Amulet Readings by NanLT

The Snake – Shedding Fear; Renewing Hope

Shedding Fear; Renewing hope

This particular amulet comes from a seal carving found in ancient Crete. It is dated back to around 2,000 BCE.

Across ancient Europe the snake was revered, but never more so tham in Crete.

It could shed its skin without dying, making it a powerful metaphor for regenerative forces. Several statues on Crete show a female figure holding a snake in each hand, often staring trance-like, as a prophetic seer.

Snake Gods can be found in many cultures around the world, including India, Egypt, China, the Scandinavian countries, Australia, Native American myths,and the Mayan culture of Mexico as well as the later Aztec.

The Snake amulet comes to remind you that you carry the wisdom of the serpent deep within you. You can address all challenges with the power of the snake within you.

The Snake often comes to a person who has faced or is facing addictions or a difficult past with courage and commitment. You have journeyed to the centre of your soul and faced the “Death Goddess”. Now you are back in the arms of the Great Mother for renewal.

Transformation never ends. The “Dark Goddess” is not an enemy. She is an integral part of the God-force flowing within everything and everyone.

Have you been cutting yourself off from your feminine power? Focusing too much on one side, without balance? It’s time to journey into the Underworld to find and reintegrate those lost pieces of your self.

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Self-Transformation

Inanna is a Goddess who was worshipped first in ancient Sumeria.

Self-Transformation

The story, “The Descent of Inanna” consists of more than 400 lines and was inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform writing approximately 4,000 years ago. It’s possible this same story could have been repeated for over 1,500 years before that in oral teaching traditions.

Inanna was called Her Awesome Queen of Heaven and Earth by those who worshipped her.

She was the Goddess of plants, animals, and fecundity of all living things.She was also a Goddess of War.

Meaning

This amulet signals that a time of self- transformation is coming.  The time is coming to face core inner issues. This can be done through asking questions, and listening for the answers.

Like Inanna hearing something from the Great Below.

From the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below.

In other words, she heard and she listened.

Let your questions guide you. The answers to each question will lead to new questions. Follow them to where they might lead.

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Strength Triumph Success

Today’s amulet – felt at the tip of my smallest finger as I inserted my hand into the bag – is the Nile River Goddess, symbolising Strength, Triumph, and Success.

This image comes from the Nile River area of pre-Dynastic Egypt and is approximately 5000 years old.

She comes today to remind me to celebrate my triumphs and successes. Look at where I have been and celebrate what I have achieved.

I set a goal last month and yesterday I reached it. To go through and update all 156 Squidoo lenses I had written. Yesterday, I completed that task. Every single lens has been updated at least once since the beginning of 2010.

I had fallen dreadfully behind in this, but today everything is fresh and renewed.

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Spider Sacred Creativity

Today’s amulet drawn was the Spider – Sacred Creativity.

I’ve kept it beside me today as I work on my Squidoo lenses, to remind me of why I am writing. Yes, it’s nice to get a bit of money each month. The biggest reason though is because it gives an outlet for one form of creativity which I have found I have a talent and a passion for – writing.

The Spider on this amulet is from a carved shelldisk found in North America. It comes from the Mississippian culture in Illinios and dates from around 1000BCE.

Spider Woman weaves the world into being.

The Spider Amulet comes today to remind me that all acts of creativity are sacred acts, are spiritual acts. Even writing about the mundane can be an act of creative spirituality, if it comes from within.

She’s a reminder of what I already was realising – it’s time to focus more fully back upon my writing, and on promoting myself.

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Whirlwinds - Trusting the Invisible

Today I have drawn Whirlwinds – Trusting the Invisible

The image is of a whirling image around a resting butterfly. It originally comes from a Central European Neolithic pottery dish, dated from around 7000BCE.

This is a symbol of movement and transformation, but also of stillness found within the center.

This amulet today is reminding me that while I may not see immediate results for the actions I have taken, things are happening. I have to trust that all will come in its own time and detach myself from the outcomes.

So what am I looking at in this regard. What areas of my life have I been making changes in?

Writing – I have been focusing more on promoting my writing. Here, the amulet is telling me to continue that focus, and to trust that positive results will come from that focus.

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