One cell of 144
Libra + Year of the Snake
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Libra meets the Year of the Snake, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Libra born in the Year of the Snake?
A Libra born in the Year of the Snake is the Paradise Tanager. The month and day set the Libra half, the birth year sets the Snake half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Paradise Tanager for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Libra half
Libra runs from September 23 to October 22, cardinal Air under Venus. You weigh both pans before you speak. The balance you hold for other people is labor, and you do it so smoothly they call it charm. Read Libra 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 Libra and the Snake make together
Libra brings the instinct to level the two pans. The Snake year brings the stillness that makes every move exact. One animal holds both, and its name is the Paradise Tanager.
You can walk into any room full of strangers and still leave as exactly yourself, one bright note the whole mixed flock somehow needed.
The Snake runs in a trine with the Ox and the Rooster. Held to the same Libra season, those years give the Swan and the Satin Bowerbird, 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 Paradise Tanager the same as being a Libra?
Libra is half of it. The Paradise Tanager is the specific crossing of Libra 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 Paradise Tanager's trine?
The Snake runs with the Ox and the Rooster. Held to the same Libra dates, those years give the Swan and the Satin Bowerbird, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Paradise Tanager's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.