2025: The Year of the Wood Snake from a Feng Shui Perspective and Top Feng Shui Tips

Symbolism and Characteristics
The Snake, the sixth animal in the Chinese zodiac cycle, represents wisdom, intuition, and mystery. In 2025, it combines with the Wood element, which adds qualities of growth, creativity, and adaptability / flexibility. The Snake (蛇) is the sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Wood Snake (yin) is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 巳. In Chinese astrological symbology, snakes are also believed to be intelligent, with tendencies that are a bit unscrupulous, reserved, and contemplative.

Timing and Significance
The Year of the Wood Snake begins on 29 January 2025 and ends on 16 February 2026. This combination of Snake and Wood occurs once every 60 years in the Chinese astrological cycle.

Key Themes for 2025

• Wisdom and Intuition: The Snake’s natural traits of analytical thinking and insightfulness are emphasised.
• Growth, Transformation and Renewal: The Wood element encourages personal and professional development, learning, much like a snake shedding its skin.
• Creativity and Innovation: 2025 is expected to be a year of fresh perspectives and innovative problem-solving.
• Adaptability: The Wood Snake’s energy promotes flexibility in facing life’s challenges. Overall, snakes are highly specialised creatures with remarkable adaptations for survival in diverse environments. For this year and the next few years, adaptability will probably be the most important skill so continues accelerated learning is key! and action. One of the steps you can take now is to get our new book SPEED READING FASTER (coming out on 11 March – preorder now!)
• Introspection: This year encourages deep reflection and self-discovery and letting go of the old. Don’t get drawn into political theatre and dramas of 2025.
• Feng shui: Clutter clearing, letting go… (get rid of old clothes, things… donate to charities, etc). Focus on new, add new plants and rejuvenate your home and workplace.

Predictions and Influences

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Introduction
As the lunar calendar turns a new leaf, we find ourselves on the cusp of Chinese New Year 2024, falling on Saturday, February 10th. This significant cultural event heralds the beginning of the Year of the Wood Dragon, a time imbued with the unique attributes of both the mystical dragon and the grounding wood element. The Chinese zodiac, rich in symbolism and tradition, offers a profound insight into the year ahead.

The Significance of the Dragon in Chinese Culture
The dragon, revered in Chinese culture, symbolises power, nobility, and luck. It is considered the most auspicious sign in the Chinese zodiac, often associated with strength, health, and prosperity. Dragons hold a place of immense significance in Chinese culture, symbolising power, strength, and good fortune. Unlike the fearsome creatures depicted in Western mythology, Chinese dragons are seen as benevolent and wise. They are revered as harbingers of prosperity and are believed to have control over water, rainfall, typhoons, and floods. The dragon is one of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals and is associated with the emperor and royalty, embodying the qualities of nobility, honour, and success. Its image is often used in art, festivals, and architecture, serving as a potent symbol of the Chinese people’s cultural identity and deep-rooted respect for nature’s power and mystery.

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New year – new beginnings – new challenges – and new opportunities. Chinese New Year 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, more specifically, Yin Water Rabbit, starting on Sunday, January 22nd, 2023, and lasting until February 9th, 2024. Traditionally, the celebrations of Chinese New Year last for 16 days, starting from Chinese New Year’s Eve to the Lantern Festival. The most notable dates of the Lunar New Year 2023 are these three days: Chinese New Year’s Eve on January 21st, 2023, Chinese New Year’s Day on January 22nd, 2023, and The Lantern Festival on February 5th, 2023. If you don’t know your animal sign – check the Chinese zodiac.

Read the key lesson that rabbits have to offer us in 2023 below: have a bigger view of life and be vigilant (something to do with rabbit’s eyes).

Top feng shui tips to make 2023 your year.

1. Identify your feng shui (gua) star – there are different ways, but the easiest is to look at this chart below. If you’re running a business, look for the feng shui star of your business when it was set up.

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The New Chinese year – the Year of the Yang Water Tiger starts on 1 February 2022
and will last until January 21, 2023, when the Year of the Rabbit begins.

How will you make 2022 work for you?
How can you navigate it better, smoother and smarter?
How will you enhance and boost your personal and professional luck?
How can you protect yourself from negative influences, energies and environmental stressors?
And most importantly how can you apply all these in your daily personal and professional life to have a great year?

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