One cell of 144
Capricorn + Year of the Snake
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Capricorn meets the Year of the Snake, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Capricorn born in the Year of the Snake?
A Capricorn born in the Year of the Snake is the Tuatara. The month and day set the Capricorn half, the birth year sets the Snake half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Tuatara for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Capricorn half
Capricorn holds December 22 to January 19, cardinal Earth under Saturn. You climb on schedule. The winter sign builds for a future it fully expects to stand in, stone by patient stone. Read Capricorn in the Western wing.
The Snake half
The Snake is the sixth branch and shares its trine with the Ox and the Rooster, the careful builders. You watch long before you move, and the move is exact. Recent Snake years are 2001, 2013 and 2025. Read the Year of the Snake.
The crossing
What Capricorn and the Snake make together
Capricorn brings the long climb taken stone by stone. The Snake year brings the stillness that makes every move exact. The Tuatara carries both at once.
You move at your own unhurried pace through decades that would rattle anyone else, and a hundred years in, you are still unmistakably you.
The Snake runs in a trine with the Ox and the Rooster. Held to the same Capricorn season, those years give the Shoebill and the Andean Condor, the two crossings whose engines run closest to yours.
The boundary
Born near the boundary?
The Chinese year does not turn on January 1. It turns at the lunar New Year, somewhere between late January and mid February, so a birthday in those weeks can belong to the animal before this one. The year finder checks the real date for any year you give it.
Common questions
Questions about this crossing
Is the Tuatara the same as being a Capricorn?
Capricorn is half of it. The Tuatara is the specific crossing of Capricorn with the Year of the Snake, one cell out of 144. Two people can share a Sun sign and carry different animals, because the birth year changes the second half.
What if I was born in January or February of a Snake year?
The Chinese year turns at the lunar New Year, which lands between late January and mid February. A birthday in those weeks can belong to the previous animal, so the year finder checks the real boundary before the grid names your crossing.
Which crossings share the Tuatara's trine?
The Snake runs with the Ox and the Rooster. Held to the same Capricorn dates, those years give the Shoebill and the Andean Condor, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Tuatara's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.