My Wood Snake Ally in the Woods Out Back
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, February 17, 2026, marks what I believe will be seen as a pivotal moment in humanity’s story. A choice point both individual and collective. Immediate and long term. We are deciding our future (and our children’s, grandchildren’s, great grandchildren’s, and great-greats for generations to come) . How will we meet the moment? How will we participate in unfolding the human story?
This New Moon is also the Chinese New Year, Losar in Tibetan traditions. This year we leave behind the Year of the Wood Snake, a year of shedding skin – literally and figuratively, consciously or unconsciously (likely both for most of us).
Having shed what weighs us down, we mount the Fire Horse for what is likely to be a wild and tumultuous ride. Changed in ways we may not yet see, today’s New Moon and solar eclipse invite us to choose the paths we will ride into our individual and collective future.
Will we attempt reform by tweaking old, corrupt systems that, as I’ve said many times, were created in the false story of separation, favoring domination and power over no matter how much we tweak them? Or will we choose paths that lay the old to rest and to compost, creating the void for bringing forth and building new systems aligned with All Life?
In this moment, this week, and the week’s ahead we are blessed with planetary alignments that can support us in choosing the latter. They are calling us into active participation. Our task is to listen with care and discernment about who and what we listen to. And then, to act. To rest. To act again, rest again. And then, to rinse and repeat.
I invite you to join me during this auspicious New Moon Day in looking ahead and setting clear intentions for the world you want to participate in co-creating in these pivotal times.
Personally, my intentions will be focused on how I will support regenerative efforts locally, regionally, and globally. I see a world longing for just, fair, community-based economic, agricultural, legal and other systems and practices not only for we humans, but for All Life. I intend to listen, to learn, to seed, and to nurture what wants to emerge, finding and supporting aligned allies that are already engaged in these efforts. Perhaps creating new ones. Step by step. Day by day with an open heart and curious mind.
The future human story is ours to write. This is our opportunity to help bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice that is grounded in the truth of Oneness not in the false story of separation. Yes, we can! Yes, we will!
May you be well, happy, and at peace. May all beings be well, happy, and at peace.
My Fire Horse Ally for the Year Ahead!