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The Snake ( 己 ) (also known as the Serpent) is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
[edit] Years and the five elements
Persons born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "year of the Snake," while also bearing the following elemental sign:
[edit] Attributes
The person born in the year of snake is perhaps the wisest and most enigmatic of all. He/she can become a philosopher, a theologian, a political lizard or a wily financier. Such a person is a thinker who also likes to live well. The snake-person loves books, music, clothes, and fine food; but with all their fondness for the good things in life, their innate elegance gives them a dislike for frivolities and foolish talk.
Snake-persons like communicating and like interesting conversations; if the conversation becomes repetitive their attention may soon wander. It is almost impossible to fix their attention for long talking about every day habits. They prefer to focus on new, interesting and evolutionary ideas in general.
These people have a special talent that enables them to judge situations correctly. They are alert to new possibilities: when they have an idea of what to do and how to do it, they will pursue it persistently and energetically. In Chinese astrology it is believed that they are self-confident and willing to listen to someone else's opinion, but don't necessarily take it 'on board'. Refusing to listen to constructive advice, they may be prone to getting into needless trouble.
Although it is difficult for such people to take advice, they are patient with others when it comes to giving a helping hand, and their ability to look at a problem from a variety of angles is extremely useful. When faced with a dilemma, snake people, as a rule, act with speed and conviction, since they believe intensely in what they are doing and rarely waste time or energy on projects lacking in good potential.
[edit] Snake attributes
[edit] Famous people born in the year of snake
[edit] Metal Snakes
- Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager
- Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and inventor of penicillin
- Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer
- Bob Dylan, American poet and musician
- Clara Barton, First president of American Red Cross
- Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
- Jesse Jackson, political activist
- Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist
- Junichiro Koizumi, Former Prime Minister of Japan
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[edit] Water Snakes
- Abu Bakr, Muslim Caliph
- Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize
- Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
- Chaka Khan, American singer
- Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist
- Queen Elizabeth I of England
- Howard Stern, American radio host
- Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
- Johann Christoph Pachelbel, German composer
- Johannes Brahms, German composer
- John St. John, American temperance movement leader
- Kim Basinger, American actress
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- Mao Zedong, Chinese leader
- Michael Bolton, American singer
- Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician
- Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show host, producer, and publisher
- Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
- Russ Feingold, American politician
- Stanley Williams, co-founder of Crips street gang
- Tim Allen, American entertainer
- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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[edit] Wood Snakes
- Albert Speer, Nazi official
- Andy Cairns, Irish musician
- Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer
- Ben Stiller, American actor
- Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
- Booker Huffman, professional wrestler
- Brooke Shields, American actress
- Chris Rock, American actor and comedian
- Dr. Dre, American rapper and music producer
- Elizabeth Hurley, English actress
- Greta Garbo, Swedish actress
- Howard Hughes, American film maker, industrialist, aircraft designer, and airline founder
- Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher
- J. K. Rowling, English author
- Kristin Davis, American actress
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- Lennox Lewis, British-Canadian boxer
- Max Schmeling, German boxer
- Moby, American musician
- Pericles, Athenian politician
- Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
- Robert Downey Jr., American actor
- Rob Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer
- Shania Twain, Canadian singer and songwriter
- Theodosius I, Roman Emperor
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher
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[edit] Fire Snakes
- AJ McLean, member of the Backstreet Boys
- Anthony Burgess, English author
- Augustus Octavius Caesar, first Roman Emperor
- Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defence
- David Lee Stone, British writer
- Edward Furlong, American actor
- Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer
- Ferdinand Marcos, 10th Philippine President
- Fiona Apple, American musician
- Gianluigi Buffon, Italian soccer goalkeeper
- Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
- James Blunt, British musician
- John Cena, Pro wrestler, movie star
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
- Kanye West, American rapper and record producer
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- Liv Tyler, American actress
- Ludacris, American rapper
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
- Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator
- Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
- Raul Gonzalez, Spanish football player
- Robert Lowell, American poet
- Ryan Dunn, American entertainer
- Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria
- Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
- Thierry Henry, French football player
- Thomas Paine, American patriot and pamphleteer
- William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States
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[edit] Earth Snakes
- Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
- Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress
- Bill Kaulitz, German singer
- Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
- Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
- Dick Clark, American television entertainer
- Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco
- Harald Juhnke, German entertainer
- Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of John F Kennedy
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
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- John Calvin, French religious reformer
- June Carter Cash, American singer
- Mohandas Gandhi, founder of the modern Indian state and proponent of nonviolence
- Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer
- Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer
- Robert Charles Winthrop, American statesman
- Ronald Biggs, British criminal
- Vespasian, Roman emperor
- Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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