2013 Chinese zodiac
蛇 Water Snake · yin
Born between 10 February 2013 and 30 January 2014: you are a Water Snake. Born in 2013 but before 10 February 2013: your sign is that of 2012, the Water Dragon.
The year
- New Year : 10 February 2013
- Ends : 30 January 2014
- Animal : Snake
- Element : Water (yin)
The Water element
intuition, flexibility, depth.
Each animal returns every twelve years with a different element: the same pair only comes back every sixty years.
In the sixty-year cycle
癸巳 guǐ sì
Year 30 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1953 and 2073.
The Snake in one line
Wise and intuitive, it thinks long and strikes true.
Dates computed from the real positions of the Sun and Moon (NASA JPL DE440s ephemeris, Beijing time) under the rules of the Chinese calendar, and checked against published dates.