St. Pat cleans house
I can’t let my Patron Saint’s day go by without a shout.
Growing up with an Irish dad, I was constantly inundated with stories of St. Patrick.
My favorite, though, was that he drove all the snakes out of Ireland and to this day there’s not a single snake left on the entire island.
In a sort of reverse Pied Piper meets Moses, Patrick raised his staff and every snake before him made a bee-line for the sea and drowned.
In later years I came to see this story for what it was, a great metaphor for the annihilation of the ego.
We have many egos not just one. Every personality defect we have is it’s own independent ego craving consciousness and attention. Oftentimes they even conflict.
Regardless, it is up to us to actively work on driving each and every snake out of our own personal Ireland.
Really, it is the same metaphor as St. Michael driving Lucifer from Heaven.
Satan represents the great ego of pride; the origin and source of all the other egos.
Michael stabs the Dragon through the Vishuddhi Chakra, silencing him and effectively destroying his power over the other angels (aka the mind).
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!!
