Sign Of The Snake
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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If you are born on a Snake year you are friendly, compassionate, passionate, intuitive, sexual, sensual, amusing, beautiful, discreet, and able to work with others. The negative qualities of the Snake are self-righteousness and pessimism. The Snake can also be very judgmental, clinging, haughty, and sexually obsessed.
The main quality of the Snake personality is seduction. Snake people will have people love them due to their sexual presence and overwhelming beauty. The Snake, as an archetype, is always the tempter and the emblem of life's cyclic nature. There is no malicious quality, for the Snake person usually can't stop themselves from tempting and seducing. They live for the attention of the social group and the sexual attention from whomever they have deemed as lovely as themselves. They are extremely self-absorbed, yet in this create a presence of beauty that most others enjoy. The Snake person will usually love themselves, taking care of their bodies diligently out of this enormous self-love. They will dress perfectly and appropriately for every occasion.
The downfalls of the Snake are sexual obsession and lying. In China, the Snake person is thought to be a liar and it is unfortunate to be born on a Snake year. Snake people can even be pathological liars, weaving mythic spells through the minds of their listeners, appearing to be whatever the people in the conversation want them to be. The Snake can be ingeniously deceptive, creating multiple layers of falsehood that when their lying is discovered, the truth still isn't revealed. The Snake woman in particular is an adulteress. This lying quality is the worst in Snakes because it usually becomes pathological if the Snake person faces failure or rejection. The Snake will deceive so much they themselves believe their own untruths, which is psychologically dangerous. They can become sex and drug addicts in the worst case scenario; completely given over to the vanity of debauchery and boasting, usually over things that are fabrications.
Obviously this oversexed, not completely genuine personality doesn't fare that well in society, unless the Snake is a very wealthy person to begin with. With money, the Snake will gladly spend a fortune on expensive jewelry, then be unable to pay the hundred dollar phone bill. They will be generous with family and friends, yet careful not to give to many others. Most of their focus will go toward self accessorizing and personal beauty. Overall, they are greedy enough about money to keep it, even though they will lavishly spend on vanities and creature comforts.
Comfort, repetitive daily routines and traditions are also a must for the Snake person. They will sacrifice most everything else in their lives in order to keep their sense of security, even their notorious passion. In chaotic and disruptive circumstances the Snake will go crazy. As Snakes grow older, they will regard this comfort as more and more important to themselves. After the Snake’s seductiveness and beauty fade with age, this sense of security and usually accomplishment in life become the aged Snake's main foci, rather than seduction and acceptance due to the glamour of one's being.