Snake Labyrinth

 

Walking the Snake Labyrinth

The snake is an ancient symbol found in many cultures. It is a goddess symbol of the divine feminine. It may signify transformation, spiritual initiation, consciousness, and healing. We use two snakes intertwined as the symbol for many modern medicine graphics. The snake can also be a symbol of evil, of things that live underground, and it connotes the unknown and mysterious.

Reflection on the divine feminine through the symbol of the snake offers us an opportunity to be reminded of the extremes of life and death, good and evil, light and dark. The Snake Labyrinth is open for walking meditations at Bonnie and Walt’s house, and appointments can be made to use this sacred space for private reflection.

There are four stages suggested for reflection during your walking meditation, and four parts of the spiritual journey you will enter within yourself:

  1. Know that God—also known as the Divine—is within you.

  2. Realize that we are all interconnected and live in God/dess’s body, the Anima Mundi.

  3. Remember that all life is sacred.

  4. Acknowledge that we are called, during this unprecedented ecological crisis, to love and care for nature and our “Common Home,” Mother Earth, in more loving, conscious ways.

As you begin on the patio, sit and take three breaths, asking for guidance and help. Second, consciously love yourself and ask to be purified as you enter the snake’s head. Light a candle, ask for healing, and pray that your clouded vision is lifted as you continue on the white stones.

When you reach the center, sit and write out the names of all those you need to forgive and save them for the chapel. Also, write down your resentments and fears and place them in the bonfire.

As you continue walking toward the tail of the snake, reflect on the sacred nature of all that is alive in the cosmos. When you arrive at the tail, you are invited to sit and pray or meditate on healing and transforming your relationship with all creatures, Mother Earth, and the cosmos itself.

We also invite you to consider painting a beloved animal, plant, or mineral on the back wall of the Dog Chapel. To save something, we must love it. Contemplate and give thanks for the holiness of all that is alive and for the cycles of birth, death, and rebirth.