2025: Year of the Wood Snake
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 2025 is 乙巳 — Yin Wood over the Snake branch.
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.
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
This is the story every Snake year shares
The stem and branch of 2025 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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