Day pillar: Earth Goat (yin, 己未), day 56 of the sixty-day cycle — in the Chinese calendar the day changes at midnight.
Portrait of the animal
Quick, sociable and resourceful, the Rat adapts to anything and always keeps something in reserve; in love it needs complicity and hates boredom.
Fixed element: Water. Water brings intuition and flexibility. In popular Chinese astrology, the birth animal carries a fixed element, to which the element of the year is added (the sixty-year cycle); it is the fixed element that the daily horoscope compares with the element of the day.
Traditional affinities: compatibility triangle with the Dragon and the Monkey, secret ally the Ox, opposition with the Horse. The daily horoscope applies exactly these relationships to the animal of the day.
In love
In love, tradition looks first to the animals of the same affinity triangle — for the Rat: the Dragon and the Monkey — and to the secret ally, the Ox; the opposite animal, the Horse, takes more effort. The detail, animal by animal: love and the Chinese zodiac; your exact animal from your date of birth: the Chinese zodiac calculator.
Frequently asked questions
Which years belong to the Rat?
1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020. The Chinese year starts at the lunar new year, between 21 January and 20 February: someone born in January or early February usually belongs to the previous year’s animal. The calculator takes the exact date into account.
What is the element of my birth year?
Each year also carries one of the five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water), two years in a row each, in a sixty-year cycle; it is added to the animal’s fixed element (Water for the Rat). The Chinese zodiac calculator gives the animal and element of your year.
Where does today’s text come from?
From the day pillar: each day of the Chinese calendar carries a heavenly stem (an element, yin or yang) and an earthly branch (an animal), in a sixty-day cycle. The page compares the animal of the day with yours (same animal, ally, triangle, opposition, harm, punishment) and the element of the day with your fixed element (the cycle of the five elements), following the traditional rules; the closing tip is drawn by lot with the date. No prediction.
