 So, this crazy year of 2020 is drawing to a close and we're looking forward to a brand new year. And what's ahead for us in 2021? Well, we just went through this incredible shift at the winter solstice of 2020, which a lot of people are feeling, myself included, that we're actually entering into the age of Aquarius. And so, of course, the age of Aquarius has been pretty hyped up. But if this is really a birthing, we're birthing the new earth. And if you have ever been a parent or have been around newborns, you know that it's not always easy those first few, you know, that first little time. And so, let's kind of look forward at the energies of 2021, and not just 2021, but the next few years I'm feeling is going to have very similar energies to it. So in this video I'm going to share just kind of what I've been given to relay about these new earth energies, these very baby newborn new earth energies that we're all moving through right now. And sharing some artwork that has got messages about it, and also a constellation of spirit animals, especially revolving around one specific spirit animal that I think has a lot to say about, you know, can help us to guide through this time. So join me here, and let's move into it. If you're not familiar with me, my name is Ona, and I am a visionary artist and energy worker, and I do work a lot with the spirit animal world. So join me for this. And I guess before we go into the spirit animal aspect of this, I just wanted to share something that I went into my journal, I work with the Akashic guides, and asked specifically for guidance around the energies of 2021. And the first thing I gave me was this image here, and I blew it up here as you can see it, but it's this human image with kind of like a hexagonal shield. Then they gave me a pretty interesting message that I'm just going to read to you. And I think in a future video very soon, I will release a video more about the meaning of that shield and why that's important. But here's the first thing they said that for humanity, these are the energies of a lifetime. So this is really, really a momentous time right now, something to pay attention to. They're telling me that 2021 represents a tri-fold split in humanity here. And three energies that we're working with for humanity. One is the energy of despair. One is the energy of longing, and one is the energy of action. And they explained this, they told me that those who have already realized their divinity, that is their true identity, they will be cleared for action. So if you feel like you really know who you are and that you've worked through a lot of your, been through all your dark nights of the soul, you may be looking at a very action-filled year ahead. And also I'm getting, if you watch my last video at the end of it, there may be a lot of prosperity in store for you this year. So those who have already realized their divinity, their true identity will be cleared for action. Those who have not will be torn, they say, between despair and longing, okay? So this may not be the easiest year, okay? We just came out of an interesting, very, very challenging year for many. And it looks like this may also be challenging for a large portion of humanity as well. This is not to worry though, okay? It's all going to come out fine, but this is sort of a warning. Those who have not already realized their divinity will be torn between despair and longing. Those who choose despair will succumb to darkness. But those who choose longing will suffer, will suffer. And through suffering find freedom, okay? So this is really a matter of free will choice. And if you are in the point of your journey where you're still really in this phase of finding your true identity, then know that as long as you are choosing the longing for spirit, the longing to connect with spirit, and consciously choosing this over the energies of despair, you're going to be fine, you're going to find freedom, okay? And so the more you can really connect with that longing for the divine, they say there's no ways around it, we must go through it. And I think this does not mean like this really is not such a dark message that it sounds, even though there's a lot of darkness that we're working through. And I think the messages, the spirit animals are going to really help to clarify this message from spirit here around 2021. So let's move on to that. And you were recently who mentioned that Snake was coming forward for them personally as the spirit animal of 2021. This is something I've noticed as well. You've probably noticed if you've been following me, I've mentioned Snake quite a lot. So Snake and its relationship with a certain other spirit animals, including Eagle and Horse, I feel holds the key to understanding of much as what is happening on the planet right now. So I'm going to share a couple of paintings in progress that are related to Snake. And I had thought originally that these were going to be solstice paintings and they kind of were because they're addressing this whole energy, but it's really talking about the shifting into the new earth. And so I was intending to have these paintings finished by the solstice and they just didn't happen. And so when I asked about that, they said because it's these are really energies are going to be talking moving us through the next few years. We've got this bifurcation happening, the old world splitting from the new world, right? The new world, the new earth kind of splitting up the old earth falling away. And this is a birthing that's happening. And like I mentioned, you can look at my solstice, I will video for a little bit more about that. But before we move into it, let's just recap Snake energy a little bit so that we're on the same page. If you like, I'm also going to link to my Snake video so that you can go more in depth with this amazing spirit animal if you'd like. But like all spirit animals, spirit animals are actually neutral spirits, okay? So they've got both positive negative aspects to them. And when we work with them, they help us by, first of all, they can show us the negative, right? Because sometimes the negative, we don't want to see it. The ego doesn't want to see it. The spirit animals are great at bringing that forward so that we can actually see it because once you are able to be aware of it, that's when you can work on these energies and transmute them, turn them positive, okay? And then the positive aspect of the spirit animal, it can be real helper spirit, okay? So when you're connecting with a spirit animal, you can intend to really connect with that positive and ask it to be your helper because they really will. So positive aspects of Snake. Snake is like this, it represents the basic instincts. This is the neutral aspects, actually, basic instincts, survival of the sexual energy. And it really correlates with these lower chakras, the lower three chakras, if you're using the traditional chakra system of energy. They're also really connected with earth energy, okay? And so the really positive aspects, if we can put that label on it, what I mean by that is the life-enhancing aspect of the snake is we can look at it as a life force, okay? If you think of the snake as a very paired-down creature, life force energy moving through it when we think of the Kundalini, okay? Regeneration, big one, regeneration, healing, they are amazing healer animals. Rebirth, if you think of the shedding and the kind of that whole regeneration, rebirth, Christ consciousness, which is connected with that, and the receiving of light, which is also the receiving of life, if you think of a snake and it's lying out in the sun and just soaking in those rays, okay? These are all very positive aspects of snake. Snake is such a powerful life force symbol that its shadow side represents death, okay? So that's where we get if you are, like you may have noticed that a lot of people who are into the dark magic are really into snakes, okay? And this is why, because if you turn the positive snake energy backwards, it's going to be the death agenda, okay? And so we have to be very, very aware of this when working with snake energies, and we can transmute it one way or the other, okay? So just being aware of this. So on its negative side, the life-disabling aspect of snake is we're looking at death, we're looking at degeneration, paralysis, right? As the life force is like this forward moving, the negative aspect can be very paralyzing. Untruth relies, like speaking with a forked tongue, undermining and sabotage trees, right? Snake in the grass. So all these kind of very manipulative, sneaky, venomous, that kind of energy, you know, and outright death. So the death aspect of snake comes in two ways. One is the very overt, striking kind of death, right? We know that. But then the undermining kind is the covert death. And this actually, if you're thinking overt, covert narcissism, yes, there is a connection with that. And these are patterns that if you, and I'm talking especially about the narcissistic patterns, things like the hero-savior complex, the victim, right? The victim-victimizer complex. Some of these things that move in that are connected with narcissism or other kind of relationships gone wrong, kind of things that you may have experienced, you, I'm going to challenge you to, if you're familiar with some of those patterns in relationships, to start looking at the larger patterns of society at large and see if you can't see some of these relationships mirroring, you know, we know the concept as above so below. We're going to be seeing this, you know, especially playing out in the next few years. I mean, we already have. But so this is a painting here, and I call it Warning. And so the snakes in the painting here, these are the four types of snakes that, the venomous snakes that are native to North America where I live. These are the rattlesnake, and this happens to be a Western diamondback. The copperhead, the water moccasin, and the coral snake. And this is really, to me, these are speaking to aspects of consciousness that are really not friendly, that are actually part of the death agenda or the anti-life consciousness on earth. Okay, so these, in this particular instance, the snake is really representing kind of dark energies that we need to be aware of. And being in, there's four of them and in all four corners. So we think of the four corners of the world. This is really speaking to me of, you know, just really pervasive throughout the planet and also specifically North America as well. Also, they're spanning both water, land, and sky, and to me, that's really talking about the toxicity, right? And both physically, literally on the earth, we've got, you know, the toxins that are actually, that we are actually drenching the earth with toxins as well as spiritually and psychically, just toxic energies that are really, it's really difficult to get away from them at all. Okay, so to me, here's Mother Earth and she is issuing this choice and she's saying that, you know, that it's going to have to be a conscious choice here to, that we need to be aware of what's going on and also to act. She's got this falcon on her shoulder. And then the other element that the other animal here, that's, well, there's two other animals here that are both birds, the falcon, which is really a creature of vision, right? And it's also extremely decisive, right? So it's really asking for decisive action. And then we've got the vulture, which is, it's solar energy. Now you think of vulture also as a creature of death, but the vulture has, it's really in, you know, if you really feel into that bird, it's about purification, right? In nature, it is a purifier. The vulture takes death and it actually transmutes it, okay? So especially in this one where it's actually the vulture and the sun have become one, we're looking at some real times of purification that we are in right now and that we're going to be increasingly seeing, okay? Cleansing purification and, you know, if you've been through any kind of dark night with the soul, you know that what that means that it can be a challenging time, but that it is also, you know, cleansing, purifying, it's necessary, it's necessary things to happen. And so this is, you know, a do not fear, a fear not kind of moment that we have to realize that, you know, what's happening now is playing out due to, you know, it's just a necessary change in, you know, what's happening on the earth that we will move through it and this is actually a healing kind of time that we're doing. It's a time of great purification here on Mother Earth, right? Birds, there's a lot about birds coming forward and birds, I don't know a huge amount about this, but there's a, you hear about the bird tribe and which is associated with the Pleiadians, right, and here to help humanity and so the other animals that are coming forward a lot are all birds, not all birds, there's horse too, which I'll get to in a bit, but so these are two of the birds and then the other one is the eagle here and this is actually a pretty big painting here that I did right around the solstice just before and here's, and I think it's still in progress here, but what we've got is a couple eagles and the eagle is grasping the snake, we've got this lightning coming down and it's hitting the earth here and what this really brought forward to my mind was the lightning itself, this is an act of creation, right? It's the energy, the new energy coming down and if you think about how life evolved on earth, you know, at least how we're told it evolved, there was energy that just kind of came down to earth and it created this organic, you know, turned from inorganic into organic, the creation of the beginning of life, right? So what we're looking at right now is the end of a great cycle and going back a little bit to some of the energies, it's reflecting some of the energies of the very beginning of life, right? And so everything goes in cycles, right? And in our own lives we have cycles where we return, right? And the patterns kind of repeat themselves that we have a chance to redo things and so we are at this literally birthing of a new earth and so the eagle comes in and first of all it's, this is a golden eagle, okay? So it really has this connection with the sun and with the light and of course the sun showed up in both paintings here but the eagle itself is really connected with the higher perspective and it's a very connected with the creator, connected with God, with the divine and I've always seen it, for me personally it's been a divine way shower, so where when eagle shows up I know I'm on the path. It's also kind of like a heavenly warrior kind of kind of spirit and so eagle showing up I feel is a really, really, really positive sign and you see he's got the eagle in his talons and there are some eagles that actually do eat snakes and so eagle and snake are one of these predator-prey relationships that are really great to work with when we work with spirit animals, okay? And I also want to kind of tell you about this progression of Scorpio energy, okay? Because Scorpio is the sign of the dozodiac that's associated with procreation right with the sex act and also with death, okay? So the death life spectrum and that's exactly what's going on right now. We've got this if you want to look at it this battle between like we've been in the sort of birthing room of birthing a new earth but then we've also got this polarity and this battle between dark and light right or between the life energies and the anti-life energies, okay? And so this energy of Scorpio is kind of pervading this whole thing and my dear friend and mentor Jennifer Miesel kind of brought this to my attention that there's a progression of animal symbols within that sign of Scorpio and it begins with Scorpion which represents the deepest level of instinct, right? The fears, it's kind of this earth dweller it hides away in the shadows and when we progress to the next level after Scorpion that it kind of transmutes into snake and there's where we're activating this procreation, the sexual energy, the power to create to create life or to create death, right? And so that's where you get this whole snake symbolism that we've just been covering. Then the next phase of the progression is really interesting it moves on to eagle, okay? And because the eagle and the snake do have a connection and they both have this very kind of you know they're both predators and but the eagle is like this next step in transmuting that snake energy and it what it does is it brings it from earth up to sky, right? And so we're moving we're shifting the we're shifting from a material to a spiritual plane and that's what's happening on the earth here, okay? With this eagle consuming the snake, right? It's a transmutation and then the last in the in the cycle is the phoenix which is basically kind of eagle energy that's that's stepped up a little bit and that that completes the circle of the life and death circle, okay? So the thing to remember is that the eagle and the snake aren't enemies, okay? They depend on each other the species depend on each other and so what this tells us what we can learn from this is that death in its rightful place death death when it's in its rightful place in the circle of life is a supporter of life, okay? So it's really easy I think a lot of what's gone us you know astray in our our cultural kind of spiritual understanding is the sphere of death has crept in and if we really understand death as a part of life is what it is is that we as souls are always one with Creator and so that the soul the really inner part of ourselves is never going to die the body dies and falls away but then it's like it's that that's just part of the cycle right so the soul we can see as part of like just sort of like the Sun it's always there behind the clouds right and this eagle is like swooping in and it's showing us that behind all the clouds and all the stuff there's always light there's always light so overcoming the fear of death really is going to be helping to bring balance back to earth to bring us back to the path of life right but we have to learn to accept death and to actually make friends with it in a way in order to overcome the fear of it you know and and to bring it back into its rightful place as a supporter of life because death really is there to support life and so part of helping to kind of move through and overcome the fear of death is to recognize that you can't destroy energy that's a lot of physics you can't destroy energy the energy can move and it can change shape okay so when the eagle eats the snake it's a transmutation okay he does not destroy the snake the snake now becomes the eagle and so it's victory not through destruction and not through banishing but through incorporation and transmutation and bringing it to a higher level raising the expectations raising the consciousness so this is what we're working with right now and in each of our own personal lives we're going to be asked to you know calm to terms with a lot of these things like within ourselves there's going to be we're going to be seeing death in many many ways both literal and symbolic okay and so part of really transmuting this is to learn to accept you know accept what's happening and to understand the eternal within the material right to be you know to bring on our eagle selves right that understands that the light is always there right and to transmute we all have this little snake energy within us right this little you know the base fears the little instincts and and that's not bad I'm studying Kundalini yoga and they've got this beautiful this kriya of ten bodies that I'm doing and the ton ten bodies we've got one soul body right and that's the eternal and then we've got they say three mental bodies and the six energetic bodies so the three mental bodies are the neutral body the negative okay the neutral mind the negative mind and the positive mind and maybe I'll make a video about that sometime but the negative mind is there actually to protect us and to show us you know where the danger is it just when it gets overblown and we start identifying with it that's that's when the problem is okay so if you've enjoyed this video I encourage you to subscribe and to hit that bell for notifications because I've got a few videos coming up that expand upon what we touched upon here okay so the next few videos are going to include I'm going to be doing a spirit meaning of eagle and this may not be in the same order but I will also be doing a further explanation of the energies of 2021 including that image that I showed you at the very beginning and the meaning of that hexagon shape we're going to be exploring venom as I finish this painting here the the morning one we're going to be looking delving into the meaning of venom I'm also working on a bee spirit animal deck and we're going to be doing the venom card about that so venom is something that comes forward sometimes when we work with spirit animals we're going to be looking at the meaning of that and how it pertains to kind of some of the life patterns that you may be seeing which is going to give us some clues as to how to work with venomous situations and clearing toxic energies and finally we're going to look at horses because horses have a very unique relationship with the the venomous snakes and we're going to see how horse spirit can help us to overcome toxic energies right that are represented by these snakes so looking forward to those and if that's something that you would like to be part of I would welcome you as as a viewer hit that subscribe button and thank you thank you so much for watching and we'll catch you again soon when I almost forgot one more upcoming video and that's going to be my annual spirit animal reading for the entire year of 2021 and I'm thinking about doing that as a live stream so if I'd love to hear from you actually if you if you would prefer a live stream put that in the comments below and anyway that will be I will be uploading that within the next three days so look for that soon