Chinese zodiac 2015
Year of the Wood Goat
19 February 2015 to 7 February 2016
Born in 2015? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 2015 it falls on 19 February 2015.
- 19 February to 31 December 2015
- π Wood Goat
- and on to 7 Feb 2016
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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
354 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 Wood Goat years nearest to this one are 1955 and 2075.
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.