The Red Thread
In the beginning of my awareness journey, I can remember back to my first shamanic breathwork, where the Red Serpent first appeared to me. Thick bodied. Blood red. Translucent. Slithering out through my vulva; from between my legs and gently down into the ground. It plunged into the deepest earth beneath my savasana body. Seeping down into the core of the crystal caves' waters. A fully embodied somatic experience. From that day forward, I’ve been curious to learn more about the serpent who appeared and what it had to share with me........
The quest to my question... What do you know about the red serpent?
If I remember back further, to being a child, that was when I first learnt of the Rainbow Serpent. I was a young white girl, a policeman's daughter, living in country NSW, within an indigenous community that was first settled by missionaries. It was a small town, Goodooga. First Nation culture fascinated me. A culture that has the deepest reverence for all of life, who endeavour to always be in harmony with the natural environment in which they live. A particular dreamtime story of the Rainbow Serpent has stuck with me since kindy class. The story is that a powerful serpent of many colours had raged upon the earth towards its people, causing great destruction upon the land and community ... before it came to lay resting underneath the ground and became a great lake. Much like the boy in the Alchemist, as I set out on the quest to my question, I followed the signs which appeared during my life and listened closely to their messages.....
The Red Thread
One time I happened to join in an evening of local kirtan singing, music and meal sharing. As this night unfolded, a moment came while I was washing the leftover dishes. In the warm outside air, I stood next to a woman, who had a passion for the womb arts. I asked her as we cleaned away, what she knew of the red serpent. I shared with her my vision and was pondering its message. She was certain it was a symbol of my blood. My inner SHAKTI energy, seeping down through the earth's cracks. My womb connection to the Mother. Ancestral Wisdoms. The Red Thread. I was left with lots to ponder......
The Serpents Stir ...
As the quest unfolded, I started to hear whispers about women's mysteries. Ancient practices. Mary Magdalan became a recurrence in my daily rhythms, which brought my attention to her manuscript, channelled & written in text by Tom Kenyon & Judi Sion. Mary shares Her Story. The ancient Alchemies of Horus & the sex magic of Isis; both Yeshua and Mary were initiated into the ancient lineages of Egypt. When I finished reading the book, something within me was awoken. Call it kundalini energy, twin flame, life force or creative energy... whatever the energy I felt pulsing within me, it was mine and I was ignited!! My internal flame was on FIRE...
Inspired by Judy Sion’s share of “One Woman's Story”, an inner calling to provide a held space for women to share their stories came to my attention. I brought in my closest sisters to gather and we journeyed in circles for many many moons; sharing through the seasons, moon cycles, manifestations, celebrations, ceremonies, rituals, adventures, retreats and a sisterhood. In my personal realm, I had begun an inner goddess journey of recovering my most essential essence; my sexual energy. I became aware of my central energy point, called chakras.
The ritual is simply an external reflection of something that is occurring deep within oneself.1
The Rainbow Serpent Key
The puzzle pieces of my quest were delivered slowly over the yearly cycles. Each piece came with small bites to digest; deep shadow phases; numerous ‘aha’ moments; and a large integration period. Bless the Goddess! What a ride... As I processed through my healing work, I came into deeper harmony and fullness inside my body. I expanded into higher spiritual realms. My curiosity along the way led me to past lives, reincarnation, death/rebirth, the sacredness of life, the inner earth, planetary chakra points, crystal caves and more!
In among all the information, signs, challenges and blessings - the Rainbow Serpent piece was
always present. It always seems to cross over to the Red Serpent thread. It had to be the key to
the answer.
Uluru
A pilgrimage of spiritual meaning arose one day. After an intense seven moon, inner goddess journey, the spirit mother of ULURU was calling. My sister, the Lore Keeper Clan Mother, organized flights, car hire, and a four day hostel stay within Yulara, Northern Territory, including a pass for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. We were there for higher connection.
It was THE best experience of my life! The reflections I uncovered from my connection there were insightful, affirming and expanding. Every day on the land in Central Australia - far removed from current culture - felt like I was home, having found the core connection to our truest nature. Our small group was conscious in choosing to walk around the mass structure. We wanted to witness her great size; we saw her blemishes, watering holes, shady caves and wildness. She continued to change and surprise us, as we made our way slowly all round (4hrs). I definitely felt the presence of the Great Mother surrounding Uluru; her strong crystal waters of consciousness pulsing underneath our feet. There in the middle of hot nothingness, She stood in abundant strength, offering cool shade and nourishment to all of life. For me, Uluru felt like our planet's centre for root energy, although dreamtime speaks of it being the solar plexus umbilical cord and rainbow snake is the direct creative expression of the divine Will of the Earth Mother.
All sources of water are a blessing from the rainbow snake. Springs, waterholes, monsoon rains and rivers are sacred to her.2
I am blessed to have laid eyes on Mala Puta, the cave of life. I could see the indent of a snake head on the top structure of the cave, showing the serpent with jaw wide open. This marks the entry point for the pathway of the rainbow snake. It surges forward, in the direction of Kata Tjuta, completing an infinity symbol of life force energy around the earth, before returning to Uluru, on the side where the sun rises. The monolith stone named Uluru; in form the Rainbow Serpent, whose ley-lines contained vital life force energy.
The hike through Kata Tjuta (masculine land) was grueling as we made our way to the valley of the winds. At the lookout, we took a moment to appreciate just how far our earth journey had taken us. It was a moment to accept a deep rebirthing, with my sisters as my witness. I shedded an outdated, unsustainable life and stepped into an empowered, sacred one. Many visions came through while exploring the red dusty lands. A significant vision I had while awake but my eyes closed was watching my feet dancing upon the red earth. I heard the sounds of corroboree around me. I felt my body moving, with heartfelt intention. An offering. A calling to the night sky. It felt vivid and real. Perhaps a past life...
After the awakenings of the global serpent in 1984 and 1987, it became possible to
complete the great ritual.... At this time, a great Ngaltawaddi cord was constructed between
Uluru and the Sun. Ritual, imagination, humans, all species and the earth spirit conspired to
create this etheric link. The great ritual will be completed in 2020 AD.3
Skeleton Woman
A profound connection with a sacred masculine that same year, brought me to my knees and awoke within me many gifts including future visions. He came from a indigenous culture, which spanned the whole world. What a whirlwind spirit!
One day he shared with me a story that I had not heard before; a story of Skeleton Woman. I
later discovered it features among other sacred feminine tales in a book called Women who
run with wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes (if you do not know the story, please take this as
a sign that it's time to hear it).
As he spoke softly into my ear, the story of Skeleton Woman, I felt myself transported into her reality by portal into the deepest of deepest watery realms; trickles of light showing the bare bones of my exposed body. I wept silently. At that moment I was aware that I had been thrown off the cliff, into the ocean. Unwanted. All used up. Now being discarded; disposed of by the patriarchy; my ex husband. The watery immersion being in my emotional depths of tears and grief for so long; my unconscious becoming conscious. My wound was now fully exposed; I had seen where my flesh once was, which now appeared just bare bone.
I was the Skeleton Woman!!
My life force had been consumed and I’d been living on empty. How did I let that happen? I set a
willful intention that day. To love and care for myself so deeply, that I discover the truth of who I
am ~ a fully embodied sovereign feminine, in my true power, creating life.
Protectress Bones
Some time later, I would lead another inner goddess journey to the sacred land of the
Amazonian Arts, reclaim my birth-print astrology, and surrender to the Shamanic Way of the
Warrioress. I would show up as a Clan Mother for the Protectress lineage and share my own
inner journey of the sacred red thread. My Ancestors. My Grandmothers, Mothers & Daughters
lineage. I would gather again on top of the Dorrigo Plateau, with my Amazonian sisters & brothers,
to realign our song lines and bring though our soul gift, during the rare planetary conjunction of
January 2020. The great ritual completed. Full circle.
The Rainbow Serpent. The Red Serpent. The Red Thread. Life Force. Creative Energy Current.
Womb Creator
Co-hosting the last Alchemist/Protectress circle for Amazonian Arts, a vision from the Red
Serpent came through. The message was to use the energy of the Red Serpent in ritual and
ceremony. I was given a vision to deeply ground our own red thread, Red Serpent, into the spirit
of the earth, Rainbow Serpent, from our creative womb space within our bodies, to the crystal
cave rivers of diamond light beneath us. The answer is our life force energy is sacred. The
Blood rites. Kapi agalyu Wanambi means “there is spiritual strength in the waters of the rainbow snake“.4
The quest to my question finally played right through, with all the pieces fitting together now. The puzzle was now complete. The Great Mothers consciousness lies below the monolith stone named Uluru; in form the ley-lines, the Rainbow Serpent, contains vital life force energy. Rainbow snake is the direct creative expression of the divine Will of the Earth Mother.
All sources of water are a blessing from the rainbow snake. Springs, waterholes, monsoon
rains and rivers are sacred to her. 5.
By Camilla
Clan Mother for the Protectress
1The Magdalen Manuscript by Tom Kenyon & Judi Sion, p.67.
2The Rainbow Serpent and the Holy Grail by Robert Coon, p.117.
3Ibid, p.105.
4Ibid, p.123.
5Ibid, p.117.