{"id":63,"date":"2013-06-29T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2013\/06\/snakes-snakes-snakes\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:05","slug":"snakes-snakes-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/29\/snakes-snakes-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakes, Snakes, Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am afraid of snakes.  <\/font>When I went to Sedona years ago, my biggest concern was disturbing a snake or snakes.  <\/font>The first time I went, it was too early in the year and they were still hibernating.  <\/font>I returned in the heat of June and managed to not see any snakes other than a dead one on the interstate between Sedona and LA.  <\/font>Dead snakes don\u2019t frighten me.  <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Recently, I decided to take a ride on the nearby bicycle trail.  <\/font>It just so happens to run through or alongside the bayou.  <\/font>My concern when I began was for my safety, being a lone female on what, at that point, seemed a secluded area.  <\/font>However, as I continued to pedal, I felt intermittent large drops of rain falling on my arms.  <\/font>It was so intermittent that I thought the drops were more flukes than rain.  <\/font>As I continued, the drops fell a little more frequently (still intermittent) and I realized the secluded bicycle trail might not be the best place to be when a deluge fell and lightning began to strike.  <\/font>With that in mind, I turned around in a panic and was pulling a Lance Armstrong in order to get back to the shelter options of civilization.  <\/font>It was at that point when my senses were in a state of alarm, that I also saw a snake slithering its way across the bicycle path.  <\/font>I was already freaked out at the thought of being caught in the middle of nowhere outdoors in a thunderstorm and the snake just put me over the edge.  <\/font>I was already in Lance Armstrong mode but was struggling to figure out if the snake would\/could potentially strike me as I blew past him.  <\/font>For me, this was a major quandary.  <\/font>Momentum cured the quandary because I just kept going, the snake stopped moving and I successfully passed him on my way to the safety of civilization and shelter.  <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>The bicycle path is on indefinite hold.  <\/font>I decided it would be in my better interest from a safety standpoint to ride with others than to ride alone.  <\/font>I just need to put forth the effort to find a group that rides or find someone who would be willing to ride with me.  <\/font>In the meantime, I\u2019ve meandered around in the general vicinity and each time, I\u2019ve run across a snake (not literally).  <\/font>These other snakes have been dead, so, no fear there.  <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>After seeing so many snakes, I decided to look up the symbolism for snakes and have been trying to incorporate that information in my current life situation.  <\/font>From what I\u2019ve read, snakes symbolize healing and transformation.  <\/font>I recently decided to focus more on my Reiki self-practice so that I can work from a place of better clarity as to what I should be doing.  <\/font>After having seen the snakes, I feel confirmation that I\u2019m on the right path.  <\/font>I had an ambitious idea regarding practicing Reiki on others but have not had the conversation that needs to happen \u2013 yet.  <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Years ago, I had a dream involving snakes.  <\/font>In that dream, the snakes were friendly and almost pet like.  <\/font>The dream was so surreal that I believed my fear of snakes was gone.  <\/font>It may in fact have diminished since then.  <\/font>The fear of the snake on the path may have been a product of my heightened sense of danger regarding being out in a potential thunderstorm mixed with the fact that I recognized the turmoil I was in could have been interpreted as aggression by the snake.  <\/font>Just as a dog can sense fear, so too do other animals \u2013 snakes especially \u2013 sense the state of mind we are in.  <\/font>Someday maybe I\u2019ll see if my snake fear is gone.  <\/font>However, that someday will be a day when I am in a calm, centered state of mind…<\/p>\n

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I am afraid of snakes.  When I went to Sedona years ago, my biggest concern was disturbing a snake or snakes.  The first time I went, it was too early in the year and they were still hibernating.  I returned in the heat of June and managed to not see any snakes other than a … Continue reading Snakes, Snakes, Snakes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidien"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I am afraid of snakes.  When I went to Sedona years ago, my biggest concern was disturbing a snake or snakes.  The first time I went, it was too early in the year and they were still hibernating.  I returned in the heat of June and managed to not see any snakes other than a…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}