One cell of 144
Taurus + Year of the Snake
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Taurus meets the Year of the Snake, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Taurus born in the Year of the Snake?
A Taurus born in the Year of the Snake is the Pangolin. The month and day set the Taurus half, the birth year sets the Snake half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Pangolin for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Taurus half
Taurus holds April 20 to May 20, fixed Earth under Venus. You build slowly and keep what you build. Once you have decided a thing is good, the argument is over, whether or not anyone else has noticed. Read Taurus 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 Taurus and the Snake make together
Taurus brings the weight that keeps a thing standing. The Snake year brings the stillness that makes every move exact. The Pangolin carries both at once.
You curl around the soft center and wait the trouble out, and it works right up until waiting is the trouble.
The Snake runs in a trine with the Ox and the Rooster. Held to the same Taurus season, those years give the Giant Clam and the Superb Bird of Paradise, 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 Pangolin the same as being a Taurus?
Taurus is half of it. The Pangolin is the specific crossing of Taurus 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 Pangolin's trine?
The Snake runs with the Ox and the Rooster. Held to the same Taurus dates, those years give the Giant Clam and the Superb Bird of Paradise, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Pangolin's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.