Snake Chinese Zodiac

Personality, strengths, compatibility and birth years

The Chinese zodiac assigns each year one of twelve animals on a repeating cycle, set by your birth year rather than your birth date. The animal describes temperament and the company you keep easily — it is a separate system from Western star signs, and the two rarely say the same thing.

Personality

The Snake is the deep thinker of the zodiac — wise, intuitive, and magnetically alluring. You see through pretense instantly and understand human nature at a profound level. Snakes are private people who reveal themselves only to those who earn their trust.

Strengths

Wise, intuitive, elegant, analytical, determined, discreet

Challenges

Suspicious, jealous, possessive, dishonest when cornered, cold

Best matches

Dragon, Rooster, Ox

Birth years

1941 (from 27 Jan), 1953 (from 14 Feb), 1965 (from 2 Feb), 1977 (from 18 Feb), 1989 (from 6 Feb), 2001 (from 24 Jan), 2013 (from 10 Feb), 2025 (from 29 Jan).

A Chinese year begins at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January, so the dates above are where each year actually starts. Born before that date and you belong to the previous year's animal — Aethera works this out from your full birth date.

Lucky numbers

2, 8, 9

Lucky colours

Black, red, yellow

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The other eleven animals

RatOxTigerRabbitDragonHorseGoatMonkeyRoosterDogPig