1989: Year of the Earth Snake
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 1989 is 己巳 — Yin Earth over the Snake branch.
The Heavenly Stem: 己 (Earth)
Yin Earth is the cultivated field — practical, nurturing, and shaped by what's needed of it rather than by its own will.
The Earthly Branch: 巳 — Year of the Snake
The Snake is perceptive and strategic — private by nature, and usually several steps ahead before anyone else has started thinking.
What 1989 holds in the sky
Computed from the same ephemeris as the charts: every date below is a position, not a prediction, and can be checked against any astronomical almanac.
Eclipses
- February 20Lunar eclipse
- March 7Solar eclipse
- August 17Lunar eclipse
- August 31Solar eclipse
Retrogrades
- January 16 – February 5Mercury retrograde
- May 12 – June 5Mercury retrograde
- September 11 – October 3Mercury retrograde
- December 29 – February 8, 1990Venus retrograde
- December 30 – January 20, 1990Mercury retrograde
Slow planets changing sign
- March 11Jupiter enters Gemini
- July 30Jupiter enters Cancer
This is the story every Snake year shares
The stem and branch of 1989 describe the year itself, so they read the same for everyone born into it and everyone living through it. That is the group-level half. Your own chart also weighs your exact birth date, time, and location, which is what turns this into something specific to you.
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