The Medicine of the Snake in the Number 9 Year: How 2025 Helped Us Peel Away Old Identities

Across 2025, many of us experienced deeply powerful shifts. Old emotions resurfaced. Familiar patterns no longer fit. Ways of being that once felt protective, once necessary, began to feel heavy or misaligned.

This wasn’t a breakdown. It was a clearing. A return to something more honest.

In numerology, 9 is the number of completion. It marks the end of a cycle — not with urgency, but with wisdom. It invites us to reflect, to soften our grip, and to consciously release what no longer serves the person we are becoming. Paired with the medicine of the Snake, 2025 became a year of deep shedding and potent initiation and transformation.

The Snake does not shed its skin because it is broken. It sheds because it has grown. Its old form can no longer contain the life moving through it. And so, naturally, it releases. Not through force, but through readiness.

In this Number 9 year, we were guided to do the same. To gently let go of beliefs, identities, coping mechanisms, and inherited ways of surviving. Much of this work has been about recognising what we’ve carried that isn’t truly ours — family patterns, emotional habits, roles we stepped into to feel safe, loved, or accepted.

Slowly, with care, many of us reached a quiet realisation: I don’t need this anymore.

This process did not always feel graceful. It showed up as fatigue, emotional release, the desire to withdraw, or the clarity that certain paths were built from fear rather than truth. But beneath the discomfort was something deeply sacred — a recalibration of self.

In Module 4, we explored this through the lens of ancestral healing. Not as something heavy or clinical, but as compassionate awareness. Honouring where we come from while consciously choosing how we move forward. There is power in acknowledging our lineage, and even greater power in deciding what continues and what ends with us.

A Number 9 year does not rush rebirth. It honours the ending first.

It allows space to grieve old versions of self. To sit in the in-between. To breathe before the next chapter unfolds.

As we approach 2026, we find ourselves suspended in this threshold — no longer who we used to be, not yet who we are becoming. And within this space lives clarity, quiet renewal, and a deeper connection to our inner truth.

The 12 Month Journey continues to offer a supportive space for those who feel called to walk this transition with intention and care. Not as a quick fix or forced solution, but as a steady container for reflection, grounding, and gentle growth. There is nothing to chase here. Only an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and trust your unfolding.

If 2025 felt emotional, heavy, or strangely illuminating, it was likely because you were peeling away layers that were never truly you.

And beneath that skin?
A more honest self. A clearer voice. A truer way of being.

Shedding is not losing. It is remembering not who you were told to be — but who you have always been becoming.