Gong xi fa tsai!
This February 10th, today, marks the day of the largest mass migration of people in the entire calendar year; it's the Lunar New Year. Celebrated in Asia for thousands of years, we now leave the Year of the Dragon, and enter into the Year of the Snake.
According to Chinese astrology, children born this year will be smart, yet possessive. Easy to love, but jealous. Charismatic and intelligent, the snake is good at, well, snaking things out of people and catching vibes. Snakes are thinkers, motivated, creative, but also prone to revenge.
It's a lot of fun to posit all this stuff about Snakes and all, but of course it doesn't really pigeon-hole people anymore than Western astrology does. Still, it's all in good fun, and makes a great excuse to go out and eat pork-soup dumplings and gui zhou beef.
So, enjoy this year of the Water Snake, and get your slither on!
新年快樂
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