his weekend is the Aquarius New Moon and Chinese New Year 2013 is the year of the Snake.

According to Lori Reid, in her book on Chinese astrology, the snake is the philosopher and mystic of the Chinese astrological signs — perceptive, intuitive, even psychic. Enigmatic snakes can be secretive, Lori writes, but are undeniably attractive, because after all, who can resist a mystery?

Previous snake years were: 1905, 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001. The last water snake year was 60 years ago, 1953. Famous snakes: Mae West, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

According to Native American lore snake medicine people are very rare and their initiation involves living through multiple snake bites which invests them with the power to transmute all poisons: mental, physical, spiritual and emotional. Snake medicine is creative power and embodies sexuality, psychic energy, alchemy, reproduction and ascension into higher states of consciousness.

There are many correlates between Chinese and Native American snake symbolism!

The 2013 Year of the Snake coincides with the element of water, making the psychic/intuitive snake energy even more powerful. It is interesting to note that this year — in Western Astrology — also has an emphasis on the water element with many planets traversing signs in water, and a special grand sextile aspect pattern this summer that will fall in the two feminine elements of water and earth. Snake medicine indeed!

~ Blue Moon Astrology