Shed Sister Shed

Today, as the first New Moon of calendar year 2026 prepares to wax from her Darkness, we enter Aquarius Solar Season. To me, a lunation is New Moon to New Moon. The New Moon is akin to a fresh start, a blank canvas, an invitation to get dreamy with what’s possible, a moment to ponder what we truly desire. The apex of any lunation is the Full Moon. While I could (and typically do) go on at length about Luna, her phases, and the Solar seasons, I want to stay with this Dark Moon and her movement toward the next lunation.

There is a lot of talk about moving into the Year of the Fire Horse, which arrives with the Lunar New Year on the next New Moon in Aquarius occurring on February 17th. The Aquarius New Moon is also a Solar Eclipse and happens to coincides with the beginning of Ramadan and falls on Fat Tuesday.

The point I wish to bring forward is this :: the Year of the Water Snake has not yet fully closed. The messages I continue to receive from Sister Snake are clear; many of us, including myself, aren't finished shedding yet. Water Snake medicine invites us into the realm of feelings and emotions. She asks ~

• Where are you bypassing? Avoiding? Dissociating?
• Where are you slipping back into victimhood?
• Where do you revert to outdated and expired patterns, beliefs, and ways of being?
• What no longer serves, truly, what no longer serves you?

There can be a strong pull toward what is familiar and comfortable, even when it is time to let it go. And the shed, full shed isn't comfortable, especially the last bit. Neither is growth, which is calling us forward with Fire Horse.

We are at a point where Water Snake is not simply going to release us. To do so would be an injustice to us, to her, and to Fire Horse. During this lunation, it is of vital importance to take a real and honest look within ~ where are you now, and what still needs to complete its shedding, especially around emotions, feelings, belief systems, victimhood, and long held patterns?

Fire Horse will still arrive on February 17th and I don't believe we can fully be ignited or fully run with her until the shedding is complete. Fire Horse longs to activate our freedom, and part of that freedom is allowing Love to Lead. Without a clean, conscious shed, we cannot fully burn nor shine at our brightest luminosity.

Work the last shedding away during this lunation. Allow Water Snake to finish her sacred work. What emerges on the other side is not who you were, but who you are becoming ~

• Who do you choose to become?
• What does it look like, feel like to be illuminated, running free, and burning with a passion that lets love lead? 

Calendar year 2026 needs you, your medicine, and your ability to Lead with Love. So please, Shed Sister Shed.

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