Year of the Snake and Abraxas?

I bought a copy of the magazine Feng Shui World

 and started reading the first article called 
"Planning For the Birth of a Future Royal - The Water Snake Baby".

Rare terracotta image of Isis
lamenting the loss of Osiris.

The article was speculating on whether the royals were expecting a baby in the Year of the Snake, because the year of the Water Snake is the perfect year for this couple to welcome the future King or Queen of England.

Pose of the Madonna?

 The water snake is one of the most powerful signs of the zodiac according to this article.

This very powerful animal sign only comes around once every 60 years.

2013 ~ 

Shapeshifting Water Snake Galaxy ~ 

Magick & Miracles

The article also says - 
"Not only is leadership in the blood and astrological charts of the Water Snake, this little child will get along famously with his/her parents, particularly with his/her mother, Kate.
Kate Middleton is a Rooster, and there is almost no better parent/child pairing in the Zodiac than the Rooster/Snake combination."

Rooster/Snake combination?
Isn't that Abraxas, a rooster snake combination?

Abraxas Louvre 2006

 Interesting year coming up by the sounds of it.
 Predictions for 2013, the year of the Water (Black) Snake:
* A powerful new world leader will come to the fore.
* A music revolution that will rock our world.
* Powerful mystical energy for all to tap into.
* Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and shipwrecks are likely.
* An especially auspicious year for those born in the years of the Ox and the Rooster.
* Those born in the year of the Pig should take extra care.
* Communication, media and advertising will greatly benefit as this year is ruled by Mercury.
* Becoming more globalized and interconnected.
* Venus is the co-ruler of the year so relationships and friendships will benefit.
* Peak performance in sport with new world records set.
* Economic empowerment for those who make slow and calculated moves.
* Advancement in space travel.
* An increase in lies, betrayal, slyness, burglaries, fraud, deception, etc.
* Stricter rules and laws and more severe penalties for criminal offences.
* Socially responsible practices like “reduce, re-use, recycle” are rational programs of social behavior change that are sensible responses to limitations in global environmental resources.
2013 ~ Shapeshifting Water Snake Galaxy ~ Magick & Miracles

Tindari Madonna Bruna: restoration work in the 1990s
 found a medieval statue with later additions.
Nigra sum sed formosa, meaning
"I am black but beautiful" (from the Song of Songs, 1:5),
 is inscribed round a newer base.

The Isis cult in Rome was a template
for the Christian Madonna cult

Isis nursing Horus.

"A Black Madonna or Black Virgin is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark skin, especially those created in Europe in the medieval period or earlier. 
In this specialized sense "Black Madonna" does not refer to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as specifically ethnically black, which are popular in Africa and areas with large black populations, such as Brazil and the United States, but rather refers to all portrayals of the Virgin Mary with dark skin that were created during this time period; 
however, some scholars in the afrocentric and theosophical community believe that the Black Madonnas are black because they were a copy of the Egyptian Isis and Horus image that was both black and African."

Isis in black and white marble
  (Roman, 2nd century CE)

^"  Isis (Ancient Greek: Ἶσις, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely Aset) is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, and the downtrodden, and she listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats, and rulers. 
Isis is often depicted as the mother of Horus, 
the hawk-headed god of war and protection
(although in some traditions Horus's mother was Hathor). 
Isis is also known as protector of the dead and goddess of children. "

"  The name Isis means "Throne". 
Her headdress is a throne. 
As the personification of the throne, 
she was an important representation of the pharaoh's power. 
The pharaoh was depicted as her child, who sat on the throne she provided. 
The star Sopdet (Sirius) is associated with Isis"
Isis

Surely you can't be Sirius?

 " Probably due to assimilation with the goddess Aphrodite (Venus), 
during the Roman period, the rose was used in her worship. 
The demand for roses throughout the empire turned rose production into an important industry. "

Royal Birth: Child of Isis

 Thanks to Alan Abbadessa-Green for the leads.

http://snake-images.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/black-water-snake.html