What is characteristic of the Year of the Snake and what the New Year 2025 promises to be

The eastern horoscope is directly related to the lunar calendar, so the new year of the Snake will begin not on January 1, as many expect, but on January 29, 2025, and end on February 16, 2026.

Despite the fact that many people experience far from the most positive emotions when they see snakes, in the Chinese horoscope the Snake is among the most respected and revered. It is a symbol of intelligence and wisdom, flexibility and cunning, easily adapts to change.

The snake moves slowly, carefully and knows how to think and analyze many moves ahead. So it wouldn’t hurt for us to make balanced, well-developed plans for 2025, not to fuss, not to lose common sense and prudence, and to realistically assess the prospects. And then we can hope that the Year of the Snake will pass easily, eventfully and calmly, without nerves, rush jobs and endless work on mistakes.

One of the hallmarks of the Snake is the ability to shed its skin, so the Year of the Snake is often associated with renewal and transformation, which means we should be prepared for change.

The snake is a purposeful creature, but at the same time patient and in no hurry to make decisions. Such qualities can be useful for achieving success. Snakes have traditionally been considered in the East to be quite peaceful and calm, but in case of danger, the snake is capable of repelling the enemy.

The snake is a rather secretive creature; it tries to avoid noisy places and large companies, therefore, when choosing a place to celebrate the New Year, it is better to give preference to a cozy, calm environment, a circle of family and friends.

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Year of the Snake in history

The years 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 passed under the sign of the Snake. Many events that took place then remained in history as very significant and even fateful for humanity.

For example, in 1917 The February Revolution took place, starting with a strike at the Putilov plant in St. Petersburg. Tens and then hundreds of thousands of people joined the workers. Nicholas II abdicated the throne. The October Revolution happened and the Bolsheviks came to power.

IN 1929 year there was a crash on the New York Stock Exchange. It began the Great Depression – a global systemic crisis that lasted several years. Also in this year the Vatican State was formed.

IN 1941 the year the Second World War began; American physicist Glenn Seaborg discovered a new chemical element – plutonium.

IN 1953 The Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU of the USSR Joseph Stalin died. In the same year, Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, was discovered, which became one of the key events in the history of biology.

1965 The year is famous for the fact that Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went into outer space for the first time in the history of cosmonautics from the Voskhod-2 spacecraft. In 1965, the Vietnam War began, which had a significant impact on Southeast Asia.

IN 1977 In 2010, the Constitution of the USSR, or the “Brezhnev” Constitution, was adopted – it was also called the Constitution of “developed socialism”. The Soviet nuclear icebreaker “Arktika” reached the North Pole for the first time in the history of navigation. In Moscow, there was a severe fire at the Rossiya Hotel, which was fought by 1.5 thousand firefighters.

1989 year – the beginning of “perestroika”. The same year the Berlin Wall fell. Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan.

In 2001 On September 11, a terrorist attack occurred in the United States – the Twin Towers collapsed, killing 2,996 people. In the same year, the submarine cruiser Kursk, the accident on which had occurred a year earlier, was brought to the surface.

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2013 – On February 15, a meteorite fell in the Chelyabinsk region, becoming the most powerful explosion of a cosmic body not over the ocean since the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. Euromaidan took place in Kyiv.

Among the famous people born in the Year of the Snake, there are outstanding personalities in various fields – politics, sports, science, etc. In particular, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, writers Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky, actors Andrei Mironov and Georgy Vitsin, actresses Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, scientist Dmitry Mendeleev, artist Pablo Picasso, fashion designer Christian Dior, politicians Dmitry Medvedev and Si Jinping, athlete Roman Kostomarov.

Source: rg.ru