Lottie's Yellowjackets Scar Has A Deeper Meaning Than You Realize

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Warning: Contains spoilers for Yellowjackets season 1.

In Yellowjackets season 1, Lottie gets a scar on her forehead after an intense scene, and while it is brushed over, the scar has a deeper hidden meaning. Yellowjackets season 1 walked a delicate line between implying supernatural events and providing possible reasonable explanations for everything that happened. While characters like Taissa are subject to this, Lottie is truly in the middle of all the strange activity in the wilderness and beyond.

In Yellowjackets episode 5, “Blood Hive,” the survivors hold a séance in the cabin in the hopes of distracting the group from the discomfort of their situation and making something light out of fact that a man died in the attic. For the séance, each of the survivors has a cross drawn on their forehead. During the séance, Lottie screams at the window shortly before it crashes open and the candles go out. She then proceeds to speak French, a language she doesn’t know, and smashes her head into the window, cutting herself.

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While Jackie anoints the group with a mixture of dirt and deer blood in the form of a cross on the forehead, the reason for this is not really explained in Yellowjackets. However, when Lottie cuts her head in the exact same place it becomes clear as a symbol for the third eye. In certain spiritual beliefs, an unseen third eye, often located on the forehead, is a symbol of having second sight or other supernatural abilities. The anointing symbolically brings all those who are participating to a point where they are closer to their spiritual sides, but when Lottie smashes her head into the window during the séance it is a signal that she is opening her third eye