Chinese Lunar New Year - Year Of The Snake

[Jack]

The Moon moved into Aquarius at 7:37 am today.

Wife and I did a crystal singing bowl meditation along with a mala bead intention exercise. It was a worldwide meditation as the moon traversed the zodiac into the new era.


The Year of the Snake is the year 2025 according to the Chinese zodiac calendar. It began on January 29, 2025, which is the first new moon of the lunar calendar. The Year of the Snake is a time for growth, renewal, and transformation, and is celebrated across many Asian cultures.

What is the Chinese zodiac calendar?

The Chinese zodiac calendar is a 12-year cycle that associates each year with a specific animal.

• The cycle repeats with the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
• The characteristics of people born in a particular year are said to be influenced by the animal associated with that year.

What is the Year of the Wood Snake?

• The year 2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake. The wood element is said to add versatility, growth, and creativity to the snake's traits.
  
  • In Daoism, wood represents returning to one's natural state, while in Confucianism it represents becoming more polished. In Buddhism, it's associated with letting go for growth.
    

What is the Year of the Snake celebrated with?
The Year of the Snake is celebrated with family, friends, food, and prayers.

• Families and friends gather for feasts and exchange gifts during the first two days of the new year.
• Cash-filled red envelopes are a common sight.

 

[Jack]

South Koreans and their 'Holiday Nagging Menu'​

Hyunjung Kim
BBC Korean
The Lunar New Year holiday in South Korea brings families and relatives together to exchange gift money and well-wishes - but some of those well-wishes are less than welcome. Sometimes, they are downright nagging.

The “Holiday Nagging Menu” first appeared on social media years ago, consisting of unsolicited advice and questions commonly asked at the New Year gatherings: “Where do you stand in your class?”, “Which university are you aiming for?”,

“When are you going to get a job?”, “Shouldn’t you be married by now?”, “You should lose some weight.”, “What’s your annual salary?”, “Isn’t it time to have a baby?”

Such irksome questions have become such a common gripe that some young people have put a price on them - a subtle plea to just keep those comments to yourself.

Experts note that South Korean society has rigid age-based milestones, and these questions highlight the pressure to conform to a “normal” life, with expectations imposed at every stage.

During this traditional holiday, there is a tendency to try to “catch up on neglected adulting”, leading to advice-giving. Unfortunately, these words often fall flat as everyone returns to their fragmented, modern lives after the holiday.

 

[Jack]

Tết is like 'a second Christmas'​

Maura Fogarty
BBC News, Singapore

For many in the Vietnamese diaspora, Tết is a time to reconnect with family and tradition - cheerful decorations, lots of food and family gatherings.

In my childhood home in Southern California, where there is a large Vietnamese-American population, there would be graceful arrangements of pussy willow, with their fluffy, white buds that felt silky to our touch.

They represented the arrival of prosperity. Hanging tantalisingly off these branches, were little red packets filled with money.
My siblings and I would try to guess how much money they contained and eagerly await our chance to get one.

Because Tết always fell within the first two months of the year, it felt like a second Christmas.

 

[X]

The Moon moved into Aquarius at 7:37 am today.

Wife and I did a crystal singing bowl meditation along with a mala bead intention exercise. It was a worldwide meditation as the moon traversed the zodiac into the new era.


The Year of the Snake is the year 2025 according to the Chinese zodiac calendar. It began on January 29, 2025, which is the first new moon of the lunar calendar. The Year of the Snake is a time for growth, renewal, and transformation, and is celebrated across many Asian cultures.

What is the Chinese zodiac calendar?

The Chinese zodiac calendar is a 12-year cycle that associates each year with a specific animal.

• The cycle repeats with the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
• The characteristics of people born in a particular year are said to be influenced by the animal associated with that year.

What is the Year of the Wood Snake?

• The year 2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake. The wood element is said to add versatility, growth, and creativity to the snake's traits.
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  • In Daoism, wood represents returning to one's natural state, while in Confucianism it represents becoming more polished. In Buddhism, it's associated with letting go for growth.

What is the Year of the Snake celebrated with?
The Year of the Snake is celebrated with family, friends, food, and prayers.

• Families and friends gather for feasts and exchange gifts during the first two days of the new year.
• Cash-filled red envelopes are a common sight.

No one cares what you and your fake wife did tell it to FB buddy

 

[Jack]

No one cares what you and your fake wife did tell it to FB buddy

Yet here you are posting in this thread. What a fucking nonce you are, cumsock.

 

[X]

Yet here you are posting in this thread. What a fucking nonce you are, cumsock.

 

[Larry Loungelizard]

Year of the snake and the start of Trump's second term.

Coincidence?

 

[aShabbilyAttiredDwarf]

The Moon moved into Aquarius at 7:37 am today.

Wife and I did a crystal singing bowl meditation along with a mala bead intention exercise. It was a worldwide meditation as the moon traversed the zodiac into the new era.

Are you a wizard with a pointy hat? There is one said to live deep in the most remote and dark regions of the great forest. Are you he?

 

[Murdy]

Are you a wizard with a pointy hat? There is one said to live deep in the most remote and dark regions of the great forest. Are you he?

People have been looking to the stars since the begging of time.

Astrology is quite fascinating.

 

[aShabbilyAttiredDwarf]

People have been looking to the stars since the begging of time.

Astrology is quite fascinating.

I shall take up the subject with the Fairy Queen on the evening of our midsummer celebration.

 

[Admin.]

My token Asian friend posted this

Here’s a few things I know, prepare a feast for family and friends before the New Year, wear Red for Good Luck, give lucky money Red Envelopes with an even amount of money to young children, deep clean your house to start the year fresh and new, the date is different every year, the zodiac animal changes each year, this year is the Year of the Green Wood Snake (curious, wise and graceful), respect your elders, Live, Love and Laugh.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Gung Hey Fa Choy! (Translation, I Hope you get rich).
To my fellow Roosters (1957) Live Long and Prosper.

 

[Jack]

People have been looking to the stars since the begging of time.

Astrology is quite fascinating.

Some people just don't get spirituality.

Hence the lashing out, because their lack of understanding creates fear.

It's all good.

If you do a meditation around the Chinese new year, be aware that the wood aspect of the snake enhances the positive aspects of the sign. So the intention will be amplified and if you embrace it, will probably manifest in your life.