Snakes are: wise, cultivated, cerebral, accommodating, intuitive, attractive, amusing, lucky, sympathetic, elegant, soft-spoken, well bred, compassionate, philosophical, calm, and decisive.

But they can also be: ostentatious, sore losers, tight-fisted, extravagant, presumptuous, possessive, vengeful, self-critical, lazy, and fickle.

Out there somewhere, slithering through rich grasses, dawdling now and again to strike it rich, is the darling of the Oriental signs... the alluring Snake. Seductive beyond belief, restful and sage, people born in the snake years emit their particular form of magnetism in what the Chinese like think of as a pleasant ooze. Absent from their repertoire are such characteristics as belligerence or swagger. Snakes are neither aggressive nor blatant. They are masters of reptilian grace. Rarely are they ruffled or upset. Snake people give everybody, including themselves, the impression they really have it “all together”.

You may think you are too virtuous and well adjusted to fall prey to a Snake. Don’t be too sure. These beasts have an act unparalleled by all the others. For the most part, they are uncommonly beautiful, even the men. They are somewhat forbidding, and helplessly sexy.