Find your animal, element and place in the 60-year cycle from your birth year, with the Chinese New Year turnover handled correctly.
The Chinese zodiac (生肖, shēngxiào) brings together 12 animals, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig, each tied to a lunar year. On top of them come the five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water) and the yin and yang polarity, which change every two years. The combination of animal and element only repeats after 60 years, the sexagenary cycle, which is why there is a Wood Dragon and a Metal Snake. What confuses people most is the turnover: the Chinese year does not begin on January 1 but on Lunar New Year, the new moon that falls between January 21 and February 20. Anyone born before that date belongs to the previous year's animal. This tool uses a table of Lunar New Year dates from 1900 to 2100, generated by astronomical calculation of new moons and solar terms and checked by tests, so the turnover happens on the right day. Besides your animal, element and polarity, you get your place in the 60-year cycle, the affinity triangle, the ideal pair and the clash animal, a comparison with another person, the five elements, the next years your animal returns and the signs of the current and next year. Everything runs in your browser. It is a cultural tradition, used here as a symbolic reading and entertainment, not as a prediction.
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By your birth year in the Chinese lunar calendar. Enter the full date and the tool shows your animal, element, yin or yang polarity, place in the 60-year cycle and a personality reading. The animal depends on the lunar year, not the calendar year.
Day and month matter: the Chinese year turns in January or February.
Your date stays in the browser and is never sent to servers.