Born in the Year of the Snake

Born in the Year of the Snake

Snake or serpent, he has a bad reputation in Christian countries – but in the East, on the contrary, he is well thought of, even venerated, for his wisdom, his sagacity, and his good will.

So far as those born under his sign go, the Snake man is romantic and charming. He has a sense of humor. And the woman is usually beautiful, and successful.

In Japan, those wishing to pay a woman a compliment and acknowledge her beauty are accustomed to say: “My dear, you are a real snake!” – a pleasantry liable to be misinterpreted in the West!

The snake dresses with a great deal of affectation and even a certain ostentation: men born under the sign always have a bit of the dandy about them, and Serpent women rave, for example, over smart accessories.

The snake never waste time in idle gossip. He thinks often and deeply. He is an intellectual, a philosopher, a cerebral person. Yet he could in fact dispense with his acquired wisdom, for he has an intuition that is quite remarkable – an intuition that could become, if cultivated, something very like clairvoyance. Similarly, he relies often on first impressions, on his own feelings, on his sympathies, rather than on facts, on the advice and opinions of others, or on the experience of himself and his colleagues. He seems to have a kind of sixth sense in this way.

Determined to follow through anything he undertakes to the bitter end, the Snake detest being left as it were in mid-air, and he makes his decisions quickly and firmly. He will move heaven and earth to attain his goal and nothing will be allowed to stand in his way. As you might expect, he makes a very poor gambler.

The snake will often have a large family – for him, it’s just one more way of making sure that his wife has no time to play around like he does. He will be happy with the Buffalo, who is content to be overrun by a family on condition that the Buffalo is always accepted as boss – a role that the snake willingly concedes in the home.