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Chinese Zodiac Daily Horoscope · Sinabro Labs
Today you can take a real step toward your goals.
Snake may need some time to themselves today. Clear your schedule and recharge — even a book or a quiet walk is enough. Use the incoming energy on something you have been putting off.
The sign of wisdom and intuition — a mysterious, magnetic strategist who sees to the core.
The Snake is bright, sharply intuitive and deep. Judges carefully and executes meticulously once decided, but rarely reveals its inner self, which can read as cold or wary.
Quiet, deep love. Slow to open up but intense and devoted once it falls, becoming utterly dependable as trust builds.
Strong where analysis and strategy are central — research, planning, finance, law, medicine, psychology.
Spots opportunities through intuition and analysis. Calculated investment suits it better than impulse; reading the flow of information turns into wealth.
Element
Fire (Yin)
Direction
south-southeast
Hour
9am–11am
Season
early summer
Lunar month
month 4 of the lunar year
Trine
Sa–Yu–Chuk Metal — opening seat
It is said to have coiled quietly around the Horse's hoof and only shown itself at the last moment, startling the Horse and slipping ahead — staying hidden until the one moment that decided things. The Sa (巳) hour (9–11am) is when the sun begins to climb in earnest.
Read from the Sa (巳) seat. What do these terms mean?
Three Harmony three signs that together form one element · Six Harmony one of the six pairs the twelve fold into · Neutral no fixed harmony or clash · Same Seat the same branch twice · Punishment a three-way knot that presses on itself · Clash directly opposite on the circleOx is the close and Snake the start. Add Rooster at the middle and the three make Metal.
Together they turn to Water. Early summer and early autumn are 3 steps apart, mirrored across the line between Rat–Ox and Horse–Goat.
Snake is the start and Rooster the middle. Add Ox at the close and the three make Metal.
Water presses on Fire; 5 steps apart (lunar months 11, 4).
Wood feeds Fire, so Rabbit supports; 2 steps apart (lunar months 2, 4).
Fire feeds Earth, so Snake supports; 1 step apart (lunar months 3, 4).
Snake × Snake
Season, hour and direction all coincide (early summer, 9–11am, south-southeast). Rooster and Ox fill what is missing.
Both run on Fire; 1 step apart (lunar months 4, 5).
Fire feeds Earth, so Snake supports; 2 steps apart (lunar months 4, 6).
Fire feeds Earth, so Snake supports; 5 steps apart (lunar months 4, 9).
It completes when Monkey, the missing third, joins.
South-southeast against north-northwest, 9–11am against 9–11pm — and Fire against Water.
Take 2025: the Snake year begins on Jan 29, the lunar new year — anyone born before that is still the Dragon. Saju counts the year from Lichun instead, which fell on Feb 3 that year, so births between the two dates carry one sign by custom and another in the chart. Why two different rules?
| Year | Starts (lunar new year) | Lichun (Saju year) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jan 29 | Feb 3 |
| 2013 | Feb 10 | Feb 4 |
| 2001 | Jan 24 | Feb 4 |
| 1989 | Feb 6 | Feb 4 |
| 1977 | Feb 18 | Feb 4 |
| 1965 | Feb 2 | Feb 4 |
The branch repeats every twelve years but the stem runs on a ten-year cycle, so the same pairing only comes back after sixty. That makes five kinds of Snake year, each carrying a different stem element on top of Fire.
2025, 2013, 2001, 1989, 1977, 1965, 1953 and 1941 are Snake years. If born before the lunar new year you may belong to the previous sign, the Dragon.
The Snake goes well with the Ox and Rooster and forms a good bond with the Monkey. Values differ most with the Pig.
Deep wisdom, intuition and a mysterious air. Easing suspicion and opening up little by little widens its circle of relationships.