Serpent Sanctum has always carried a mission of offering the healing medicine of Serpent Energy to women everywhere, supporting divine sisterhood, feminine leadership, and creative empowerment. We are delighted and honored to be dancing forward into the activation of this vision, joining Aya Iwasaki, of AyaPapaya and facilitator of Ancient Voices and Prayers of the Womb […]
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To Dream of Serpents
One of the serpent’s favorite ways to communicate their powerful medicine is through the visionary realms of dreamtime… When a snake chooses to enter one’s consciousness in this way, it is a powerful messenger with wisdom to share. In our dream state, we are often more receptive to the subtleties and whispers of our serpent guides […]
Asking for Permission
Try this—using your mind’s eye, imagine a room. It can be cluttered or spacious, light or dark, with windows or doors and furniture as you please. Visualize it clearly, noticing everything in the room. See all the details and greet each object with your thoughts. Notice that however full you’ve envisioned this room, you likely […]
Healer, Heal Thyself
By Serpent Sanctum on January 31, 2018 in Full Moon, Health & Wellness, Serpent Care, Serpent Sanctum, Serpents
Like the Goddess I serve, I am known by many names, and I walk the earth in many forms. Yoga teacher. Clinical psychologist. Dreamworker. Two-spirit. Tantrika. Dancer. Scientist. Snake lady. Modern day priestess. Medical researcher. Woman gone wild. You can call me Summer. This is the story of how I got here, and the answer […]
To Everything There Is A Season
By Serpent Sanctum on January 4, 2018 in Full Moon, Health & Wellness, Offerings, Ritual, Serpent Sanctum
Welcome back, sunshine! As the days lengthen in the new year, we are leaving behind the darkness of winter solstice. At this time, we have an incredible chance to reclaim this light and energy in new ways. What will you do with all the new hours of the day? Old patterns may be left behind—if […]
Thinning the Veil: Samhain 2017
Samhain (pronounced SAH-win or SOW-in) is a Gaelic-Celtic pagan festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, beginning the “darker half” of the year. We are encouraged to turn our efforts inward to examine our Shadow places. As the old year passes and the new begins, we can see this time of darkness as the conception […]
From the Sourceress Herself
My name is Rose Mary, and I CHOOSE TO CLAIM MY POWER. I choose this path because I am a powerful being. I choose to use my power for the highest good and I refuse to let my power be used for ill through complacency. I’m tired of suffering, I’m tired of causing pain, I’m […]
Tiamat: The Original Mother of Dragons
Tiamat is one of the earliest known serpent goddesses in world mythology. Little is certain about her mythos today—too much has been lost in the 7,000 years since she was worshipped in ancient Babylon. But in the long-ago days, Tiamat was honored as the primordial goddess of the salt sea, the Waters of Chaos. Mother […]
Sensual Serpents
Deep in the jungle, they remain perfectly still, waiting hours or even days until the perfect moment. In the dark savannah of Africa, they wait hidden in comfortable dens beneath the ground the earth and strike upward at unseen prey. In the caves of Cuba, they even hang upside down to catch flying bats out […]
What is Ritual?
“It is from the primal world that living faith arises.” ~Larry Harvey What is Ritual? It’s a simple word—yet many of us struggle to define it, feeling uncertain or even argumentative about how it should be defined. Some people use the word confidently and easily, while others feel uncomfortable and even threatened […]