Female Blue Water Snake Year

L: Snake Year Official of the Animal Zodiac, 1500 year old Chinese ceramic. R: Snake has feminine soft outer skin, fiery male inside.

"This Water Snake Year is going to bring up very deep issues that relate to our core sexual identity and the mythic "fall" of humanity into male and female bodies - the Adam & Eve & the biblical serpent story. Chinese myth has interesting parallels, and holds that the first humans, the brother-sister pair Fuxi and Nuwa, are part serpent."

"Snake archetypally is very spiritual. It swallows its tail to flow its Qi (Chi [energy]) perpetually in a Microcosmic Orbit that integrates male and female energy. It wisely sheds its outer skin to allow inner forces to surface. Snakes both fascinate and terrify us with their sexual potency that, like a sudden erection, comes slithering out of the earth. Their bite can bring pain and poison, as well as wisdom and divinatory powers.

- Michael Winn

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Clarke M. Mar 11, 2013, 1:55am UTC

2013 Female Water Snake is the 30th year in the Chinese calendar's 60 year cycle, its exact midpoint. That suggests a powerful tipping point in the collective consciousness, possibly a larger "astrological mid-life" crisis. In the western view, Water Snake Year might signify a critical final shift from age of Pisces to Aquarius.

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John-Arthur Ingram Mar 12, 2013, 2:49am UTC

Very fascinating. Love the images. I often have dreams about a snake attacking me. I either try to fight it or I take flight and fly away from it. Flying is something else I do often in dreams;)

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