A Healing Year: The Year of the Snake
This year has been a breaking. Everything has fallen apart.
On the last day of 2024, I saged my home and prayed. I spoke over my space, my spirit, my future. I expected clarity, peace, maybe even a gentle unfolding of what’s next. I asked God to remove everything that was no longer good and to welcome all that is. And then, just like that—it all crumbled.
At first, I was in shock. I had done what felt right. I had prepared my heart, my home, my spirit. And yet, in the days and weeks that followed, things that once seemed stable began to unravel. Relationships shifted. Plans dissolved. Certainties became questions. At times, I asked, Was this destruction or divine intervention?
Then I remembered something I have learned in my 38 years: when things fall apart, it means they were never truly well built. Or maybe they were built for a season, not for a lifetime. Maybe they served their purpose, and now it is time for something new.
Yesterday, a colleague reminded me that today marks the first day of the Chinese New Year—the Year of the Snake. And something in me stirred.
The snake has always been one of my favorite spiritual symbols. It is not a creature of destruction but of transformation. Years ago, when I was moving through a season of deep spiritual growth, I had recurring dreams of snakes. At first, I was afraid. I had been taught to fear snakes, to see them as symbols of danger, of deception. But something in my spirit told me to look deeper.
When I did, I found something beautiful.
The snake is a healer. It has long been a symbol of medicine, renewal, and rebirth. It sheds its skin, leaving behind what is no longer needed, what no longer serves it. It does not resist the process. It does not mourn the old skin. It simply releases it and steps forward into what is new.
That is what this year is calling me to do.
And if you are in a season of breaking—if the things you once trusted are shifting beneath your feet—maybe it is calling you to do the same. If you’re in a season of breaking, know this: You are shedding. You are transforming. Transformation is not a quiet process—it demands loss, release, and faith that what comes next will be stronger.
A New Year of Healing
Healing is not just about feeling better. It is about becoming whole. It is about allowing what is no longer right for you to fall away, even when it hurts. It is about trusting that when something breaks, it makes space for something stronger to be built.
If you feel like things are falling apart, I want to remind you:
You are not being punished. You are being prepared.
You are not losing. You are making room.
You are not breaking. You are shedding.
The Year of the Snake is a year of renewal. Of shedding the weight of what no longer fits. Of allowing transformation to take place—even when it is uncomfortable, even when it does not look the way you expected.
This year, I am embracing the breaking. I am trusting the healing. I am making space for something new.
And I invite you to do the same.
A Prayer for your Healing
May you have the courage to release what is no longer for you. May you find peace in the in-between, knowing that the unknown is not emptiness—it is possibility. May you embrace transformation, trusting that every ending is a beginning in disguise. May you step into this new year with the certainty that healing is not just something that happens to you—it is something that you become.
This is the year of renewal. The year of healing. The year of transformation.
I, for one, am excited.
Are you ready?
With love and light,
Adrianne
