Snake

Since in China we are ruled by the lunar calendar, and in Occident by the lot, the beginning and end of every year does not coincide exactly. Therefore, before knowing what says the Chinese horoscope on your sign, make sure that really you have been born under the sign of the Snake, as they it are the born persons in the dates included in the table of the left.

4-2-1905 24-1-1906 Madeira
23-1-1917 to 10-2-1918 Fire
10-2-1929 to 29-1-1930 Earth
27-1-1941 14-2-1942 Metal
14-2-1953 to 2-2-1954 Waters down
2-2-1965 20-1-1966 Madeira
18-2-1977 to 6-2-1978 Fire
6-2-1989 to 26-1-1990 Earth

To complete your cosmic profile it is necessary to know the influence of Five Elements on your life. He verifies in the top table the element to which you belong. The hour of birth also has big influence on the character of the person. In general it is considered that the born during the hour if (from 9 to 11 of the morning) acquire some qualities of the snake, and are usually shier than the born at other hours.

The persons born under the sign of the snake you usually have an enigmatic air. Elegant, and with strong personality, often they triumph in his careers, since they do not disdain the danger, and they are, at the same time, capable of calculating carefully the risks of every action. Convinced in their own arguments, rarely they listen to the opinions about others, and it finds it hard to them work to accept a leadership that is not his. Seducers, they do not like taking routine lives.

They live in harmony with: Ox, rooster and dragon.
Conflicts arise with: Tiger, horse and monkey.

The snake is an ambiguous animal in the collective image of the Chinese people. On one hand it is considered to be similar to the dragon. Many Chinese authors admit that the dragon, nonexistent, is only the sublimation of a snake. In spite of it the snake rarely has conquered the heart of the people. Rather on the contrary, nobody can forget that the snake is a dangerous animal, which with his sting can cause the death, and the popular mythology this one full of exaggerations and fantasies about the evil snakes, capable, on the other hand, of transforming in persons.

In the basin of the river Yangtze a certain cult exists to the snake, since one believes that the domestic snakes bring fortune. And this way there are temples to the God Snake, and even a holiday in his honor: on April 12, in the outskirts of Suzhou. In other dates in the nearby cities of the province of Jiangsu. Similar cults are in the province of Fujian, where to the snakes that are in the houses, they are considered to be messengers of the ancestors.

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