The Chinese New Year ushers in a new cycle each year on the day following the New Moon of Aquarius.  This year, on January 29, 2025 the Year of the Wood Snake begins.  For the sake of comparison, previous Snake years occurred in 2013, 2001, 1989, 1977, 1965 (the last Wood Snake), 1953, 1941, 1929, and 1917.

As we step into 2025, the Chinese Year of the Snake, this enigmatic creature takes on a heightened significance, inviting us to explore its profound symbolism and the mysteries it embodies. The snake has long represented duality, serving as a bridge between opposites: the earthly and the divine, the finite and the infinite. It is a creature steeped in esoteric resonance, holding a mirror to our own paradoxical nature.

Did you know your imagination can be a powerful tool for healing? Imagination is far more than daydreaming; it’s a powerful gateway to deep spiritual healing. When used with intention, it can guide us into inner realms filled with energies and spiritual insights that lead to transformative healing.

This is a country that had almost lost its way. We are a democracy and what democracy means to me is that each individual has a vote and that is who won this recent election. US!
I started to sense that an ‘enantiodromia’ was taking place and told my friends that by text a few days before the election. We were at the tail end of the transit of Pluto in Capricorn and I had been waiting for years for something BIG to happen.

Our world is both orderly and chaotic. Newtonian mechanics can predict the planetary motions and gravity produces predictable universal effects. In this sense, science speaks of deterministic conditions or predictable sets of outcomes. But in many other instances, what starts as determinism gives way to chaos or unpredictability.

The year 2025 is likely to be a year of massive shifts and changes in collective consciousness on several levels.  Along with Pluto’s permanent ingress into Aquarius, the outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, as well as Saturn, begin completion of their long journeys through Pisces and Taurus and shift into the next signs, Aries and Gemini.

In modern palmistry, most schools now use a four-category hand system, an adaptation of the ancient Chinese system that has been updated and anglicized for contemporary Western practice. If you look at your own hand, it will roughly fit into one of these four categories.

Numerology’s foundation is the Life Path Number, derived from your birthdate. It serves as your unchanging guide to life and represents approximately 50% of your “core,” a group of five primary numbers in your numerology chart. 

I went to sleep thinking about what I would write about today. As I often do, I asked my inner Self for any help on what to write about. Usually, I wake up with clear guidance and proceed. Today, I woke up to the phone ringing as a dear friend was calling me. We talked for about 45 minutes, and it was like a therapy session. For fifteen years we have taken turns being supportive of each other.

My introduction to palmistry was as a 7-year-old boy in an orphanage school. We were queuing for school dinners when a boy in front of me raised his hand to warn us that the nuns were coming. These nuns, the “Sisters of Mercy,” were among the most wicked, cruel, and twisted people I have ever met.