Honouring the Year of the Snake
As we come to a close on 2025, let’s all take a collective moment in honouring the year of the snake. In Chinese astrology, 2025 – the Year of the Snake — is a year of shedding skins, deep inner transformation, truth-telling, and profound spiritual growth. As we approach the end of 2025, it’s a great time to look back and reflect on the year that’s been. Numerologically, 2025 is also a 9 year (2+0+2+5), signalling the end of a nine-year cycle and the completion of long chapters in our lives.
As things come to an end, this is not the time to rush ahead! Before we leap into what’s next, we’re being asked to pause, reflect, and truly acknowledge just how far we’ve come — energetically, emotionally, spiritually, and practically too 🐍
Acknowledging How Far You’ve Come (Even If It Doesn’t Feel “Big”)
Before setting intentions or goals, take a moment to consciously celebrate this year. You might choose to journal, talk things through with a trusted friend, meditate, or simply sit quietly and reflect. Look back at both your external achievements — career milestones, financial wins, a move, new projects — and your internal growth.
Who have you become this year? What have you learned through challenge, loss, initiation, or uncertainty? Often the deepest wins are invisible to others: stronger boundaries, clearer intuition, greater self-trust, or the courage to finally walk away from what was draining your energy. Honour all of it. Nothing was wasted.
Releasing What No Longer Serves You
The end of a 9-year cycle is the perfect time to release what has carried you this far, but can’t come with you into the next chapter. This includes habits, beliefs, identities, fears, and behavioural patterns that once kept you safe — but are now quietly holding you back.
People-pleasing, staying small, avoiding discomfort, chronic confusion, or outdated beliefs like “I’m not worthy of success” or “It’s too late for me” may feel familiar and even safe (we get to avoid doing the hard thing!). But safety and growth do not go together. Growth requires courage, risk, and the willingness to feel fear without letting it drive.
Fear, Comfort Zones & the Courage to Grow
Fear isn’t something we get rid of — nor should we want to. It’s a part of being human. The difference between staying stuck and expanding into your next level is not the absence of fear, but the relationship you have with it.
When we stay comfortable, fear operates quietly from the subconscious, guiding our choices without us realising. When we stretch outside our comfort zone, resistance shows up loudly — procrastination, distraction, people-pleasing, even illness or burnout. The body and mind are incredibly creative when it comes to keeping us “safe”.
True growth acknowledges fear, gently tucks it into the back pocket, and moves forward anyway. You cannot have courage without fear — they exist together.
Honouring the year of the snake, dreaming into the year of the horse
2026 is a 1 year numerologically — the beginning of a fresh cycle, aligned beautifully with the Year of the Horse, which represents forward movement, freedom, momentum, and soul-led action. This is the year to plant new seeds.
Allow yourself to dream without limitation. If fear, money, time, or other people’s opinions didn’t exist — what would you truly desire? What would make you feel proud, fulfilled, and deeply aligned by the end of next year? What are you here to contribute, create, or experience?
Write it all down. Desire is not frivolous — it is information from your soul.
Manifesting Is More Than Visualisation
I’ll be honest — I love a good vision board. I have more whiteboards than I care to admit, and ideas have never been my problem. I’m constantly receiving creative downloads — ideas for my business, new offerings, courses, events, all of it!
What I’ve had to learn over time is that not every idea is meant to be acted on. Sometimes I’ve chosen what’s easy, what feels exciting in the moment, or what I simply love — without fully acknowledging the time, energy, and capacity required. Passion has occasionally led me to overload my plate, and it’s a cycle I’m very consciously in the process of breaking.
Our beliefs are shaped by our past
We are often our own biggest limitation. Our beliefs are shaped by past experiences, the people we’re surrounded by, and what once kept us safe. Expansion requires asking new questions: Who do I need in my corner? What actions am I avoiding? What do I need to release in order to grow?
Taking action won’t always feel perfect. You may fail, lose money, get it wrong, or be judged (I’ve been through all these things!). This is not a sign you’re doing it wrong — it’s a sign you’re expanding and being brave. Be ok with failing (aka learning), and you will be less scared to take action. Staying stuck is far scarier.
Energy Alignment, Intuition & Manifesting Go Hand in Hand
If your energy is off, it’s really hard to hear your intuition. When your system is overwhelmed, ungrounded, or impacted by external influences, fear tends to speak louder than inner guidance. This is where energetic tools like Reiki healing become incredibly supportive.
Reiki clears stagnant energy, raises your vibration, and helps quiet mental noise so intuitive guidance can be felt — often subtly — in the body. After Reiki healing, many people notice improved mood, clearer decision-making, increased synchronicities, and things flowing more easily. It truly is magical! ✨
Protecting Your Energy as You Step Into Your Next Version
As you honour the year of the snake, and then move into the next cycle, protecting your energy becomes essential. You cannot hear your intuition, set clear intentions, or manifest aligned outcomes if your energy is constantly being drained by other people, environments, or unconscious patterns.
That’s why my Protect Your Energy online course is my main recommendation for this time of year. It’s been lovingly revamped to support sensitive, intuitive, and spiritual people to cleanse, clear, and protect their energy — especially over the Christmas and New Year period.
It also includes two powerful bonuses:
• A guided meditation for energetic grounding and clarity
• A distant Reiki cleanse to help clear lingering energetic attachments
If you’re ready to close this year with intention and step into 2026 feeling grounded, clear, and aligned, you can download the Protect Your Energy course here.
This is your invitation to release the old skin, honour the journey, and welcome the next version of you — consciously, courageously, and with your energy intact. 💫
