The Serpent and the Solar Will
This image feels like a symbolic portrait of mastery over the lower and higher forces of the self.
The serpent has long been tied to hidden knowledge, instinct, transformation, and renewal. It moves close to the earth, shedding its skin and returning again and again as a symbol of death, rebirth, and secret wisdom.
But here, the serpent is not crawling aimlessly.
It is joined to a crowned, bird-like figure — something more solar, alert, and commanding. The rooster especially has associations with dawn, awakening, vigilance, and the arrival of light after darkness.
So symbolically, this image can be read as the awakening of consciousness over instinct.
Not the destruction of the serpent.
Not the denial of the body.
Not the rejection of shadow.
But the ordering of raw force through awareness.
In Hermetic and alchemical thought, transformation does not happen by pretending we are only spirit. It happens by bringing the earthly, animal, emotional, and instinctive parts of the self into harmony with the higher mind.
The wand or cord in the hand suggests direction. The light in the other suggests illumination.
Together, they show the work of inner alchemy:
to descend into the hidden parts of the self,
to understand them without fear,
and to raise them into conscious power.
The serpent becomes wisdom when it is illumined.
The instinct becomes strength when it is guided.
The self becomes whole when nothing within it is abandoned.
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