Excerpt from Animal Reflections Healing Oracle ©Barbara Techel
Snail – FORGIVENESS
Carrying its home upon its back, Snail is a wonderful messenger about balancing trust with self-protection. As a child, someone may have said or done something creating in you a conditioned pattern. However, what began as a way of safeguarding yourself against further emotional pain became an unhealthy way of being continuing to play out
in different situations. Now is your opportunity to bring the broken pieces back together.
Snail is your partner, helping you liberate yourself by leaning into feeling what needs to be felt while also encouraging you to forgive those who have hurt you. When you arrive at a place of forgiveness you can also shift more easily into understanding they were acting from their own hurts and betrayals — and quite possibly without awareness of the effect their behavior was having.