Chinese zodiac 2014
Year of the Wood Horse
31 January 2014 to 18 February 2015
Born in 2014? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 2014 it falls on 31 January 2014.
- 31 January to 31 December 2014
- 🐎 Wood Horse
- and on to 18 Feb 2015
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The Wood Horse at a glance
Animal
🐎 Horse
Said to be lively, independent, warm.
Element
木 Yang 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 Horse years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Wood Horse years nearest to this one are 1954 and 2074.
Who gets on with the Horse
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 Horse 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.