We’re guessing that a forked tongue means you can soothe any prospective prey or hunter twice as fast as anyone else, and what a fine year this may be to make full use of that ability. The slithery path ahead of you brings all the challenges associated with cage or glue traps, Steve Irwin snake-tong wielders, and a landscape full of mongoose-shaped illusions. Looking to the heavens will only show more danger than safety - keep your infrared, thermal-vision focused on 2026!
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It’s a tough coil to see you through all that may ail your royal wiggleness this year. One right spot in the cosmos is the Heavenly Relief Star, designed to cast all attacks and pesky challenges this year to hiss-tory. Its job is to constrictor all manner of ill-will. For your health: be proactive, we humbly suggest that mowing your lawn will deter snakes in the grass, and allow you to glide through the year.
A little extra side-winding this year will help stock your fridge with sufficient frozen mammals and marsupials for consumption at a later date. Not a year to look wealth directly in the eye. A direct approach, attempting to swallow a load of treasure bigger than your flexible jaws can stomach, might only lead to indigestion.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest snake of all? Apparently this year it’s you. Surprised? Well, all the other candidates were hissed-off and departed. The snakebite of love is a delight you wish to bestow on others, but this year you may be bitten back and the Tai Sui is there to take advantage of that and tie your sinuous self up in knots. Dare we suggest, a few drops of the mystical, righteous snake oil might make the slide of love a little smoother to move along.
If your bile is sticky enough you might liver a little better than expected this year by hanging onto those ladders that scale the heights of a career. Pack a funhouse mirror into your work satchel and wear it at all times, it’ll make you look as straight as a die and put you in a position to make more of the year than you might reasonably expect.
Sorcerer: Dr James Greenbaum
Sorcerer's apprentice: Susan Zhang
Wand bearer: Forest Chan
Director/Editor: Yukti Vidyarthi
Translation editor: Melanie Ng
Design/Art: Lizzie Lau; Anna Lai; Elva Lau; Patrina Leung; Jon Berkeley
Web development: Paul Ngan; Timothy Wang
Video production: Alexandra Lee; Luna Deng
Thanks to: Sandy Chen Dowling; Ellen Lo
Producer: Liz Patterson