The End before the Beginning
2025 was The Year of the Wood Snake
A Year of Shedding, Seeing, Ending, and Beginning
(And why it perfectly aligned with a 9 Year in Numerology)
2025 arrived with a very specific frequency — ancient, serpentine, feminine, and wise. It was the Year of the Wood Snake, an archetype known across cultures as the keeper of hidden knowledge, the shifter between worlds, and the embodiment of healing through transformation. And as if that weren’t potent enough, 2025 was also a 9 year in numerology, the year of completion, death, endings, and karmic closure.
This was not a coincidence.
This was a cosmic choreography.
This was a collective initiation.
The Wood Snake: A Guide Through the Underworld and Back Again
The Snake is one of the oldest spiritual symbols on Earth — medicine, death, rebirth, fertility, shamanic initiation, kundalini, and the life force that coils at the roots of our being. In Chinese astrology, the Snake is wisdom, intuition, strategy, healing, clairvoyance, and the ability to shed what no longer fits.
But when you combine Snake with the element of Wood, the energy shifts from purely internal transformation to growth, creation, and forward movement – but only after the shedding is done.
The Wood Snake asked us…
What skin do you still pretend fits you?
What identities, roles, relationships, or illusions have you outgrown?
What wisdom is rising from the depths of your body that you’ve ignored?
What parts of your life need composting?
Wood is the element of renewal, life force, green rising, creation, new direction.
Snake is the underworld guide, the death-and-rebirth priestess.
Together, 2025 became a year where:
We died to become more alive.
We released to rise.
We faced truth to reclaim power.
This was a year of transformational honesty, the kind that changes the trajectory of lives, businesses, identities, relationships, and ancestral patterns.
So how did you do?
2025 as a 9 Year: The End Before the Beginning
In numerology, the number 9 is the final step of the cycle.
It is the door closing.
The last exhale.
The point where the universe says, “This is where the old ends.”
9 was the year of:
Completion
Karmic clearing
Letting go
Death (symbolic, spiritual, identity-level)
Integration
Final lessons
The soul’s reckoning with truth
A 9 year doesn’t ask you to be comfortable; it asks you to be honest.
It asks you to surrender what has already died instead of trying to resurrect it.
A 9 year doesn’t ask you what you want to begin —
it asks you what you are finally willing to release so that true beginnings can find you next.
Why the Wood Snake + A 9 Year Were So Potent
This combination was rare and powerful:
The Wood Snake dug up what’s hidden.
The 9 Year ended what’s no longer aligned.
Together, they stripped you down to your truth.
This was the cosmic shedding year — the year your new life demanded a sacrifice.
The year your old self died in order for your future self to breathe.
For many, 2025 was already felt like:
Major endings or transitions
Identity death
Relationship shifts
Career changes
Soul purpose redirection
Ancestral or karmic patterns surfacing
Health events that force a new path
Spiritual awakenings or initiations
This wasn’t random.
This was the work of the Snake — and the precision of the 9.
What This Year Was Really About
2025 wasn’t about “manifesting” a new identity.
It was about removing what kept you from your real one.
It’s the year of:
✨ Root healing
✨ Shadow integration
✨ Reclaiming ancient power
✨ Returning to your natural path
✨ Breaking generational roles
✨ Stepping out of false versions of yourself
✨ Rewilding your intuition and instinct
✨ Softening into your truth
✨ Rebirth through surrender
2025 was a year the universe handed you the blade and asked,
“What needed to be cut so you can breathe again?”
And you answer with your actions.
December as the Threshold
As we move through the final month of this Wood Snake / 9 year combination, we’re not meant to rush into the new year with glittery intentions and forced optimism.
We’re meant to slow down.
To witness what this year revealed.
To acknowledge what has died.
To honor what has completed.
To give gratitude to the versions of us that carried us this far — and gently release them.
Snake energy always pauses after shedding.
She rests.
She feels her new skin.
She acclimates before she moves.
This December is your integration month.
Not to push.
Not to “fix.”
Not to “start fresh.”
Just to breathe, reflect, and allow clarity to rise.
What new truth is rising beneath the shedding?
Who are you now, standing here in your new skin?