Rabbit and Snake in love
Elegant and harmonious, with shared taste. The Snake must not keep too many secrets.
Neutral
Rabbit and Snake Compatibility
Rabbit and Snake compatibility: they sit 2 apart in the twelve-year cycle, a pairing the tradition classes as “Neutral”. We score it 68%.
- Relation
- Neutral no classical relation
- Steps apart
- 2 in the twelve-year cycle
- Next Rabbit year
- 2035 new year in late Jan or Feb
- Next Snake year
- 2037 new year in late Jan or Feb
New-year dates: Hong Kong Observatory calendar.
Neutral
68%
Are the Rabbit and Snake compatible?
Snake and Rabbit are both calm, cultured and appreciate the finer things. The Snake brings insight and strategy, the Rabbit brings diplomacy and warmth. They enjoy quiet sophistication together.
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Working together
A thoughtful team in design, strategy or advisory roles.
Where it goes wrong
The Snake's possessiveness making the Rabbit feel constrained.
Over time
How a Rabbit–Snake relationship usually unfolds
- At first. Elegant and harmonious; shared taste draws them together quickly.
- Once settled. A refined, peaceful household where the Snake protects and the Rabbit smooths.
- What keeps it working. The Snake keeping fewer secrets and loosening its hold.
Fixed elements
Wood Rabbit, fire Snake
generating · controlling
The Rabbit’s wood feeds the Snake’s fire — the image is kindling for a fire. On the generating cycle the Rabbit gives and the Snake receives.
The fixed element belongs to the animal and never changes; the element of a birth year (wood, fire, earth, metal or water) rotates every two years — see the years below.
On the twelve-year wheel
Where the Rabbit and the Snake sit on the wheel
- Rabbit–Snake, 2 steps apart: no classical relation.
- San He triangles. Snake with the Ox and the Rooster (dashed); Rabbit with the Goat and the Pig.
- Clash axes. Snake–Pig; Rabbit–Rooster.
- Secret friends. In the Liu He list the Snake pairs with the Monkey; the Rabbit pairs with the Dog.
- Six harms. Rabbit and Dragon; Snake and Tiger — not drawn.
Computed from 108 years of real lunar new year dates
The arithmetic behind this pairing
How the Rabbit and the Snake sit on the cycle, and the share of the century each one actually holds.
The 108-year table gives the Rabbit and the Snake almost the same number of days, 3,278 and 3,277; two positions apart, they make up 1.381% of all pairings.
Possible age gaps — fixed by the cycle
A Rabbit and a Snake can only be these numbers of years apart:
2
years apart
10
years apart
14
years apart
22
years apart
26
years apart
34
years apart
38
years apart
46
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
| Rabbit | Snake | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Water Rabbit 2023 | Water Snake 2013 | 10 years apart |
| Water Rabbit 2023 | Wood Snake 2025 | 2 years apart |
| Metal Rabbit 2011 | Metal Snake 2001 | 10 years apart |
| Metal Rabbit 2011 | Water Snake 2013 | 2 years apart |
| Earth Rabbit 1999 | Earth Snake 1989 | 10 years apart |
| Earth Rabbit 1999 | Metal Snake 2001 | 2 years apart |
| Fire Rabbit 1987 | Fire Snake 1977 | 10 years apart |
| Fire Rabbit 1987 | Earth Snake 1989 | 2 years apart |
Birth years for this pairing
Born in January or early February? Check the date before counting yourself a Rabbit or a Snake.
Rabbit
1963 · 1975 · 1987 · 1999 · 2011 · 2023Snake
1965 · 1977 · 1989 · 2001 · 2013 · 2025Cite this page
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