December MELT Dose – Closing the Year of the Snake
There is a particular kind of quiet that comes right before a season closes.
Not an ending that slams shut — but one that exhales.
One that asks us to pause, to feel, to notice who we are now.
As we wind down 2025 — the Year of the Snake — I keep coming back to this image of shedding. Not in a dramatic, cinematic way… but in the slow, sacred, biological truth of it.
Because snakes don’t shed when they’re ready.
They shed because they’ve outgrown who they were.
🐍 The Year of the Snake — energetically speaking
This year has been an invitation into:
Release — letting go of skins that once kept us safe
Inner growth — expansion that happens quietly, invisibly, relentlessly
Renewal — not becoming someone new, but becoming more true
Sacred pause — honoring stillness as a form of wisdom
Transformation — the kind that rearranges you from the inside out
Subconscious healing — tending to what lives beneath the surface
Trust — in timing, in process, in self
Shedding — identities, patterns, structures, stories
Soulwork — deep, devotional, often unseen labor
Spiritual depth — choosing meaning over momentum
A snake grows until its skin no longer fits.
The pressure builds. The stretch becomes uncomfortable.
Eventually, the skin splits — and the snake emerges.
But here’s the part we don’t talk about enough:
When a snake sheds, it doesn’t immediately slither off as its bold, glossy new self.
It is tender.
Its skin is baby-soft.
It is more sensitive to the sun, to rocks, to friction, to danger.
So it retreats.
It rests.
It incubates.
It gives itself time to be delicate before it is resilient again.
That… has been this year for me.
My Year of the Snake
At the very beginning of 2025, I was asked — no, invited — to let go of some very big things.
Things that felt familiar. Things that felt safe. Things I wasn’t sure I was ready to release.
It was scary.
Confronting.
Uncertain.
I wanted to resist it.
Instead, I surrendered.
And that surrender pulled me deeper into my business than ever before — hands fully in, pulse fully felt — at the same time I was growing an entire human inside of my body and preparing for maternity leave for the first time in my life.
I was being stretched in every direction.
Then came birth.
A true initiation.
A crossing.
A moment that rearranged me forever.
Postpartum cracked me open in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
There was bliss and beauty and ecstasy and heart-expanding love beyond language — and also despair, feeding challenges, mood swings, grief for who I used to be, and moments of feeling completely outside my body.
I disappeared all summer.
Like the snake who has shed its skin and must stay hidden for a while, I needed so much extra time and tenderness, moving slowly while my new skin strengthened.
And then… emergence.
Coming out of maternity leave.
Learning how to be a present mother and a business owner from mostly afar — on very little sleep — while discovering who I am now and what I truly want.
This year has been a mosaic.
Messy. Sacred. Exhausting. Exhilarating.
And somehow, impossibly, breathtakingly…
I did not just birth and nurture an extraordinary human — the light of my life —
I also:
Restructured and solidified our leadership team
Revitalized the Mothership
Expanded MIDI MELT
Refined our service menu
Welcomed Hydrafacials into the MELT universe
Laid foundations for what’s coming next
This was a year of deep soul labor.
Numerology of the Moment
2025 is a 9-year (2+0+2+5).
In numerology, nine is the number of completion, release, wisdom, and closure.
It asks: What are you ready to lay down?
And now… we stand at the threshold of 2026 — a 1-year (2+0+2+6 = 10 → 1).
One is new beginnings.
Initiation.
Momentum.
Creation.
And astrologically, 2026 is the Year of the Horse — bringing:
Clarity
Freedom
Courage
Expansion
Movement
Breakthroughs
Intentional action
Boldness
Magnetic energy
Forward motion
Where the snake taught us to go inward,
the horse invites us to move.
Closing this chapter
As we say farewell to the Year of the Snake, my hope for you — for us — is this:
May you honor what you released.
May you bless the skins that once protected you.
May you recognize how much you grew while no one was watching.
May you allow yourself tenderness where you are still new.
And may you step into 2026 with clarity, courage, and trust in the body you now inhabit.
Thank you for being part of this MELT year.
Thank you for witnessing this chapter with me.
Thank you for walking alongside me through shedding, softness, and emergence.
With so much love — and so much excitement for what’s next,
Melissa 💗
