Chinese zodiac 2017
Year of the Fire Rooster
28 January 2017 to 15 February 2018
Born in 2017? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 2017 it falls on 28 January 2017.
- 28 January to 31 December 2017
- π Fire Rooster
- and on to 15 Feb 2018
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The Fire Rooster at a glance
Animal
π Rooster
Said to be observant, hard-working, direct.
Element
η« Yin Fire
Linked with passion and drive. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
384 days
A long year: the calendar adds a thirteenth, leap month.
Other Rooster years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Fire Rooster years nearest to this one are 1957 and 2077.
Who gets on with the Rooster
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 Rooster 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.