What if the snake was never the villain?
In this episode of From Within She Rises, Jessie redeems the serpent; not as temptation or evil, but as initiation, awakening, and embodied wisdom.
Drawing from the Book of Genesis, Gnostic texts, Kundalini energy, shadow work, and lived somatic experience, Jessie explores why the snake appears at moments of consciousness expansion and why snake years feel like loss, illness, burnout, and identity death before they feel like freedom.
This episode also marks a collective transition:
from a Snake Year / Year 9 of deep shedding and closure
into a Horse Year / Year 1 of movement, momentum, and embodied forward motion.
If the past year stripped you, destabilized you, or revealed truths you couldn’t unsee: this episode offers language, compassion, and a way to integrate what has already awakened.
The snake in the Book of Genesis as awakening, not punishment
Why the serpent asks questions and why systems of control never do
The Gnostic serpent aligned with Sophia and embodied wisdom
How shadow work and snake energy shed identity layer by layer
Why Kundalini is depicted as a serpent rising through the body
The somatic cost of awakening and why it’s often misunderstood
Snake Year + Year 9: completion, grief, and clean endings
The transition into Horse Year + Year 1: freedom, movement, and voice
Why movement without integration recreates old cycles
How to move forward as who you’ve become not who you were shedding
A free reflection guide is available to help integrate the Snake Year before accelerating into the Horse Year.