The year of the snake is about throwing bad energy

The year of the snake has started and the Vibbes are about renewal and regeneration.

Lunar New Year – which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more – begins on January 29 and starts more than two weeks with parties, customs and abundant parties.

The holidays, also known as the Spring Festival, celebrate the arrival of spring and the start of a new year based on the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar.

Although the hose may have a bad rap across many western cultures, the animal is actually a famous and honorable sign of the eastern hemisphere. And its year is expected to be one of positive transformation as people slip into new beginnings – if they are willing to move forward.

It’s about “throwing toxicity in personality, in character traits,” said Jonathan Hx Lee, an Asian and Asian American study professor at San Francisco State University, whose research partly focuses on Chinese folklore.

“It throws the ego, lets go of the past, let go of anger and let go of love,” Lee said. “This is the year when this kind of growth – personal and macro, internal and external – is very possible.”

Lee said the snake is a happy sign of inner work, whether to release unrealistic expectations of loved ones or get rid of bad habits.

The snake, which matches the years of people born in 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 and 2025, is most commonly associated with intelligence, resilience and love, said Lee. And people born these years are believed to do “what it takes to achieve a goal.”

“They are known for having this innate potential to be really successful because they can think outside the box and they will endure and they will endure,” Lee said.

More specifically, this year is the wood hose, where the tree element has an in -depth significance across the three major organized Chinese religions. In Daoism, the tree is a sign of returning to one’s natural state or true nature, while in Confucianism it symbolizes becoming a more polished person. In Buddhism, it is associated with letting go of growth.

The positive qualities associated with the snake are rooted in two folklore stories, Lee explained. In the story of the creation of the Chinese zodiac sign, the snake was once a four -legged, happy creature that became angry after other animals isolated him because of his appearance. When he accused the Jade emperor of creating him that way, the anger of the snake was transformed into physiological changes, such as growing hands, and caused him to click on the other beings.

Words reached the jade emperor who punished him by removing his legs. The heavenly ruler promised that if the snake won a racing competition against the other animals, which would eventually dictate the Zodiac order, the snake could win a prize and potentially get his legs back.

Although the hose did not win, he placed sixth and impressed the emperor with his stamina and dedication. The ruler made him one of the 12 animals in Zodiac. The race also changed the path of the snake in other ways.

“He learned to control that anger. But because that anger was a part of him for so long, he had the longing to go out and hurt and bite, ”Lee said. “When it happened, he would remain isolated and … he would grow out of his old skin to let go of that past.”

The snake is also associated with love.

In a retelling of “Legend of the White Snake,” one of China’s four most important great folk, an immortal white snake, disguised as a girl, falls in love with a man. The man dies after discovering his true identity asking her to steal from the tree of immortality in an attempt to revive him. But when she gets caught in the act of an emperor guarding the mysterious tree, she explains that her love for the man spans thousands of years because he had saved his life in the past.

“They had this cosmic connection life after longevity,” Lee said.

The emperor was so moved by the love story that he urged her to go save her husband.

“For people who grow up in this kind of cultural landscape with these types of stories and folklore, the snake is a representation of love,” Lee said.