Not long ago, a snake bit my neck in a dream. My response was to start eating the snake. It was like I was still myself, but was also becoming the snake eating its own tail. While participating in this dream ouroboros was strange, the meaning seems clear. The end is the beginning.
Major changes taking place in my life provide context for the message. Some things are ending. I don't see any new beginnings yet. Instead, I see difficulty and hardship. Perhaps this dream is suggesting that there's more to the story.
I'm not good at optimism. Years of chronic illness conditioned me to fear the future. But I don't recall ever having dreamed of an ouroboros before. If the dream implies that this is a significant moment, I fear that as well. My experience has been that significant usually means bad.
Despite this, the dream could be pointing toward something better. Perhaps much better. I hesitate to speculate on what that might mean. Because another thing I fear is disappointment.
A movie I recently watched featured a protagonist being bitten on the neck by a snake that was being directed by a magician. The bite conferred a mystical protection. It's not clear if the movie plot should be taken into account while interpreting the dream. But this is likely the origin of my dream's imagery.
Two weeks ago, I dreamed that I was the three of spades. The symbolism of that in tarot involves profound loss or separation. Now an ouroboros is in the mix. It's a bad omen followed by a reminder that life goes on no matter what happens. I wonder if this is the language of Western mysticism, spoken by my unconscious with unusual clarity.
Although the message seems clear, I don't really like what it implies. It comes at a time when someone close to me is gravely ill. So my personal life is troubled. And after being ghosted by two different clients recently, my professional life likewise feels uncomfortable. My experience with these kinds of discomfort is that it's easier to sit with them than to escape them. So that's what I've been trying to do.
The end is the beginning. This may be as true of every moment as it is of every lifetime. But my dream was not a standard ouroboros. It wasn't quite a snake eating its own tail. It was a snake biting a person that was eating the snake. If this has some traditional meaning, I'm unaware of it.
(Feature image from Pixabay.)
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