The Year of the Snake: A Journey of Renewal, Healing, and Enlightenment

In astrology and spirituality, the snake  has long symbolized renewal, profound transformation and healing. As we enter 2025, the Year of the Snake invites us into a deeply personal exploration of these themes. Snake energy is determined and relentless, but also deliberate and calculated. A snake doesn’t charge ahead. It slithers, wraps and camouflages itself—moving with purpose and precision. This teaches us that transformation is not rushed; it is an art of surrender and strategy and trust in God's divine timing.

As we celebrate this Lunar New Year, we are reminded of the legend of the White Snake and Green Snake, also known as Madam White Snake—a story that illuminates the relationship between healing and wounding. In the story we see how pain and heartbreak are woven into the cycles of renewal. This folktale reminds us that healing is rarely a smooth or linear process—wounding often plays a crucial role in breaking us open so we can ultimately expand our understanding of wholeness and love. Without being broken our capacity for compassion, growth and enlightenment remains untapped.

This year we are called to ask ourselves:

• How do we shed our old skin?
  Do we boldly declare, "This is the new me"? Or do we embrace a deeper truth that transformation isn’t about becoming someone new but uncovering the most authentic version of ourselves?  Shedding our old skin is not about erasing the past but understanding it as the foundation for transformation.  What are you ready to release, not in rejection, but in honor of what it taught you?

• What does healing mean to you?
  Healing often requires facing the parts of ourselves that have been hurt, hidden or denied. Snake energy teaches us to pursue this healing relentlessly but with calculated approach.
• How can transformation lead to enlightenment?
  The Year of the Snake is not only about transformation but about using that transformation to awaken to higher truths. It is about enlightenment—shedding what no longer serves so we can embrace new levels of consciousness.

As the Lunar New Year begins with this New Moon in Aquarius, the water bearer pours fresh awareness into our lives. Aquarius invites us to break free from old paradigms and unlock more authentic ways of thinking, seeing and being.

It’s the perfect energy to launch the Year of the Snake—a year that asks us to examine how our past shapes us and how it can be a bridge to our highest potential.