This year promises to be a year of growth, creativity, and insight. Whether it’s on a personal level or a global scale, the influence of the Wood Snake encourages progress, innovation, and a deeper understanding of the world around us and within us.

This year the snake slithers in with elegance and intuition.

Toning down the drama, snakes are little dragons. Dragons are more about flair and drama. Can you relate? Hello, 2024. Snakes are grounded in the earth, while dragons connect with cosmic energies. The snake tunes inward, embracing its quieter, innate wisdom and elegance—always shedding its skin. When we align with transformation and change personally, we create a positive effect in our community and globally.

Before reacting, let’s choose to respond with the elegance and wisdom of the snake. Embrace steadiness amidst change, leaving the drama of the past behind. Stay present. Below are charms and issues of the snake; do you relate to any of these?

Snake Charms: Their love of beauty, creativity, and expression, plus they are resourceful. When snakes feel stuck, they find a creative, resourceful way forward. They maintain their calm while others’ tempers flare around them. They keep their cool when other people’s tempers are flaring into the world. They are watchful, steady, and calm.

Snake Issues: They can be cold and indifferent. And these issues are apparent when the snake is either not respected, or their boundaries have been crossed, or out of balance. The snake becomes more secretive when it doesn’t feel safe, and so it can become more malicious and dangerous when it feels threatened. Or it deprives itself—allowing itself to get too hungry. Can you relate to being hangry? I know for me, I really react when I am too hungry, not clear-minded at all.

Next, let’s navigate the element of wood:

In Balance: Feel intelligent and wise while using insight and deep thinking to solve sticky, complex problems. Gives us patience—wood grows—and it takes its time because it is rooted, feeling harmonious. It’s a kind of wisdom that comes from being close to the ground, quiet, intuitive, and using our perceptive abilities.

Out of Balance: Can lead to indecision, like growing in too many directions, overthinking, and over-analyzing. We focus on perfectionism and try to achieve too many things instead of mastering one. which leads to frustration.

How can we support the balanced qualities of the Yin Wood Snake?

By toning down the drama in our own lives, whether that be reacting, self-criticism, or not being aware of our surroundings. Take time to feel into our skin, which is the snake’s primary sense of touch. And they have that capacity; they’re very attuned to changes in temperature and pressure. Their proprioception (awareness of their space) is very, very alert.

They are aware of tremors and movements in the ground. They can sense danger and sense changes. We have this capacity as well, but often it’s blocked by overthinking. We get caught up in our thoughts and forget to attune to the whole—our body, and the wisdom of our skin. We’re really thinking a lot and not kind of attuned to the whole—which embodies the experience of our skin.

In 2025, the Wood element infuses vitality, fresh ideas, and a focus on new beginnings, perfectly complementing the Snake’s natural ability to shed its skin and embrace transformation.

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