Already a third of the way through this Year of the Snake, its body politic wound tightly around us and all the world now. Smooth concentric muscle contracting like a birth canal, constricting like a stranglehold, compressing our life's worth of smoke and mirrors in an effort to shed everything not in service of The Future.

In the brackish space between old and new, something else entirely emerges. Minds slavishly entrained into neuroconformist norms devour the details without thinking. Aligning hungry spiritual innards to the next trending thought field, without pausing for even so much as a nanosecond to consider what it actually means to them, for them or their worlds at large.

Snake is a sign of transmutation, of change, of shedding your skin to reveal something new and wonderful. This change can manifest in our lives in much the same fashion as the snake sometimes appears to us – fearsome, unwelcome, unheralded. When snake medicine slithers into your life, you are undergoing a period of transformation. You’re probably in it right now

A brand new altar for the Year of the Snake and Aquarius new moon