18/12/2025
This
Snakes shed so horses can run.
The Truth of 2025.
This year hasn’t been about speed or spectacle.
It’s been about pressure. About things rubbing where they used to fit.
About realising, slowly and sometimes unwillingly, that certain roles, relationships, and ways of being just don’t work anymore.
Snake years turn you inward.
They make you less tolerant of noise.
Less willing to over-explain.
Less interested in carrying things that were never really yours to begin with.
Shedding isn’t pretty.
It can be uncomfortable. Lonely. Irritating in a way you can’t quite name.
But it’s exact. Nothing comes off by accident.
And that matters, because what comes next requires movement.
The Year of the Horse is about momentum. Direction. Freedom.
But horses don’t run well when they’re tight or restricted.
They need space. They need clarity. They need to trust where they’re headed.
So Snake slows you down first.
Not to stall you, but to stop you bolting in the wrong direction.
It teaches discernment before speed.
You don’t move into a Horse year dragging old skins behind you.
You move in lighter.
Clearer.
More honest about where you’re actually willing to go.
So if 2025 has felt confronting, quieter than you expected, or strangely clarifying, you’re not stuck.
You’re shedding.
The work is mostly unseen.
But it’s the reason the horse will be able to run when the time comes.
