02/02/2026
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If you feel like your life, your energy, or even your sense of self is quietly unraveling, this is why.
We are not energetically in 2026 yet, even though the calendar says we are.
Spiritual cycles donโt flip on January 1.
We are still moving through the Year of the Snake, and right now weโre in its final shedding phase, the most intense part of the entire cycle.
This phase completes with the lunar reset in mid-February:
๐ Feb 16 - Waning Crescent
โ collapse of the old, release, exhaustion, emotional stripping
๐ Feb 17 - New Moon
โ Chinese New Year begins
โ Year of the Fire Horse officially starts
What weโre in right now is the space between.
The emptying.
The shedding.
The point where the old identity can no longer come with you.
And the final shedding is never gentle.
This is why so many people are feeling:
โข exhausted even when resting
โข unable to tolerate people, noise, or overstimulation
โข flat, irritable, emotionally raw
โข swinging between not hungry and eating everything
โข dehydrated, heavy, drained
โข obsessed with decluttering, deleting, purging
โข completely done with anything that drains their energy
This isnโt burnout.
This isnโt depression.
This isnโt you โfalling apart.โ
This is nervous system and cellular release.
๐ Snake energy works underground.
It strips identity.
It dissolves old stories.
It removes what your next version cannot carry.
And this shedding matters because what comes next is Fire Horse energy, a frequency that only arrives once every 60 years.
Most of us will only experience this once in our lifetime.
This isnโt just a โnew year.โ
Itโs a timeline reset.
I also see this as the completion of a 9-year cycle that began in 2017.
For me, that year marked my rebirth - leaving deep trauma, giving birth alone, ending a decade-long chapter of survival & DV, and beginning an entirely new life.
Now, at the close of this cycle, everything connected to that timeline is finally releasing.
This isnโt nostalgia.
This isnโt emotional processing.
This is final closure.
We are also in a full moon right now here in South Australia.
Full moons amplify everything.
They donโt create emotions - they expose them.
So if today feels heavier, louder, more emotional, more intense in the body thatโs why.
Full moon energy brings things to the surface:
โข emotions youโve been holding
โข truths youโve been avoiding
โข cords that are ready to be cut
โข cycles that are ready to close
And because this full moon is landing inside the final shedding of the Snake, itโs acting like a spotlight on whatever cannot come with you.
The full moon illuminates.
The waning phase releases.
The new moon resets.
So if today feels like โa lotโ youโre not imagining it.
Youโre right on the peak before the drop.
Let it surface.
Let it move.
Let it go.
And when the new moon hits, the Fire Horse arrives.
๐ฅ The Fire Horse does not wait.
It accelerates.
It moves you forward fast.
It burns through stagnation and false alignment.
Thatโs why this in-between feels quiet, heavy, isolating, strange.
Youโre not going backwards.
Youโre not stuck.
Youโre changing form.
Some people are feeling empowered already.
Others are freezing, projecting, clinging to drama, or chasing noise.
For those awakening, this phase is the signal.
Youโre not losing yourself.
Youโre shedding the last skin.
People who are meant to move forward right now are focused on their healing, their growth, their integrity, their inner work.
People who arenโt ready will stay busy watching others, creating noise, feeding drama, and looping the same old patterns.
No judgement.
Just frequency.
Where your attention goes right now tells you exactly where you are in the cycle.
And the Fire Horse doesnโt carry passengers who refuse to look at themselves.
Alicia Cartwright
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