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CHICCHAN: SERPENT

One of the great gifts of the serpent is its

ability to outgrow its skin and to leave it
behind. We human beings tend to cling to
outmoded parts of ourselves. We are afraid
to let go of what has served us in the past
but no longer has a use. We are afraid that
we might need it to keep us safe and secure
in the future. We are afraid to risk the danger
of being vulnerable and raw. We are afraid to
be without what once protected us, even
though it is worn out and unable to meet the
needs of the present. It takes great courage
to go to the edge of what we know and to
choose to venture out beyond it.

In the process of shedding, the serpent is at

its most vulnerable. For a time it must
become immobile and almost completely
unable to fend for itself. It must put itself in
an uncertain position in order that it may
grow. It must find a quiet place and allow the
transformation to occur. Often it will rub itself
against a rock or a tree, just as we might find
ourselves coming up against an obstacle that
causes friction and discomfort. It could be a
relationship or a situation that causes more
pain than we can endure any longer, and that
becomes our motivation to shed the past. It
might be a feeling of hunger for something
new, something more that opens us to
change. It might be a dissatisfaction with life
as we know it that urges us to move. But
however life signals to us that we are ready
to grow, we must decide whether or not we
are willing to shed the past. Unlike the
serpent who will automatically respond to its

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own inner necessities, we are the ones who

decide whether or not we will move forward
with what is wanting to happen within us, or
whether we will close down and not allow
expansion to come to us at all.

Be like the serpent, shed what no longer

serves you and move forward into the
expanded life that calls you to grow.

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