Shed Your Skin, Find Your Roots, and Plant New Seeds: Letao Wang on The Year of the Wood Snake and Healing

In this episode, I have the great pleasure of talking to Letao Wang who specializes in Chinese and Western astrology, mythology, Tarot Cards and who is also the founder of The Healing Kingdom where he provides a wide range of counselling services. He also created two oracles with beautiful decks and guidebooks: The Oracle of the Mythic Heroes and The Oracle of the Celestial Deities. With the Chinese New Year of the Wood Snake approaching, I took the opportunity to ask him about his projections and predictions regarding opportunities and potential challenges in the coming year. As he explains, there will be a significant shift from Dragon yang energy associated with authority and power to a more receptive period with the wise and intuitive Snake representing yin energy. Moreover, it will be a time for shedding the old skin but also finding and connecting with one’s roots and foundations. We also discuss the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western approaches and Letao explains how they are complementary and can be combined to present a fuller picture. In fact, the mental health field would greatly benefit from incorporating and integrating spirituality to make its paradigm more holistic. Finally, we talk about synchronicity and serendipity as well as how we can have a sense of destiny and fate by also allowing room for free will and personal agency. We cannot merely blame the stars for our conditions and situations but need to take personal responsibility and not be driven by a false sense of justice where we feel we have been wronged or that the world is unfair or biased against us. As Letao explains we are seeds that contain many possibilities and potentialities within and although we do not choose the seed, we can take care of it, cultivate it, and make it bloom and flourish.