Chinese zodiac 1967
Year of the Fire Goat
9 February 1967 to 29 January 1968
Born in 1967? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1967 it falls on 9 February 1967.
- 9 February to 31 December 1967
- π Fire Goat
- and on to 29 Jan 1968
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The Fire Goat at a glance
Animal
π Goat
Said to be calm, kind, creative.
Element
η« Yin Fire
Linked with passion and drive. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
355 days
A regular year of twelve lunar months.
Other Goat years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Fire Goat years nearest to this one are 1907 and 2027.
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.