Traveling Salvation Show

For the Snake, 2022 was quite…dynamic? Maybe your world has been shaken up; a reshuffling of the deck so to speak. What’s next? Is it time to for you to hit the road?

It is the Snake’s job to solve problems and give advice in 2023, and travel is somehow related to that. Although you may not be traveling to distant lands, travel is calling your name. Commuting is travel too.

Therefore, Snakes, what I want you to do this Water Rabbit year is pay attention to what’s around you. I don’t see you needing much assistance as long as you stay aware of your surroundings. Be present in time and space wherever you are. Using your enhanced powers of observation will keep you safe from harm. Trust that even if it sounds weird.

You may have a bigger view than usual, by which I mean a loftier perspective, so don’t forget to pay attention to small things too. We really need you to keep solving those mysteries. Some of them are medical. Hint hint. Can you help us get the facts straight?

The Snake in a Water Rabbit year is a Nobleman. For a Snake, this is something like being a consultant, again. You have a big level perspective and the skills to deal with bigger issues, however, most Snakes will find that their talents are needed on a more local, smaller level; in multiple locations. Throughout the year you’ll want to keep taking your big perspective and applying it in focused ways, on behalf of yourself and others. This year there could be more repetition than you’d like.

If Snake is in your month, you may be traveling for work. If Snake is in your year, maybe your parents will visit you or you will visit them. If Snake is in your day, you may be traveling for love or self development. If Snake is in your hour, maybe travel is your inner life – or maybe you have children who will travel.

Whatever the case, I know Snakes appreciate and enjoy travel and it appears to be available for you in 2023. It may be easier for you than for other signs in a year where we will see travel systems undergo a major overhaul. Travel is probably more likely in the first half of the year unless the itch runs deep for you. Can travel satisfy the longing you have now for friends and associates who are gone or far away?

It’s hard to be away from your roots, the feeling of touching them, and the people who embody them. The separation from what we knew as safety makes us all feel like we are just just barely hanging on to sanity, no matter what your belief system.

But wait, what if you’re not crazy? Maybe you’re just tired of waiting. You can feel time slipping away. Are you over it? Over everything? I hear a lot of people these days saying “I’m done”. Who even knows exactly what they are referring to, but frankly, I’m done too. What I mean is, I’m ready to move on but I’m flailing like everyone else. Let’s reorient together in 2023 for goodness sake.

Maybe a better way to describe the feeling that I’m talking about is calling it the simmering dissatisfaction that comes with having endured a situation for too long. It can turn to anger even when you’ve explored other outlets. This kind of energy can allow us to think of violence as a potential solution; anything is permissible in the interest of making change happen. If that’s where you are, I want you to consider how you can use that energy in a way that doesn’t hurt you or anyone else.

To channel that wild impatience, remember that distinguishing facts from misinformation and disinformation are very much in your wheelhouse. Present your findings. Use up this tension to fight back against the injustice that comes from lies – without killing anyone or ruining your life. Maybe it’s time to think about teaching? Maybe you should run for office. What better way to foil the bad guys? Maybe it’s time for a change of career. Has it become apparent that your values are no longer in line with your employer?

I would even suggest that directing your dissatisfaction to benefit a good cause might make you less accident prone this year. Otherwise that could be an issue. To offset potential injury, you can give blood, catch up on dental procedures and trim nails and hair regularly. If you are a cook, slow down and focus on what you are doing in the kitchen or ask someone else to do the chopping. This year you might realize that alone is not always the safe place you imagine it to be.

Your loneliness over these past few years may have been your choice. Maybe you chose it for the peace. It’s probably best to acknowledge that, if you haven’t already. And why wouldn’t you? Maybe it was just time for that in your life. That doesn’t mean you have to like being lonely. If being alone is not your preference, find a way to meet more people. Hiding out doesn’t really help with that, does it? And let’s not forget, avoiding intimacy is another way of hiding and by intimacy, yes, I do mean more than sex.

Career in 2023 may be more satisfying than relationship, probably due to the choices you are making. Are you sure you want closeness, or is it something less deep? For the masculine Snake, it appears to be a year of possibly sleeping alone. If you don’t want that, as you probably already know, this is not something that’s appropriately managed by force.* You can manage it by asking yourself what it is you’re supposed to learn from this time, or you could ask a Rabbit about intimacy. I think they will have unfamiliar, and therefore fresh, ideas for you.

While your associate the Rooster may be having a difficult year, your elemental nature means there’s a potential boost of income or at least, maybe an upgrade to your home or job. Among your associates and friends, you have the most to gain financially this year. There will be some peaks in 2023, but they may be lonely unless you’re interested in changing that. Regarding health, take some extra care not to get exhausted.

A downside of the year may be illness or loss of elders, other family members or friends. In that context, these days it’s probably best to get up to date with the people we care about on a regular basis. You never know what’s going to happen. If that kind of loss hasn’t touched your life in these last three years, you’ve been lucky. Cherish all those you love and make sure they know you do.

No matter what is going on, take your time with decisions, contracts, mergers and the like. You may be a bit prone to misjudgment so, even if it’s not like you to trust someone else over yourself, get a second opinion in case of important matters. You don’t have to follow the advice, just listen. Maybe there will be something useful.

Being a Nobleman in 2023, you can help people and there will be people ready to help you too. Snakes have advice to give about practical matters and money, but probably not about romance. It seems like that’s not your area of expertise at this time, however, Snakes who have healthy and happy partnerships will surely have some helpful tips to offer about how they got there.

Lastly, and maybe most important, Snakes have second chances that they didn’t have last year. You might apply that to anything where you want a do over or just use it to be more daring this year. Maybe apply that luck to a second chance with the one who got away, that is, if you’re still interested.

Job Title: Wandering Star
Allies: Snake, Rooster, Ox, Monkey
Best Months: May, August, September
Romance: Intimacy means you’re not afraid of committing to a position. Wait until you’re ready. June might make you think about it.

Timing for all signs: Whatever you want to accomplish this year will need to be started no later than March. Plan on finishing by July ideally, but no later than the end of August.

*It seems 1965 Wood Snake Brett Kavanaugh never learned this.