Chinese zodiac 1968
Year of the Earth Monkey
30 January 1968 to 16 February 1969
Born in 1968? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1968 it falls on 30 January 1968.
- 30 January to 31 December 1968
- 🐒 Earth Monkey
- and on to 16 Feb 1969
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The Earth Monkey at a glance
Animal
🐒 Monkey
Said to be clever, curious, playful.
Element
土 Yang Earth
Linked with stability and patience. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
384 days
A long year: the calendar adds a thirteenth, leap month.
Other Monkey years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Earth Monkey years nearest to this one are 1908 and 2028.
Who gets on with the Monkey
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 Monkey 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.