Tony Crisp Interpretation:
In coils of snake: feeling bound in the “blind impulses” or habitual drives and feeling responses. Instincts and habits can be redirected, as illustrated by Hercules’ labors. Sitting on snake: mastery of the instinctive nature and transformation and the making conscious of the wisdom and power resident in the unconscious. Snake biting you: unconscious worries about your health, frustrated sexual impulse, your emotions turned against yourself—as when internalized aggression poisons us, causing very real illness, so may be shown as the biting snake. It may also suggest an influence in one’s life—the venom—that takes away one’s identity and perhaps opens one to a life beyond self, the spirit. Snake biting others: biting remarks; a poisonous tongue; emotional energy turned against oneself or someone else. Snake colors—green: our internal lifeprocess directed—perhaps through satisfied feelings, love, and creativity—into a healing process or one that leads to our personal growth and positive change. White: eternal aspect of our life process, or becoming conscious of it. Blue: religious feelings or coldness in relations. Snake in connection with any hole: sexual relatedness. Snake in the grass: intuition of talk behind your back; danger; sneakiness. Snake with tail in its mouth: the circle of life— birth, growth, reproduction, aging, death, rebirth; the eternal. See death and rebirth, resurrection and the self under archetypes; Greece (ancient) dream beliefs; snake in cellar or cave in basement, cellar under house, buildings; hypnosis and dreams; jungle; paralysis. toad Deeply unconscious drives and processes, such as the biological activities to do with intestines and cells, so what we might feel squeamish about—might therefore connect with abortion; the power of life in us; a coldblooded or ugly part of ourselves. See: frog above.