2025: Year of the Wood Snake

When does 2025 begin?

• Chinese New Year (the lunar calendar): January 29, 2025.
• BaZi (the solar calendar this page uses): the Start of Spring, February 3, 2025, 10:10 p.m. Beijing time — 9:10 a.m. on February 3 Eastern, 6:10 a.m. on February 3 Pacific.

Anyone born between those two dates falls in different years under the two calendars: already the year of the Snake by the lunar calendar, but still the year of the Dragon in BaZi.

The Heavenly Stem: 乙 (Wood)

Yin Wood is the vine or garden flower — flexible, adaptive, and better at bending around a problem than confronting it head-on.

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.

Which years are Snake years?

1941 Metal1953 Water1965 Wood1977 Fire1989 Earth2001 Metal2013 Water2025 Wood

Born in January or early February? In BaZi each of these years begins at the Start of Spring, around February 4. Born before it, you belong to the year before.

What 2025 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

• March 14Lunar eclipse
• March 29Solar eclipse
• September 7Lunar eclipse
• September 21Solar eclipse

Retrogrades

• December 6, 2024 – February 24Mars retrograde
• March 2 – April 13Venus retrograde
• March 15 – April 7Mercury retrograde
• July 18 – August 11Mercury retrograde
• November 9 – November 29Mercury retrograde

Slow planets changing sign

• March 30Neptune enters Aries
• May 25Saturn enters Aries
• June 9Jupiter enters Cancer
• July 7Uranus enters Gemini
• September 1Saturn enters Pisces
• October 22Neptune enters Pisces
• November 8Uranus enters Taurus