Red Serpent - Mayan Astrology

Hi Ashley!!

This is for you - and all the other Red Serpent's out there!

Wow, Ashley...I just typed out the Qualities! Look at those - they certainly do reflect your dreams. (integration, intimacy...)

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Red Serpent

Qualities: vitality, passion, sensing body wisdom, motivation, desire, instinct, creativity, serpent, kundalini, integration, purification, intimacy.

"I am the flint and tinder of the sacred fire," reads the meditation for Red Serpent. In the Great Mystery, flint and tinder represent the instinctive combustion that initiates movement in the physical body toward union with Spirit. When flint and tinder are brought together, the spark of divinity awakens and ignites the fire of your essence. Red Serpent invites the purifying spark of the sacred fire, the kundalini, to align and integrate your body, mind and spirit. Red Serpent can help you uncover apparent blockages in specific chakras to clear an align them. If you are working on a process of purification, invite Red Serpent to assist you.

Red Serpent's symbol is the serpent, representing healing and wholeness. This Mayan medicine can remove toxins, rejuvenate and transform dis-ease. Red Serpent is also known by the Maya as the kultanlilni, or kundalini, the energy that moves up from the base of the spine and out through the crown chakra. There are two aspects of this force, the ida and the pingala, representing its male and female polarities. (*eeeek! your dream!!) One of the ancient secrets of Red Serpent is the activation of higher states of consciousness through balancing these two polarities so that they dance within us as one. (yay!! That's happening with you!) Another metaphor for this serpent energy comes from the Mayan words luk umen tun ben can, or "those absorbed by the serpent of the sacred knowledge." When the seven chakras are fully activated, one experiences an enlightened state.

Red Serpent represents the basic structural apparatus of your motivations, instincts, desirse, and your innate movement toward wholeness. Red Serpent asks you to shed the skin of your past and step into the fires of alchemical transmutation (*the salamander in Alchemy). In this, rebirth is revealed. (*Red Serpent is sooo Scorpionic and Plutonic!) This desire is an innate response encoded in the depths of your being.

With the energy of Red Serpent, you learn to use the innate intelligence of the body. In this culture you may have become separated from this wisdom. It works like this: when you suppress and ignore your issues, your body receives and retains the unconscious metaphors of that which is ignored. This may be expressed through physical symptoms that bring your unconscious issues to conscious awareness. When this happens, work toward a more conscious relatonship with your body - and work with the physical metaphors in order to heal yourself on ALL levels.

The body has a specific kind of consciousness through which messages are clearly delivered. In fact, the body itself is a living metaphor that mirrors your mind, emotions and spirit. However, the body also remembers all it has experienced, and consequently holds the consciousness of the past within it, including past wounds and traumas. In healing these, remember the innocence of your body. Treat it with love and respect. Open yourself to be aware of its messages and metaphors rather than storing them. Be willing to look at the positive intent beneath any symptoms or physical process your body is using to communicate. Explore whatever it may be asking you to see.

In this alignment process, you can use images or energies that come to you in meditation or dreams. Journey through your body to catalyze and explore any sensations, colors, shapes, or images. In these times we have a profound opportunity to transcend both our physical and our spiritual genetics. The body's integration provides an unparalleled opportunity for personal evolution. Learn to expand and utilize your senses to access your body's wisdom and vitality. Don't 'think' about it; simply allow your body to SENSE intuitively the solutions necessary for change and growth.

Red Serpent also represents the connection between powerful physical/ecstatic experiences and the light of higher consciousness. This is an initiation of awakening THROUGH the body and senses, rather than in negation of them. As Jose Arguelles says in The Mayan Factor, "Like the Maya, we shall understand that the path to the stars is THROUGH the senses." Within the body are held the keys to fully awakening our consciousness. This deeper understanding is expressed in tantric practices, where spirituality and sexuality are integrated and honoured as a means to enlightenment. Red Serpent represents the integration of mind, body and spirit.

Red Serpent is associated with the sacred tools of the drum and the rattle. Drums and rattles can break down old patterns or bring energy into alignment.

The number of Red Serpent is five, the vibration of CENTER. In Red Serpent, your center is represented by the central axis of your spine, around which universal energy spirals. This bar symbolizes the human foundation within the individual self, the foundation from which wholeness is awakened. FIVE also represents the human hand, the grasp of humanity.

The colour of Red Serpent is flaming vermillion, representing passion, vitality and the fires of purification. The Mayan word for this red-orange energy is chacla. It is the colour of awakening and endurance, the colour of molten lava. This colour can help the nervous system prepare for higher states of consciousness. If you wish to access this energy, visualize the colour of red-orange flames.

Ashley - the nervous system is ruled by Uranus! You ARE preparing your nervous system for higher states of consciousness! wooooo! Now listen to this Harmonic Wisdom! It's like the playing of the already known 'tape' in your dream!


Harmonic Wisdom of Red Serpent
The harmonic wisdom of Red Serpent is tempo, the rate at which a given piece of music is played. This rate of natural unfoldment is found in the tempo set by the intrinsic nature of each organism. Every living thing has an 'internal clock', a natural rhythm of spiritual unfoldment much like that encoded in a seed. The natural timing for the dance of the kundalini serpent is as unique as the timing for the opening of any blossom.

In musical terms, Red Serpent represents the harmony of the fifth, which contains the paradox of resolution and point of departure. Resolution and integration have to do with completing a stage of growth. The fifth tone gives the listener a feeling of satisfaction that the chord is whole or complete, yet it also represents a point of departure: from the fifth radiates every association within the entire tone complex, like a web extending indefinitely from a central point."

Ashley - weren't you talking about the Web today!!??

***Taken from the book The Mayan Oracle***

Amazing....

What do you think???

love Tracey




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