Chinese zodiac · Year of the Snake
The Fire Snake: 1977, 2037, 2097
丁巳 · Ding sì · Yin Fire stem on the Fire branch
A Fire Snake year pairs the Heavenly Stem 丁 (Ding, yin Fire) with the Earthly Branch 巳 (sì, the Snake). The pair recurs every sixty years, so in the range AsterNym covers the Fire Snake years are 1977, 2037, 2097. The animal is the same each time; the stem is what makes a Fire Snake different from a Wood Snake or a Earth Snake. The popular zodiac begins each of these years at Lunar New Year and BaZi begins it at Li Chun, so both boundaries are given below for every year.
What a Fire Snake is like
Popular Chinese zodiac tradition. For reflection, not prediction.
The Fire Snake is intense and persuasive, magnetic in a room and unforgiving of a slight.
1977 Fire Snakes are intense and persuasive, and the tradition's magnetic, unforgiving Snake describes a year that produced a great many people who are hard to say no to.
In BaZi terms the Fire stem sits on a Fire branch, the same element twice. Practitioners read a matched pair as a year with one clear voice: the Snake's nature amplified rather than argued with, strong in its own direction and short of counterweight. Whatever the Snake does, this year does more of it.
The rest of the Snake’s character, in love, at work and the growing edge, is on the Year of the Snake page.
Fire Snake years and when each begins
The popular zodiac year begins at Lunar New Year; BaZi begins it at Li Chun, the start of spring. Both dates are given so a birth between them can be placed in either system.
| Year | Lunar New Year (popular zodiac) | Ends | Li Chun (BaZi) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 18 February 1977 | 6 February 1978 | 4 February 1977 |
| 2037 | 15 February 2037 | 3 February 2038 | 3 February 2037 |
| 2097 | outside the table | … | 3 February 2097 |
The next Fire Snake year is 2037. Check any birthday against the boundary with the finder.
Famous Fire Snakes
Public birth records, assigned by the Lunar New Year boundary.
Common questions
- When does the Year of the Fire Snake start?
- The 1977 Fire Snake year began at Lunar New Year on 18 February 1977 and ran to 6 February 1978. The 2037 Fire Snake year began at Lunar New Year on 15 February 2037 and ran to 3 February 2038. 2097 is outside AsterNym's Lunar New Year table. BaZi turns the year at Li Chun instead (1977: 4 February 1977; 2037: 3 February 2037; 2097: 3 February 2097), so a birth between the two dates carries different year animals in the two systems.
- What is a Fire Snake personality?
- The Fire Snake is intense and persuasive, magnetic in a room and unforgiving of a slight. In BaZi terms the Fire stem sits on a Fire branch, the same element twice. Practitioners read a matched pair as a year with one clear voice: the Snake's nature amplified rather than argued with, strong in its own direction and short of counterweight. Whatever the Snake does, this year does more of it.
- When is the next Fire Snake year?
- 2037. The pair of stem 丁 and branch 巳 recurs every sixty years.