Ouroboros Part II: “Feel the Moment” and Imagine the Unimaginable

 In Part I, I presented the Chinese New Year of the Snake (2025) with the idea that the snake this year will be more of an Ouroboros--a Snake/Dragon eating itself away with the prospects of renewal or rebirth once it is finished. What made this even more relevant is the fact that the Year of the Snake follows the Year of the Dragon. The idea behind Part I is that it's publishing occurred shortly after the start of the Chinese New Year of the Snake which coincided with the announcement of the Chinese AI company, DeepSeek causing a huge, perhaps temporary disruption in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) world. Here is a link to Part I: https://www.invest-a-vision.com/blog/2.

Now I get to feel the moment as more and more journalists are using the Ouroboros analogy when discussing the “circular” financing activity triggering the tremendous rally behind AI related stocks and the build out plans for data centers meant to...

 January 29, 2025 - February 16, 2026: The Chinese Year of the Snake 

    Imagine the Unimaginables -

                                                           - Food for Thought!

Depending on who you ask, the Year of the Snake in 2025 can be full of quite a few positive possibilities and this could be especially welcoming after a very uncertain and exhausting 2024. It is said the snake brings wisdom, transformation, a kind of calm observance inspiring creativity. Seems like a lot of wishful thinking as the Year of the Snake starting January 29, 2025 has been quite a turbulent one.

One of my favorite exercises is to conjure up Food for Thought and Imagining the Unimaginable. In the world of finance and investing, this is trying to imagine what is not yet priced in the markets, expecting the unexpected. On Monday, January 27, stock markets got caught out by an announcement from a Chinese “start up” Artificial Intelligence (AI) company called DeepSeek who announced an open-sourced l...