snakes like the ones in my dreams actually existed here in real life.
It also feels a bit symbolic the way a giant king snake once guarded the doorway to my childhood house, in a perfect straight line.. That I almost stepped across it and it didn't even flinch. That thing was enormous and magnificent, as thick as giant pythons at the zoo. It was so big I couldn't see it's head or tail.
A lot seemed symbolic about that house. The hundred year old oak tree directly across the street that became our sacred burial site for all our animals. Oaks also being ancient symbols. And the thriving frog pond directly in front of it. It was all so ... symmetrical. I guess it also helped that my parents were both extremely knowledgeable gardeners.
And that I just happened to live near an ancient spiral rock. It's odd that I was the only one who knew about that. Even to this day, not a single person in my small town knew of that magical place until I brought them there. It's always been a secret sacred place that only I knew about, that spiral rock perched above an ancient lake, carved with hundreds of small holes for grinding acorns into tortillas before the Spanish came. It always felt eerily silent, knowing the site was once home to a thriving tribe, filled with voices, cooking, fishing, children playing, mothers with babies chatting together while making dinner under the trees. There were mud houses there once with reed roofs. Maybe they were massacred there. Maybe they slowly died of European diseases. Only the spiral survived.
8:54 a.m. - 2021-11-13