when i was a kid, a purple snake-like dragony thing appeared to me in a dream a few different times. it had iridescent purple scales and wings that shimmered, never quite the same twice. it moved like it was swimming, not flying, the way sea creatures do.
i called her undine. i’d found the name in a mythology book and learned it belonged to some kind of water spirit, which felt right. the dragon swam through space the way a sea monster swims through water. i was about twelve and extremely confident about this logic.
undine told me my aura was a deep, velvety dark purple. 💜
sometimes i think about her now when i write aura analyses for clients. mostly these days i work alongside other spirit practitioners, but undine still feels like the first time something metaphysical spoke directly to me, in my own language, before i knew how to name any of it.
