A walks in front of a picture of snake in celebration of the Year of the Snake at Ikuta Shrine (© Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

Chinese astrologers call for tricky, twisty Year of the Snake

2/9/2013

We're looking at a year only a Slytherin could love, Chinese astrologers say. The Lunar New Year comes on Sunday, ushering in the Year of the Snake — and it's a year that traditional forecasters say could bring economic upheaval and geopolitical strife. They point to events in previous years of the snake as evidence, including the calamitous terror attacks of 2001 and the 1941 Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor. This year, one prominent astrologer says, we're in for a brief war between Japan and China and economic stagnation — though PSY appears to make out well. Gong hey fat choy? [Source]

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