2025 Year of the Wood Snake

Chinese New Year of the Wood Snake 29/1/25

This post is taken directly from Chez Creatrix, who I follow on Facebook.  Her interpretation of the meaning of Year of the Wood Snake resonates with me. I hope you find it helpful!

Snake is Yin Energy ~ Shakti
Transformation * Wisdom * Growth * Opportunities
Wood represents growth. I’m thinking Trees, Plants, Seeds
Yin Energy is Feminine, Slow, Intuitive, Changing, Mysterious.
This is a good year to focus on your internal world, as growth starts from within. Look at how you can flourish internally, find ways to feed and grow your intuition, your inner teacher and guide. All change and transformation begins from within. Embrace your inner feminine mystery. Shed light on your inner darkness.
How is your physical internal world health-wise? Are there digestive issues, sexual sluggishness or internal fire or water imbalances? Perhaps a focus on diet, movement & cleanliness may be helpful. If your outside space is cluttered and or messy, this can reflect on or be reflective of your internal world. It is wise to focus on cleaning both internal and external spaces. As within, so without and visa-versa.
The snakes’ body is always closely connected to its environment and relies on its highly attuned senses of scent, sound and vibration. You can see how the snake's powerful abilities are profoundly silent, intuitive, mysterious, wise, Feminine.
In mythology, snake is also known as serpent and appears in many myths and cultures through the ages. There is danger and mystery surrounding the snake! Both in mythology and still to this present day.
A snake crossing one’s path is interpreted as a sign of incoming change, transformation, shedding the old to create the new. It is a reminder that to avoid danger, one must stay aware and conscious of our surroundings, lest we get bitten. The snake is a wise teacher for all.
The snake is symbolic of Kundalini energy that stays coiled and dormant in our root chakra at the base of the spine. When awakened, this snake energy uncoils and winds its way up the spine hitting our third eye which awakens the Visionary and connects us to the Divine Source of all that is.
The snake is the symbol of medicine! The caduceus symbol of the snake or snakes intertwined with their heads meeting at the top of the staff.
Snake is also represented as the symbol of eternity as the ouroboros. Often depicted as the snake eating its own tail in a circle or as a figure 8. Beginnings and endings locked in an internal dance. There is no beginning and there is no ending. We are in a constant state of change and transformation.
However….we are also in a 9 year, which marks an ending.
In alignment with the Snake energy, we can use this (9) year wisely and really do some internal cleansing to create a clean space so that we are primmed and primed for the (1) year in 2026.
If we want to make the most of incoming opportunities we would do well to prepare our house, both internally and externally to make space to receive all that is ours. Let the snake be your guide. Let it show you how to shed the old to create the new. To stay aware and awake, to rely on your silent senses, stay close to the ground and move slowly with ease and grace.
We may fear the snake, for they have sharp fangs and strike quickly…but only when they sense danger or are in need of a meal. Other than that, they usually stay quietly coiled up away and hidden from prying eyes, sensing their surroundings all the while.
Snake energy is a powerful feminine medicine when used with insight and integrity. She will transform us from the inside out until our old skin is completely shed. Allow the process to begin now….surrender and release.
May 2025 bless you and prepare you for growth in all the best ways possible.
Chez x
(Thankyou to the Artist, unknown to me)