Chinese Zodiac

Chinese Zodiac is basically made up of a 12-year cycle and the Chinese animal signs are used for dating the years. While the Western concept of time is linear, the Chinese one is cyclical. The Chinese Lunar Calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, and is quite different from the Western calendar. According to the Chinese calendar, the year begins somewhere towards the end of January or early February.

As mentioned above, the Chinese calendar is cyclical; therefore it simply means that certain things will be repeated after a time. The popular way of doing so is by using the Twelve Animal Signs. Each year is assigned an animal and they go in this cycle: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar. After a 12-year cycle that ends at the Boar, it would go back to the year of the Rat once more.

The Chinese Zodiac is based on a twelve year cycle, each year being represented by an animal. Find the year you were born to determine your own sign.

RAT (Born in 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008)

OX (Born in 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009)

TIGER (Born in 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010)

RABBIT/ HARE (Born in 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011)

DRAGON (Born in 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000)

SNAKE (Born in 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001)

HORSE (Born in 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014)

SHEEP (Born in 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015)

MONKEY (Born in 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016)

ROOSTER (Born in 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017)

DOG (Born in 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018)

PIG/BOAR (Born in 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019)