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 his fondness for the good things in life, his innate elegance gives him a dislike for frivolities and foolish talk. [citation needed]
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 the weather. They prefer to focus on new, interesting, unusual ideas and on intelligent discussion in general.[citation needed]
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. They are self-confident and usually don't bother to listen to someone else's opinion. But this can also have a negative effect. Refusing to listen to constructive advice, they may get into needless trouble. [citation needed]
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 appreciated. 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.[citation needed]
Snake attributes
Zodiac Location: 6th Ruling hours: 9am-11am Direction: South Southeast Season and month: Spring, May Gemstone: Agate Roughly equivalent western sign: Taurus Polarity: Yin Countries: Mongolia, Mozambique, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Trinidad & Tobago
Celebrities born in the year of snake
Metal Snakes
Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager
Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer
Bob Dylan, American poet and musician
Cincinnatus, Roman dictator
Clara Barton, First president of American Red Cross
Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States
Dick Gephardt, American politician
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer
Gustave Flaubert, French writer
Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
James Joyce, Irish author
Jesse Jackson, political activist
Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
Kemal Atatürk, first Turkish President
Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea
Lucretius, Latin philosopher and poet
Martha Stewart, American television and magazine personality
Muhammad Ali, American boxer
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
Qu You, Chinese novelist
Ritchie Valens, American singer
Rudolf Clausius, German physicist
Slobodan Miloševic, President of Serbia
St. Ansgar
Stephen Hawking, British physicist
Virginia Woolf, English writer
Vivienne Westwood, British fashion designer
William Henry Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur
Xerxes I of Persia
Water Snakes
Abu Bakr, Muslim Caliph
Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize
Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal
Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
Chaka Khan, American singer
Danny Elfman, American composer
Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist
Dorothy Dickson, American-born actress and socialite
Howard Stern, American radio host
Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator
Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
Jeff Goldblum, American actor
Johann Christoph Pachelbel, German composer
Jeffrey Keith Skilling, former Enron CEO
Johannes Brahms, German composer
John Edwards, American politician, vice-presidential candidate
John St. John, American temperance movement leader
Kim Basinger, American actress
Lili Boulanger, French composer
Lu Bu, warrior during the Chinese Han Dynasty
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
Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman
Queen Elizabeth I of England
Robert Brown, Scottish botanist
Russ Feingold, American politician
Stanley Williams, co-founder of Crips street gang
Thomas Young, English scientist
Tim Allen, American entertainer
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William I of Orange
Wood Snakes
Albert Speer, Nazi official
Alexander III of Russia
Amoghavajra, Chinese translator and Buddhist
Andy Cairns, Irish musician
Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer
Ben Stiller, American actor
Bettina von Arnim, German poet
Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
Björk, Icelandic singer, songwriter, and musician
Brooke Shields, American actress
Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England
Chris Rock, American actor and comedian
Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
Dr. Dre, American rapper and music producer
Edward the Confessor
Elizabeth Hurley, English actress
Germanicus, Roman general
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
Johnny Rzeznik, American musician
Krist Novoselic, American musician
Lennox Lewis, British boxer
Martin Lawrence, American actor, comedian, and producer
Max Schmeling, German boxer
Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
Moby, American musician
Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States
Pericles, Athenian politician
Plutarch, Greek historian/biographer
Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
Robert Downey Jr., American actor
Rob Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer
Shania Twain, Canadian singer and songwriter
Slash, American musician
Trent Reznor, American musician
Theodosius I, Roman Emperor
Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and statesman
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher
Fire Snakes
AJ McLean, member of the Backstreet Boys
Alfonso XII of Spain
Anthony Burgess, English author
Auguste Comte, French sociologist
Augustus Octavius Caesar, first Roman Emperor
Bucky Covington, American singer
Brittany Murphy, American actress
Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defence
Edward Furlong, American Actor
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Survivor
Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
Ferdinand Marcos, 10th Philippine President
Fiona Apple, American musician
Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt
Gianluigi Buffon, Italian soccer goalkeeper
Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Heinrich Heine, German poet
Heinrich Hertz, German physicist
Henry Cardinal Beaufort, Lord Chancellor of England
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
James Blunt, British Musician
James Van Der Beek, American Actor
Jason Greeley, Canadian singer
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
John Lee Hooker, American blues musician
John Otto, American musician
Kanye West, American rapper and record producer
Liv Tyler, American actress
Ludacris, American rapper
Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman stateman and general
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer
Milton S. Hershey, American businessman and philanthropist
Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator
Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
Paul Cattermole, British musician
Raul Gonzalez, Spanish football player
Robert Lowell, American poet
Ronan Keating, Irish singer
Ryan Dunn, American entertainer
Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria
Sam Rivers, American musician
Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
Seneca, Roman statesman
Servius Sulpicius Galba, Roman emperor
Thierry Henry, French football player
Thomas Paine, American patriot and pamphleteer
Veronica Varekova, magazine celebrity
Victoria, Princess of Sweden
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States
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
Caitlin Wachs, American actress
Columbus Delano, American lawyer and a statesman
Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
Dick Clark, American television entertainer
Emily Mae Young, American child actress
Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco
Hannibal Hamlin, American politician
Harald Juhnke, German entertainer
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of John F Kennedy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
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
Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer
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