Animal Guidance Series: Scorpion Medicine

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When I see animals, in person, in pictures or in videos, I love to then later research their history, characteristics and symbolism. Today's creature, the scorpion is no exception. Overall, the scorpion symbolizes death, survival, adaptation, motherhood, Third Eye intuitiveness, transformation, psychic gifts and rebirth. The ancient Egyptians respected the scorpion spirit, and saw it as a powerful guardian of souls moving from one world to the next. The Goddess Selket was accompanied by the scorpion and was ruler of healing stings and bites. It was also a very common ritual by priests during mummification to safeguard the precious spirit within using the scorpion medicine. The Scorpion was believed to grant the power of change through various transformations and reincarnation. African stories also tie the scorpion to transformation, life and death. They believed the scorpion had the power to heal. Shamans use their sting, like a mind-altering drug to take them to the spirit world and to dream time to make prophecies. In many cultures, the Scorpion has come to represent unexpected death as well. In approaching a victim the scorpion does an almost playful looking dance, reminding us to live every moment as if it is our last…living to the fullest was Scorpion medicine.

So call on the Scorpion medicine, when you need to sort things out for survival, protection, understanding death, living life to the fullest. For psychic gifts, intuition, motherhood, adaptation and survival. Call on Scorpion medicine. Call IT in With Dar!

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