Chinese zodiac 1955
Year of the Wood Goat
24 January 1955 to 11 February 1956
Born in 1955? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1955 it falls on 24 January 1955.
- 24 January to 31 December 1955
- π Wood Goat
- and on to 11 Feb 1956
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The Wood Goat at a glance
Animal
π Goat
Said to be calm, kind, creative.
Element
ζ¨ Yin Wood
Linked with growth and generosity. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
384 days
A long year: the calendar adds a thirteenth, leap month.
Other Goat years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Wood Goat years nearest to this one are 1895 and 2015.
Who gets on with the Goat
Allies
Four years apart. The three animals of a trine are said to share a temperament.
Secret friend
One of six fixed pairs said to complement each other.
Opposite
Six years apart, directly across the wheel. Tradition calls this the hardest pairing.
Friction
One of six fixed pairs said to rub each other the wrong way.
Bonds come from each animal's position among the twelve, as tradition sets them. They describe the Goat sign in general, not any one person.
Dates are computed estimates from the Hong Kong Observatory's calendar tables, counted in China's time zone. Some traditions change the animal at the start of spring (around 4 February) instead of at Lunar New Year.