Year of the SNAKE 2013

I follow such things only because satan and his minions certainly have "options" relative when they operate.
The Snake (蛇) is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac and related to the Chinese calendar, as well as in related East Asian zodiacal or calendrical systems. The Year of the Snake is associated with the earthly branch symbol 巳.^[1]
10 February 1929 – 29 January 1930: Earth Snake
1929 was the year prior to the :"metal" snake, stock market crash Great Depression.

• 27 January 1941 – 14 February 1942: Metal Snake (Pearl Harbor)
  
• 14 February 1953 – 2 February 1954: Water Snake (King Hussein crowned in Jordan, Queen Elizabeth II crowned, The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see Operation Ajax).,)
  
• 2 February 1965 – 20 January 1966: Wood Snake
  
• 18 February 1977 – 6 February 1978: Fire Snake
  
• 6 February 1989 – 26 January 1990: Earth Snake (Tianemen Square)
  
• 23 January 2001 – 11 February 2002: Metal Snake (9-11-2001)
  
• 10 February 2013 – 30 January 2014: Water Snake (TBD - + Comet ISON)
  

Aggregate work from Wikipedia. No new thing under the sun.