19/01/2026
Happy New Year 2026. We will soon say good bye to the Wood Snake year, and welcome in the Fire Horse, February 17th 2026. We're in turbulent times. People often say they can't wait for one year to be over, and for the new year, thinking that shaking off the energy will make the next year better, only to realise the world is still turbulent, and many things haven't changed.
Throughout history, snakes have been associated with women and goddesses from Nรฃga Kanya, Shakti - Kundalini, Lilith, Eve, Wadjet, Medusa, Cleopatra, and so on. Snake symbols are : healing, fertility, protection, prosperity, transformation, and yet also, poison, thereby symbolising both the dangerous and the divine.
2025 brought home the dangers of where "othering" groups of people returns to. It's an awful and often repeated pattern throughout time.
Othering is an act of dehumanising a group of people in systemic, cultural and emotional violence which desensitisies people against further harms done on the physical and financial levels, and where rule of law no longer applies and systems break. This same violence expands and eventually finds its way back to turn on the same population of the original oppressors. We've seen an ICE agent uttering the violently misogynistic threat "F"king B"tch!" as he snuffed out the life of Renee Nicole Good. Yet he could not silence her honor, peaceful protest, or people's memory of her. However what he did will make many reconsider speaking truth to power, and yet solidify the resolve of more protest, and resistance.
Racism, bigotry, and misogny will forever be the first chosen weapons of fascism and white supremacy that eventually cuts itself with the same blade.
Just like the snake who sheds old skin, renewal in society requires us to shed old harmful actions at attitudes in order to embrace better. For change to be real we must first acknowledge and take action to solve that which we wish to change, and create lasting improvement, rather than forgetting the past, or hollow apologies with no change. Because, we can be sure that snake never forgets. But, it can forgive ... eventually.
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Jacquelene