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2001 is the Year of the Snake — yin metal energy in the sixty-year cycle.
What the 2001 year is made of
The animal is the Snake, the element is metal, the polarity yin. In the old notation the year writes as 辛 巳. Position in the sexagenary wheel: 18 of 60.
If you were born in 2001
Your sign is the Snake: wise, intuitive, mysterious, elegant, guarded.
The number behind 2001
Add the digits of 2001 and you land on 3 — the same life-path number astrologers read for people born this year.
Life path 3 explains the personal side; the Snake explains the collective one.
For the complete profile of the sign itself, see the Snake page.
The metal half of 2001 reads as .
The cycle clock: 18/60. Halfway is 2014 — opposite energy, same animal every 5 years.
Luck in 2001 runs on the metal rhythm: the opening months set the tone.
- Published: August 4, 2026