The Liminal Moon Solar Flares, Snake 🐍 Wisdom and Horse 🐎 Fire 🔥
New Moon – February 17, 2026 (16:01 UTC) marks a New Moon that aligns with Lunar New Year, shifting from the Year of the Snake into the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. That overlap is rare enough to feel symbolically clean: a dark sky reset paired with a cultural energetic new cycle.
🐍 The Snake year has been about shedding. Strategic, quiet, internal recalibration. For many of us it has not looked dramatic on the outside, but it has re-patterned perception. Snake energy strips illusion. It exposes subtle motives, hidden contracts, unconscious attachments. What falls away under Snake rarely does so loudly—it dissolves.
🐎 The Horse is different. Horse moves. Horse externalizes. Horse is fire and momentum. So this New Moon isn’t just introspective—it’s transitional. We’re not only releasing; we’re about to act on what remains.
On the human level you may notice:
  • Less tolerance for stagnant dynamics
  • A sharper instinct to move physically, travel, initiate projects
  • Restlessness that feels like stored propulsion
  • Sudden clarity about where you no longer belong
Now layer in the solar activity. We are currently in Solar Cycle 25’s heightened phase, and 2025–2026 has shown increased solar flare and geomagnetic storm activity. There is measurable correlation between geomagnetic fluctuations and human sleep architecture. During strong geomagnetic disturbances, melatonin regulation can shift, REM cycles can fragment, and dream vividness can intensify. Some studies have observed increased reports of lucid dreams and altered-state experiences during high solar activity periods.
For those working with astral projection, this becomes interesting for two reasons:
  1. Geomagnetic instability can slightly loosen the predictable rhythm of the nervous system, creating more spontaneous hypnagogic openings.
  2. Increased solar radiation influences the ionosphere. Early Gateway research referenced the Earth–ionosphere cavity as part of the resonant field in which brainwave entrainment operates. When that cavity is more active, subtle-state perception can feel amplified.
This particular New Moon sits at a liminal point—Snake ending, Horse beginning. Liminal phases often correlate with identity shifts. You are not fully who you were, and not yet stabilized into who you are becoming. That threshold alone can make non-physical perception feel closer.
What is being released now:
  • Old identity narratives tied to survival strategies
  • Group belonging rooted in fear rather than resonance
  • The need to prove spiritual capacity
What begins emerging:
  • Autonomous movement
  • Cleaner intent
  • Projection with less friction
A lesser-known detail: New Moons are often considered “less ideal” for astral work because there is no reflected lunar light. Yet many experienced projectors report deeper void-state entries during New Moon cycles. The darkness supports what Frank Kepple once described as the “blackness behind the eyelids becoming dimensional.” When external reflection is absent, internal depth increases.
The first New Moon fully inside the Horse year may feel different — less shedding, more ignition. If this one is the silent exhale, the next may be the first stride 💫
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The Liminal Moon Solar Flares, Snake 🐍 Wisdom and Horse 🐎 Fire 🔥
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