Pastel, 19.75″ x 15″
Awakening
As we wind down the Year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology, a #9 year of culminations and endings in numerology; and we ready ourselves for the Year of the Fire Horse, numerologically a #1 year of new beginnings— this image came to me and wouldn’t leave me alone until I painted it.
The rising energy of the serpents is all about transformation,
shedding layers that no longer serve, and emerging newly awakened.What humankind needs now is to move past our false feelings of separation—separation from Nature, and thereby from our own true nature, our true selves, and from each other.
Let’s wake up, open our eyes, see our wholeness, our oneness with all that is.
Let’s rise above the old feelings of separation—separation by race, by culture, by gender, by belief systems . . .
Are you feeling it, humanity’s consciousness shifting upward toward this?These two serpents are symbolic of primal life-force; they represent yin and yang, feminine and masculine—opposites and ‘otherness’. As they coil and arise, entwined, from the forest floor, spiralling together in tandem up the Tree-of-Life conduit, let us feel our personal and collective energy rising.
Let’s feel ourselves Awakening.


