Seprent Magick- Uses for Snake Sheddings

honeycoyote:

I have a snake and have been actively working with her shed skins, i figured it would be a good ideas to make a post about their uses. as a snake grows they naturally shed their skins, and in many cultures they are strongly associated with the natural cycles of life, death and change.

Uses for skins:

• used in protection spells
• used to represent a transformation
• Renewal of growth (because in order for a snake to grow it must shed its old skin thus revealing a new one)
• can be used for changes
• used to represent natural cycles 
• can represent rebirth
• can be associated with either masculine or feminine energizes
  
• could be used in vision work (when a snake goes into shed their vision clouds and they cannot see well, because the protective skin that cover’s their eyes detaches so that a new one can form. the snakes vision dose not fully return until the old skin is shed)
• getting over someone or something 
• can be used in magic pouches and jars.
• collecting the suns energy (since snakes are cold blooded some must bask in the suns energy for warmth in order to survive. so thinking about it snake sheds would be a great way to absorb and store the suns energy.) 
• can be turned into powder (once dry they can be ground down into a powder for easy use and storage) 
• color association.(i have only seen snakes skins in a dark black brown color or white. so depending on the color of the skin it can also take on the association of the color.)