CHINESE YEAR OF THE SNAKE

This year, Chinese New Year falls on Sunday, February 10. Of course, the big celebration is Saturday night  -- New Year's Eve!  It is a huge event in Asia (Japan, Korea and many more countries than China), much grander than our own New Year's Eve.  Celebrations can go on for days with parades, performances of all kinds, music and special foods.  Just like in Euro-American astrology, there are 12 zodiac animal signs.  A big difference, however, is that each Asian sign rules for a year, rather than the month given to the European signs.

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF THE SNAKE!!!

Some famous people born in 

the Year of the Snake are:               

Picasso, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, Mao Tse-tung,                   Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy, Princess Grace, Abraham Lincoln, Brahms and Schubert.

According to famous Chinese Astrologer, 

Theodora Lau:

The Year of the Snake is a year for reflection, planning, and searching answers.  It is a good time for shrewd dealings, political affairs and coups d'´etat.  People will be more likely to scheme and ponder over matters before acting on them.  It is an auspicious year for commerce and industry.  Solutions and compromises can be arrived at, but not without some mutual distrust at first.  The Snake likes to resolve his differences one way or another.  If he fails and things cannot be peacefully settled, the he will declare war. 
Looking back into history, we find that the Year of the Snake has never been tranquil.  Perhaps this is because, to use the language of electrical currents, it is the strongest negatively charged current in the cycle and it follows the Year of the Dragon, which is the most positively charged current.  Many disasters that began in the Year of the Dragon tend to culminate in the Year of the Snake.  These two signs are very closely related and the calamities of the Snake years often resulted from excesses committed during the Dragon’s reign.

This will be a lively time for romance, courtship and scandals of all sorts.  It is a good year to pursue the arts.  Fashion will become more elegant and fluid; music and the theater will blossom; and people will strive for a more sophisticated life.  Notable contributions will also be made by science and technology.

The venerable wisdom of the Snake will be evident in many facets of our life, particularly in those requiring decisions.  Although everything may look refreshingly quiet on the surface, the Year of the Snake is always unpredictable.  The Snake’s cool and collected front hides the deep and mysterious ways of his nature.  It should be noted that once the Snake uncoils to strike, he moves like lightning and nothing can stop him.  Similarly, changes that occur during the Snake’s year can be as sudden and devastating.
Tread lightly and be more cautious this year.  Gambling and speculation is strictly taboo.  The consequences will be overwhelming.  The Snake is not merciful.

Whatever else happens, the Snake will give us faith in our convictions and coerce us to act and to act forcefully during his reign.  This is not a year for fence-sitters!