Born in 2001

What 2001 carries

From the community: Intuitive, analytical, mysterious, strategic, charismatic. Can be secretive, distrustful, possessive, or vengeful.

From the year: Intelligent and insightful, able to captivate others with charm and grace. Polished in appearance, seeking attention and affection.

The community's Fire controls the year's Metal. This is the pressed position: the Snake Spirit Guardian's character sets the terms and the year's element concedes them, so the traits below run stronger here than in the community's other years, with less to temper them.

The community itself is written out in full on the Snake Spirit Guardian's page — character, love, work and the communities it is bound to.

All of that is about being born in 2001. What a year does to the people living through it is a separate reading on a separate clock — and, unlike the community above, it does not move at the lunar new year. That is the Year scale of Time Analysis, one of five.

2001 with the years around it

Every year from 1989 to 2013, read against 2001. Twenty-five consecutive years contain every community at least twice and never with the same element behind it, which is the clearest demonstration of the thing these pages keep asserting: the community comes back, the reading does not.

These readings are the first of the board's four layers — the birth years alone — and it carries weight 0.30 of the result. The other three read the two charts rather than the two communities, so a strong or difficult year layer is where a reading starts, not where it lands.

The birth years 2001 is bound to

Nobody goes looking for a community. They go looking for the person born in a particular year, so the four relations worth naming are given here as the nearest year that carries each.

• 2004— the Monkey Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1997— the Taurus Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2005— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1995— the Elephant Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1998— the Lion Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 2001?

2001 belongs to the Snake Spirit Guardian, the community of illumination, with Fire as its own element. The year's element pillar is Metal (-), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 2001 reads differently from 1953 and 1965.

What element is 2001?

Metal (-) — Intelligent and insightful, able to captivate others with charm and grace. Polished in appearance, seeking attention and affection. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Fire the Snake Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 2001 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 2001. Is this still my year?

Probably not. The cycle turns at Lunar New Year rather than on 1 January, so a birth in January or the first days of February usually belongs to 2000 and to the Dragon Spirit Guardian. Roughly one birth in eight sits on the wrong side of that line. Add your month and day on the board and it settles the question rather than guessing.

Which birth years are most compatible with 2001?

2004 (Monkey Spirit Guardian), 1997 (Taurus Spirit Guardian), 2005 (Eagle Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1995 sits on the opposing axis. Those are branch relations only, which is the first of four layers the board reads and carries weight 0.30 of the result; the other three read the two charts rather than the two communities, so a clash here is a starting point and not a conclusion.