Dear Tony,
Thank you for your reply! Thank you for your insights and for the connection with the previous snake dream. Speaking of teaching, I wanted to share some amazing things that have happened and that I just discovered in relation to this dream.
First, I rather randomly ran across an opening for an instructor position at the school where I teach for a course on the art of Africa. I have been feeling my mother so strongly this past month and have had numerous conversations where friends have spoken to me of the incredible legacy she left and have encouraged me to continue in that direction. I culled my library recently and primarily kept my books on African art, ones she gave me, and I remember saying to myself, I wish I could just spend my time teaching about African art and go back to my roots and focus on the love I have for the art forms across the continent....!
Then, I saw the ad, applied, and was offered the job on Thursday! So I have been in crazy mode to get ready since the semester starts next week. Well, today, I ran across an article on the concept of "twoness" in Yoruba art. And guess what? It talks about two pythons (or two-headed python), and how this represents abundance and the Yoruba goddess Osumare, the rainbow goddess, that her rainbow encodes a message from Olodumare to his mother! Alice Coltrane has a beautiful song "Galaxy for Olodumare" that I play for my students every semester.
Babatunde Lawal:
"The Yoruba deity that immediately comes to mind is Osumare, who appears as the rainbow and whose symbol is the python (ere). Frequently represented as a pair of serpents or a single serpent with two heads, Osumare is associated with wealth and prosperity. Curiously, the word mare ('the immense, infinite, or eternal') appears in both Osu-mare and Olodu-mare. One folk explanation of the rainbow is that it encodes a message from Olodumare to his mother (the python?) in the underworld."
Can you believe it? And I have been also getting the two of cups *a lot* this past week in my tarot readings for work projects, the Rider Waite deck with the two snakes twisting up the center. I remember that I had the dream of two cobras sometime ago except that time, they killed someone....
My mother used to appear as elephants (which she loved in life)...speaking of the message to the mother, perhaps she or the angels she sent are coming as snakes, encouraging me for the teaching as you have done....There hasn't been one negative tarot reading for this job despite how nervous I feel about preparation for it, all positive, like "chance of a lifetime" positive....
And I have been wishing secretly that I could do work in everyday life that is of a spiritual nature, that I could push the transformative and helpful aspects of my work further...so your comments really resonated with me.
Ah, I'm so overwhelmed with all of this! I am trying to breathe calmly to process the intense transformation of the last weeks.
Thank you, Tony, for the forum to share these dreams and for your beautiful insights. I have learned so much from you and your website and am so thankful for the way that sharing my dreams has helped to illuminate other connections.
Peace, light, love,
Xochitl