The Year of the Snake Promises Ample Chances to Strike Back Against Misfortune

January 13, 2025 journo

In traditional Chinese astrology, your birth year is especially unlucky, but this year there’s no need for snakes to keep a low profile.

Every year, GNN generates a horoscope based on averages of several major Chinese horoscope providers and Feng Shui masters to help those who don’t follow this ancient practice make sense of it.

On January 29th, the Lunar New Year will welcome the 12-month Chinese zodiac of the snake under the heavenly branch of wood. How do you know if you are a snake? The last 100 years of snakes were born in 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 and 2013. The last wood snakes were born in 1965.

Being that the year begins on Jan 29th, if your birthday falls earlier in January, you’re a dragon, not a snake.

Chinese astrology has it that every 12th year is unlucky, as the star any individual person was born under arrives closest to the god Tai Sui. That closeness offends him, and so those born under the sign of the year to come are generally recommended to stay put, risk little, and tread lightly.

Yet the 2025 horoscope average heralds a different forecast. Snakes are generally cautious, introverted observers, under whose cold scales lie sensitivity and wisdom. This year is also the second of the two years of the element wood, endowing it with characteristics of creativity, growth, and a certain amount of unpredictability.

The snake’s tact, intuition, and knowledge, coupled with the opportunities offered by wood, means that even in the face of the most unlucky year, snakes are poised to strike at clear opportunities.

The GNN online Chinese horoscope average finds that this year should be of benefit to a snake’s career and finances. A number of lucky stars sit poised to counter the misfortune of the ben ming nian, or unlucky year.

Money and career advancement will come easy for snakes this year, and rewards will be forthcoming for hardworking serpents. Wood is also associated with transformation, and just as the snake sheds its skin, our horoscope average seems to indicate that prospects abound for reinvention.

The highest weighted prediction is of challenges and risks in the snake’s personal health. The year foreshadows accidents, particularly those associated with water. Avoid water skiing or surfing.

Relationships too will be challenged and strained, as would be imagined in the ben ming nian. Single snakes should de-prioritize finding a partner and instead focus on work. Transformation abounds during the year of the wood snake, and friends and acquaintances may reveal their true nature this year, for good or for ill.

For those already married or in a relationship, the horoscope average seems to suggest that joyful events such as trips, marriages, or family parties will go a long way toward softening Tai Sui’s wrath.

This year, Tai Sui stars are in the southwest, so all furniture should face northeast. The snake’s lucky color is blue, while red should always be considered to attract fortune. Their lucky number is easy to remember: it’s 1.

For those born on other years who are wondering how to face the wood snake, there seems to be an emphasis on creativity, and even a tendency to overwork. It’s no coincidence perhaps that this year features 60th birthdays from some extraordinary creative minds.

J.K. Rowling, Trent Reznor, Sinichiro Watanabe, Satoshi Tajiri, and Michael Dell, will all be facing Tai Sui this year.

Other animals that benefit from growth and discerning opportunities should have a good year. With all the opportunities to come, dragons and tigers are likely to be overworked and should focus on maintaining a work-life balance.

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