Chinese zodiac 1979
Year of the Earth Goat
28 January 1979 to 15 February 1980
Born in 1979? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1979 it falls on 28 January 1979.
- 28 January to 31 December 1979
- đ Earth Goat
- and on to 15 Feb 1980
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The Earth Goat at a glance
Animal
đ Goat
Said to be calm, kind, creative.
Element
å Yin 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 Goat years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Earth Goat years nearest to this one are 1919 and 2039.
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.