Scorpion and snake in a dream...?

Question

Morning dream lovers, I had two dreams last night that I would love help with interpreting.

To set the background, I have been writing a discipleship course and struggling with the issue of divorce and remarriage. Last night I had something of an epiphany which really helped me clear up/revise my opinion on the topic (or so I thought) but then just before I retired for the night I read another article which might have refuted the first one I read. A bit confused and really desiring to understand what God truly thinks about divorce and remarriage, I asked God to speak to me last night... I never normally remember dreams but I remember two from last night and I'm wondering if they have anything to do with this situation or if they really are just random.

Dream 1:

I was in a garden and was quite happy there until I saw a snake. Seeing the snake I climbed over the garden fence and into the garden of another house (might have been into a friend's garden but I'm not sure if that is important as it wasn't clear). As I was climbing, the snake rose up and hissed something at me - it was a real word but unfortunately I don't remember it. It was clear though that the snake wanted to come after me. After I had climbed over the fence I started running toward the house and noticed that the snake had come through a gap in the fence and was following me. I ran into the house through the open screen door and slid it closed behind me, trapping the snake (which was a black mamba) and cutting it in two. This didn't kill the snake, that much I remember but unfortunately I starting remembering stories about guards who had killed snakes with machetes and wondering if I could do the same and then the dream petered out and I was awake.

The second dream involved a scorpion. I was sitting on a sofa happily watching television (I think although I'm not sure that is important) when I felt something crawling on my back. I shook myself and turned around to see a scorpion. Seeing me, the scorpion started to crawl onto the floor and back away. I found a shoe and struck the scorpion but the shoe had a rubber sole and the scorpion was well armored so the shoe did not kill the scorpion. It then started after me. I found some Doom (a strong insect spray) and, even though I knew this wouldn't kill it, started spraying at the scorpion while I looked for a knife. I found a hunting knife and threw it at the scorpion. The knife pierced the scorpion and killed it and I then picked up the knife with the scorpion on it and remember inspecting it to make sure it was dead - it really was. Then I woke up.

Anyone think that these dreams might mean something in relation to the issue I've been struggling with?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Adziwa! “I was in a garden and was quite happy there until I saw a snake.” Clearly you are familiar with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. You have taken up Adam’s role. The biblical scene around the tree is indeed about the relationship between man and woman. The serpent is speaking to you in the dream just as the serpent in Paradise was speaking to Eve. The fact that you didn’t understand or lost what the snake had said represents your confusion about the subject you have to write about. This confusion was caused by two contradictory articles you had read before going to sleep.



The snake has a forked tongue; there is contradiction and ambiguity represented by what the snake has said to you. You know that instinctively and so you try and escape from its influence. You escape by climbing the fence of your Paradise. (Remember Paradise is a Persian word meaning an orchard enclosed by a wall – your dream fence –



You rightly say that this changing side reflects your change of mind about the subject. By escaping into the house on the other side of the fence the dream is dramatising your effort to secure a definite view point; although opposite to the first stance, you nevertheless feel now that you could at least get away from the ambiguity of the snake. Unfortunately your efforts are in vain because your very effort to exclude the snake complicates the matter and you finish up with two halves of a forked tongued creature.



All dreams are from God. You may know that the ancient interpreters of dreams were called dream-DIVINE-ers. They were called that because they knew that dreams were messages from God. Indeed you will find that in Job this is clearly proclaimed:

“For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision

of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed:

Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.” (Job 33: 14/15/16)



You see from this that dreams are not only meaningful, but actually divine commands. So do not ignore your dreams.



The snake is alive although cut in two. Your struggle is not over by a long shot. In fact it has only begun.



The message of the dream with regard to the question of divorce is clear: If you drop your first partner (your Eve in your Paradise where you are happy till the snake appears) and then look for a new partner (in the house next door) and hope that things will then be better than in the first marriage, you delude yourself because you will then have the feelings of guilt spoiling the joy of the second attempt at happiness. The snake will redouble its attack on you. You will, in other words, never get rid of the disturber of peace.



This notion of being pursued is reinforced in the second dream. You are now in the house of your ‘second marriage’, happily watching TV until you are being attacked from the back. The attacker is another poisonous creature against which you begin to make war. At first your attack is too rubbery and thus too soft. You hope that Doom would be the scorpion’s doom, but deep down you know that spraying poison would be ineffective for scorpions can even withstand atomic radiation. So you have to resort to the ancient and primitive instruments of destruction: the hunting knife. Your skill in handling this old and tried method of destruction is splendidly successful. Unlike in the case of the snake, the scorpion that wanted to spoil your ‘second marital bliss’ (watching happily TV) with stinging attacks on your conscience succumbs to your elemental approach to marriage and indeed sex.



The two dreams clearly depict your struggle of trying to resolve the question of divorce and remarriage. The snake is cut asunder, divorce followed with lots of hang-ups about it, but then you resolve to stay in the house of the second marriage and overcome your guilt by accepting the reality of your natural urges that have driven you away from the first marriage and then drawn you into a second one. God’s answer to you is: “I, the Lord have given you a wife; I, the Lord have taken her away from you and then given you a second one. I, the Lord to all these things.”



If you want to check on this parody of the Lord’s declaration, open up Isaiah 43:6-7 and read: “I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”



Take this declaration together with what I have quote to you from Job and you have an assurance that God does everything and that therefore everything that happens, happens to be right since God does not make mistakes!

Answer 2

To see a scorpion in your dream, represents a situation in your waking life which may have been painful or hurtful. It is also indicative of destructive feelings, "stinging" remarks, bitter words and/or negative thoughts being expressed by or aimed against you. Your dream forewarns of a self-destructive and self-defeating path. The scorpion is also a symbol of death and rebirth. You need to get rid of the old and make room for something new. Alternatively, the scorpion may also represent a person who is born under the astrological sign for Scorpio.





To see a snake or be bitten by one in your dream, signifies hidden fears and worries that are threatening you. Your dream may be alerting you to something in your waking life that you are not aware of or that has not yet surfaced. The snake may also be seen as phallic and thus symbolize dangerous and forbidden sexuality. The snake may also refer to a person around you who is callous, ruthless, and can't be trusted. As a positive symbol, snakes represent transformation, knowledge and wisdom. It is indicative of self-renewal and positive changes. Hope it helps!

Answer 3

In dream symbology snakes represent sex so I definitely think it had something to do with what you were studying. And weren't Adam and Eve 'playing' with a snake in the Garden of Eden ??



The Astrological sign of Scorpio is said to be the sexiest sign of the Zodiac. Scorpio is said to rule sex and regeneration.



Perhaps while looking at divorce and remarriage you need to look at how couples relate on a more intimate, personal way. And of course sex is an important part of marriage for most.



What is important in dreams is how you react in your dream. Look at your attitude toward the snake and the scorpion - avoidance of your own personal feelings about sex, is how I would interpret this one.

Answer 4

Snakes in dreams salways symbolizes (deception) or a

( lie). The size of the snake is an example of the size of the deception. Notice how the snake followed you into someones garden. You may need to stay in your own garden, or your own relationship.



The serpent is trying to lure you into his garden of deception. Then the scorpion will finish you off.



Stay in the safety zone of your own garden.



v.j.

Answer 5

Like they say its always greener in the other side. The only problem with that is sometimes there always problems and obstacles when you take on other relationships.