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To travel the Serpentine Road is to surrender, to surrender to fate and to let your guides direct you. Your donkey is just one of your guides. Others will appear as you travel this sometimes treacherous path.

Anon! I come with satchel and spade

Reins in hand, astride my humble steed

Wait!

I feel I have left something important behind

Methinks ….

Yes, it is… something that has held me back

For far too long…

Rigidity

Encapsulated in a wrung out skin called

Fear

It is only important because now I am left

Unencumbered by shedding the skin

Of burdens it enshrouded me with

The leaving has left me Free

Now

Ah! The new country ahead

Promises discoveries

I am of the plant world knowing

Collector of herbs and maker of medicines

Speaking the language of green things and lofty trees

There!

All is well.

I ride free now

Stella Raye 2006

Prepare before arriving at the House of the Serpents. Make a surrender box and and leave a serpents skin – something you need to surrender – at the door to the Serpentine Road.

Written by Heather Blakey

April 21, 2009 at 12:46 am

Posted in Serpentine Road, Trek to Rainbow Beach

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wise words, esp. how rigidity and fear are related – so true!

kvwordsmith

April 23, 2009 at 3:05 pm

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