Watches everything, reveals little, and is right more often than it says.
Snake is the branch of the building midday heat, the hours spent gathering before anything is shown. In a chart it reads as strategy kept private: you watch far longer than you speak, and you are usually already three moves further along than the room realizes. People experience this as composure, sometimes read as coldness when it's really just discretion. It shows up loudest wherever it sits in your four pillars — a year Snake carries it into your public reputation, a day Snake makes it your own temperament.