The Snake year (Fire 火, yin) meets a Libra sun (Air, Cardinal).
Fire · yinAir · Cardinal巳 sì
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
6 of 12
Branch
巳 (sì)
Year element
Fire 火 · yin
Sun sign
Libra
Sign element
Air
Modality
Cardinal
Ruling planet
Venus
Hours ruled
09:00–10:59
Season · direction
Summer · South-Southeast
These values are computed from the Earthly Branch and tropical sign, not looked up in a table. The year element follows the sexagenary cycle; the sign facts follow the tropical zodiac.
Libra's Air lifts the Snake's Fire, and Venus adds a polish that makes this one of the smoothest operators in the set. Cardinal by modality, the Libra Snake initiates through charm rather than force, opening doors with grace and steering the room while seeming only to be agreeable. They genuinely want harmony, but the Snake underneath is always weighing, so their fairness carries a strategic edge; they balance the scales partly because imbalance is inefficient. In love they are courtly, attentive, and slightly elusive, drawing people close while keeping a chamber of themselves reserved. A partner may not realize for years how little they actually know. At work they negotiate beautifully and dislike open conflict, preferring to win quietly and let the other side feel consulted. Social Air over private yin Fire produces real elegance but also indecision, since they see every angle so clearly that committing to one feels like a small betrayal of the others. The Libra Snake's blind spot is using charm to dodge the unpleasant conversation entirely, smoothing things that needed to be said plainly instead.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Snake year understands the situation completely before it tips its hand, filtered through a Libra sun that brings graceful even-handedness. As a cardinal sign, the Libra side starts things. It is happiest at the beginning of a venture, less so in the long maintenance that follows. The blend reads as a study in two minds, the kind of person who plays a long, quiet game and rarely loses it while wanting, underneath, what every Libra wants: balance and a fellow aesthete.
In love
In love, the Snake is intensely loyal and just as intensely private, while the Libra side gives harmony and partnership. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is balance and a fellow aesthete, and they give devotion the Snake's way. The 巳 branch is a summer sign, and that cool-then-committed cadence is precisely how this person warms to someone.
Career
At work, the Snake plays a long, quiet game and rarely loses it. The Libra layer adds harmony and partnership, and the cardinal cast means this person starts things. With Venus as its ruler, the Libra Snake thrives when it is allowed to alternate between instinct and method.
The shadow side
The shadow side is specific. The Snake in this person withholds and calculates when it should simply speak; the Libra in them can over-rely on graceful even-handedness. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, withholds and calculates when it should simply speak reinforcing a Libra that charges ahead. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Libra Snake combines the Snake year (Fire, yin) with a Libra sun (Air, Cardinal, ruled by Venus). The Libra Snake sets Snake's still, strategic depth against Libra's graceful even-handedness. The two systems describe different textures here (the radiant heat of Fire underneath an airy, idea-led temperament), and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents negotiate.
Do the Eastern and Western sides of a Libra Snake agree?
Not directly. The Fire of the Snake year and the Air of the Libra sun describe different temperaments, and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents take turns.
Who is the Snake most compatible with?
In the branch relations, the Snake's natural ally (六合) is the Monkey, its trine partners (三合) are the Rooster and Ox, and its classic clash (六沖) is the Pig.
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