WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for Yellowjackets season 2, episode 7.
Yellowjackets' Lottie experiences a number of dreams and visions, which come to be the basis of the strange belief system the girls develop while isolated in the Ontario wilderness. Lottie's visions are thus both a key to her character and Yellowjackets themes, and a window into what's to come as the series continues in both the past and present-day story lines. Here's a breakdown of all the visions Lottie has in Yellowjackets, and what they mean. Played by Courtney Eaton as a teen and Simone Kessell as an adult, Lottie is at first introduced as just another player on the Yellowjackets soccer team.
However, after she is stranded she begins having strange visions and assumes a prophetic role. This is first presented as the result of Lottie not being able to take her regular psychiatric medication, Loxipene. However, as time goes on, the others begin to believe in Lottie's dreams and that something supernatural is happening around them. Lottie's hallucinations apparently stopped after being rescued, but have started up again in the 2021 timeline, much to her distress. Yellowjackets season 2 saw more visions from Lottie, in both the past and present, and they deeply inform where the show could be heading as she's influenced by the wilderness entity and the antler queen.
The Seance
There are some early suggestions that Lottie has premonitions, such as when she comments that "bad things happened here" when coming upon the cabin and the flashbacks to her childhood. However, her first full-fledged vision comes when the girls decide to hold a seance, ending in Lottie gaining a scar after going through a window. During the séance, Lottie begins speaking rapidly in both French and English, ultimately telling Shauna "It's already in you" and "You must spill blood. Or else."
Lottie is mentioned as studying French in school. It's described as her worst subject, but there is a possibility that she absorbed more subliminally than consciously, providing a non-supernatural explanation for the vision. But given that the girls are stranded in the Canadian wilderness, it's also plausible that the cabin could have been home to a Francophone resident, whose spirit is now possessing Lottie.
Lottie's words to Shauna also seem highly significant. "It's already in you" could've been a reference to Shauna's pregnancy, but also the same supernatural entity suggested by Yellowjackets' mysterious symbol and "the wilderness" itself. The reference to spilling blood foreshadows the role that human sacrifice will play in Lottie's new faith, as seen through the flash-forwards, the attempt to kill Travis during the girls' "doomcoming" celebration, and their first foray into cannibalism when eating Jackie's corpse.
The Baptism
Believing her first vision to be demonic possession, Laura Lee attempts to baptize Lottie. While she is submerged underwater, Lottie sees a vision where she is walking through an underground corridor. She then follows a stag to an altar covered in candles, which burn brighter and brighter. The stag is a figure that has long had symbolic connotations of power and fertility in both Christian and pagan traditions, one that Lottie will refer to later. It could refer to Travis, the most desirable man among the group, or simply to the power over the wilderness that Lottie is looking for.
It could also symbolize her possession by the antler queen. The candles could be a premonition of the fire that kills Laura Lee, or a symbol of enlightenment and knowledge. As Lottie Lee emerges from the water, she sees the sun behind Laura Lee in a halo-like position, which also has a double meaning: Laura is Lottie's guardian angel, but she will also literally be consumed in fire. The underground hallway could also foreshadow a hidden passage or other location that the Yellowjackets will discover, possibly where Javi was hiding for two months.
Doomcoming
Lottie has one of her most elaborate visions during the "doomcoming" party, with her already-existing premonitions enhanced or perhaps distorted by the magic mushrooms added to the stew. While Yellowjackets doesn't show the viewer what Lottie sees in this instance, viewers do see the results. She wears a headdress similar to the garb of the mysterious "Antler Queen" in the flash-forward sequences. She also leads the group in a ritual involving a bear heart, again suggesting the role that sacrifice and bloodletting play in Lottie's new faith.
During this process, Lottie sees Travis as the stag, and wants to first seduce and then butcher him. Lottie continually refers to a supernatural entity, referring to an "It" that wants the girls to kill Travis, possibly either the "wilderness" or the antler queen. She also comments to Natalie that "It's in all of us [...] Even you", suggesting that all of the girls have been in some way affected by the wilderness. Lottie's words are consistent with her other vision, suggesting a supernatural being demanding bloodshed, and the fact that adult Natalie reveals in Yellowjackets season 2 that there was something dark there with them that they brought back.
The Prayer
Yellowjackets season 1 ends with Lottie making a prayer to her new god, including a Lottie saying a line in French, that translates to "shed blood, my beautiful friends." Her use of French again suggests some kind of ghostly possession or supernatural influence from the wilderness or the antler queen. She is accompanied by her first two converts, Misty and Van. This again highlights Lottie's belief in the importance of sacrifice to the supernatural entity that haunts the woods.
This sacrifice is accomplished by the bear heart in this instance, but human sacrifice could follow based on what is seen in the Yellowjackets premiere episode. Lottie may have also been aware of the death of Jackie before it happened, based on her comment to Jackie that "You don't matter anymore." It's not clear whether Lottie has had another dream conveying instructions for sacrifices such as this, or has simply put her visions together into a roughly coherent belief system.
Laura Lee
Lottie's visions don't end in her teenage years, as Yellowjackets season 2 sees an adult Lottie having a harrowing vision of a dead Laura Lee. In season 2, episode 2, a flashback sequence shows Lottie assisting Travis with finding out what the wilderness wants. His plan is to get as close to death as possible by hanging himself with a crane and then having Lottie lower it at the proper moment. Halfway through the plan, Lottie frantically realizes that the crane remote won't lower him. She turns around in distress and is greeted by a decomposing Laura Lee letting out a wild scream.
Lottie's Laura Lee vision isn't explained, but there are several possibilities behind its meaning. Lottie could've seen Laura Lee because she feels guilt over her death in the past timeline, which is prompted by her impending guilt over not being able to save Travis in the present. She had foreseen Laura Lee's death, and didn't stop her from trying to fly the plane. It could also be that what the wilderness wants is for another survivor to die, and it brought back one of its other victims to remind Lottie that she has no control over who it picks. Either way, Lottie's visions in Yellowjackets season 2 don't end there.
Lottie's Bees
Adult Lottie has another mysterious vision in Yellowjackets season 2, episode 3 regarding her cult's bee hives. Toward the end of the episode, Lottie approaches the bee boxes she explained to Natalie earlier in the installment and notices that there are a number of dead bees lying on top of it. She carefully opens up the box and takes out a comb, but the comb is drenched in blood. She's visibly shaken by this vision, even being brought to tears, suggesting that the vision is foreshadowing a tragedy that will come to pass among her own "hive," with her being the queen bee that she spoke of to Natalie.
Lottie's bee vision could mean that more adult survivors are going to die. With all of the adult survivors together again at her compound in 2021, Lottie starts out happy but immediately becomes distressed when she has another vision in her office, and tells them they should all leave in Yellowjackets season 2, episode 7. Lottie knows that the group reunion may be a dangerous occurrence rather than a happy one, as her bee vision suggests future bloodshed among the hive, and knows that the wilderness has led them together for a purpose.
The Mall
One of the most bizarre of teen Lottie's visions sees her at the mall in Yellowjackets season 2, episode 4. In the installment, Lottie and Natalie are forced to compete in a hunting competition, and while wandering, Lottie comes across Laura Lee's plane buried in the snow. She enters the plane and goes down a hatch until she is suddenly in a mall. She sees Van, Natalie, Taissa, Shauna, Laura Lee, Akilah, Mari, and Misty in the food court, saying they saved some food for her. Not long after, Lottie is physically pushed out of her vision by Laura Lee because she's about to die from the cold.
The vision occurs directly after Lottie performs a ritual at the bear heart stump to ask the wilderness to guide her to food. Truthfully, the vision seems to display Lottie's reluctance over bearing the burdens of a spiritual leader and her deep-seated wish to return to normal teenage life. This is evidenced by the fact that the table is occupied by who were and would become her followers. While Laura Lee tries to push her back to reality, Lottie declares that she doesn't want to leave, possibly informing audiences that she's insecure in her role and doesn't want to bear the responsibilities of the horrible things to come in Yellowjackets.
Queen Of Hearts
Adult Lottie has another vision in the same episode, and mirrors her actions in the past by performing a blood ritual directly afterward. The vision occurs in her office when she is going through gratitude cards. Stuck in the pile is a queen of hearts playing card with the eyes scratched out. She quickly shakes the moment off and continues reading the gratitude cards, only for the queen of hearts to pop up again. Afterward, she goes outside and makes her blood sacrifice, begging to the wilderness that it be "enough," this time around. The significance of cards in Yellowjackets wasn't revealed until season 2, episode 5.
The installment revealed that the cards denote different chores for members of the group to select, with the queen of hearts meaning yet to be revealed. It was initially thought that Lottie's queen of hearts vision suggested her role in the group returning to haunt her, but the cards having a physical function in the group dynamic suggests something else. It's possible that the queen of hearts cards in Yellowjackets could be a chore that has to do with their eventual ritualized cannibalism, whether who selects it is responsible for leading the hunt, choosing the victim, preparing the body, or anything else equally sinister.
The Antler Queen
Adult Lottie has two visions of the antler queen in Yellowjackets season 2, with the first one being brief. She sees the antler queen's shadow behind her after hypnotizing Natalie and eliciting a confession for the meaning behind Travis' note in season 2, episode 5. This proves that Natalie was right, and the wilderness has come back to haunt the group. The second antler queen vision is more involved. At various points Lottie has been meeting with her psychiatrist at the compound, and the psychiatrist gives her increasingly troubling advice, basically stating that she should let her visions guide her and express her truest self.
In Yellowjackets season 2, episode 7, Lottie's psychiatrist tells her that her primal instincts represent a part of her she shouldn't suppress, and that being with the group again is healthy and natural despite the horrible acts they committed in the past. When Lottie questions her on this, her therapist turns into the antler queen and says, "does a hunt that has no violence feed anyone?" before disappearing entirely. Yellowjackets has made it clear that the antler queen and the wilderness are evil entities that have followed the survivors back to the normal world, with Lottie's increasing visions foreshadowing future bloodshed in the present timeline.