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Year of the Wood Snake

by Susun Weed

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Green = Good Luck

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Green is good luck.
Welcome to the year of the Wood Snake.

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In five-element theory, the color of Wood is green.
Wood is growth.
Green is growth.
And expansion.

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Wood is beginning.
Green shoots are the beginning.
Spring.
Forth.

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Be flexible.
Like green wood.
And have a clear direction.
Grow up.
Create.
Adapt.

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Wood energy starts in the liver.
A green wooden snake uncoils.
The energy flows from the liver into the eyes.

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I see where I am going.
I am motivated.
Frustration fuels me.
Anger sustains me.
Love informs me.
Peace directs me.

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The gall bladder stores bitter bile.
Digestive bile.
Think of it as venom.
Your personal snake venom.
Your ability to digest greasy, grimy, gunk.

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Bite through.
Swallow it whole.
Unhinge your jaw.
Nothing is too big, too terrible for Wood Snake.

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Stretch your tendons.
Focus on strength.
Flexible strength.
Like a sinuous snake.
All muscle.
Glowing green.

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Green is wealth.
Green is fertility.
Embrace green.
Hug a pine.
Watch out for sap.

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Hold a piece of jade.
Warm it.
Let it slide its magic along your nerves.
Calm.
Peace.
Open.
Unfurl.
 
Wake up Wood Snake.
Wake up.
It's Imbolc.
The first days of spring.
Feast of fire.

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Wake up Wood Snake.
Flash your tongue and taste my curiosity.
Spread yourself in the sun.

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Wake up Wood Snake.
Flash your scales and illuminate my eyes.
Bring me good fortune this year.

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Wake up Wood Snake.
Accompany me as I visit my parents.
Guide me to the realm of the Ancestors.

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Wake up Wood Snake.
Show me how to offer honor to my lineage.
Be part of my gratitude to all those whose lives brought forth mine.
Wake up Wood Snake.
May this year be in beauty.
May it be in green.
May I breathe in a giveaway dance with the green.
May I become greener.
May all hearts beat as one with the heartbeat of the earth.

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Green blessings surround me.
Wood Snake wake up.
Wake up
Gratitude
Joy
 

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