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Feb/10/2013 New Moon at 21 degrees Aquarius is Chinese New Year of
the WATER SNAKE
Those born in the year of the snake
have qualities of refinement, intuitiveness, gracefulness. They are exciting, dark, calm, stay centered. They are cunning
and possessive. In snake years these qualities are strong, very much Scorpio like.
It will be an initiation the House
of SLYTHERIN from the Harry Potter Novel, Slytherin values are ambition, cunning, leadership
and resourcefulness.
The
Snake is an ancient Matriarchal symbol, not phallic. The snake year is a time for shedding the old skin which you are
outgrowing, which you know instinctively is too small for you. Snake is a major symbol of transformation,as in the famous
OROBOROUS SNAKE biting its tail, symbol of eternity, eternal life, which to me relates to Scorpio.
The 12 year cycle in the Ancient Chinese system is sidereal
and based on the cycle of JUPITER which pass through a sign in about a year.
The SNAKE is equivalent to earth
sign TAURUS, snakes are totally in contact with the earth.
Jupiter is in Sidereal Taurus now
but due to precession, the planet will enter Tropical Cancer at the end of June,Gemini in Sidereal later in the year.
The Chinese calendar is Lunar and the date of Chinese New
year changes every year, but it always starts on a New MOON.
The 12 animals of the Zodiac blend with the 5 elements
blend, repeating every 60 years
Snake years- are characterized by dramatic elements
The last Snake year was the METAL SNAKE in 2001 the year
of 911 and the famous Kubrick movie,
1989 was an Earth Snake, 1977 was the FIRE SNAKE, 1965 was
the Wood snake,
1953 was the last WATER SNAKE year,
1941 was a METAL SNAKE
1929- the stock market crash was the
EARTH SNAKE
1917 was a FIRE SNAKE ,1905 was a WOOD SNAKE
I am certainly not a Chinese astrology expert.
Snakes are worshipped world-wide. IN INDIA, Goddess Vinata was
the mother of snakes, a water and underworld symbol. The Nagas- Demi-Gods and their beautiful wives, NAGINIS were
depicted as half cobra/half deity. The Hindu God Vishnu is often depicted sleeping on the serpent of Eternity.
I am thinking about the snake year
in a more symbolic, metaphoric, feeling tone.
The snake symbolizes healing. The Caduceus, symbol of Medicine,
has twin- {GEMINI} snakes which is the ancient and modern sign for
Doctors.
Caduceus
is also the name of an amazing Northern Arizona winery owned by Rock Star frontman Maynard
James Keenan.
SNAKE MEDICINE in Native American tradition is about transmutation.
Getting bitten by a poisonous snake is how one gets snake medicine powers. It is the power of creation, sexuality, psychic
energy, alchemy, reproduction and ascension.
Medusa in Greek Mythology and her head of snakes.
SNAKES figure prominently in Mayan
totems. Coatlicue an Aztec Goddess, known in Nahuatl for Mother Goddess, gave birth to all Celestial things,
Goddess of Fire, death rebirth, she wears a serpent skirt. She is like Kali.
The powerful Anaconda in South America is always associated
with Ayahuasca visions and rebirth.
I love snakes. As a child I
knew I could speak to snakes or Parceltongue as Harry Potter books call it. Like the Ancient bare breasted Cretan Goddess
I have grabbed wild garter snakes in the woods. My son brought an injured baby garter snake home one summer, we nurtured it
for a few months then released it.
Interestingly I picked an oracle card,Feb 2 at a women's
business workshop, I got RATTLESNAKE.
It's message was by being bitten by the poisonous snake one
transmutes the poison and becomes a healer.
I had a very powerful dream Feb
4. I seemed to be dying. I was crying, I had so much to do, I didn't want to die yet, and my children, then I surrendered,
my heart stopped beating. I stood up from where I was sitting and walked across the room, and noted how odd it felt to not
have a heartbeat to not breathe, then I sat down again in a chair. Then my heart started up again with a big chathunk and I
came back to life. I was very happy.
So let yourself die and be reborn.
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