Arcanes

The Chinese horoscope · the twelve animals·12th of twelve

The Pig

豬zhū

  • Branch 亥 · hài
  • Fixed element: Water
  • yin
  • Hour: 21:00 to 23:00
  • Direction: NNW

In a word

Generous, sincere, a lover of good living.

What tradition attributes to it

  • They love life, the table, friends, with no calculation.
  • Sincere, they can’t lie, and can’t see a liar coming either.
  • Generous to the point of recklessness.
  • Patient, tolerant, they forgive easily.
  • A quiet worker, they finish whatever is handed to them.

The other side

  • Naivety: they trust too fast.
  • They overdo it, in pleasures as in presents.
  • They avoid conflict to the point of being walked on.

In love

Affectionate, faithful, sensual, they love for real and give without counting. They need tenderness and sincerity; manipulation breaks them.

At work

In their element in what gets shared: food, care, hospitality, craft, teamwork. They do better when someone shields them from the sharp operators.

What helps

Before you say yes to the next request, sleep on it. If the yes is still there in the morning, it is the right one.

By the element of the year

  • Wood Pig: the most generous and the most sociable, a little too trusting.
  • Fire Pig: more ambitious, bolder, they think big.
  • Earth Pig: the most patient and the most solid, reliable in everything.
  • Metal Pig: more frank, prouder, tenacious.
  • Water Pig: the gentlest and the most intuitive, to be protected from those who take advantage.

The Year of the Fire Horse

This year for the Pig

Between the animal of the year and its own, tradition names nothing in particular: no triangle, no opposition, no secret friendship. An ordinary year, where the element counts for more.

Its own element is the one controlling the year's: a year where it leads rather than follows.

Chinese tradition reads the year by comparing this animal with the year's animal, then their two elements. It describes a mood, not events.

The years of the Pig

  1. February 4, 1935 → January 23, 1936Wood Pig乙亥
  2. January 22, 1947 → February 9, 1948Fire Pig丁亥
  3. February 8, 1959 → January 27, 1960Earth Pig己亥
  4. January 27, 1971 → February 14, 1972Metal Pig辛亥
  5. February 13, 1983 → February 1, 1984Water Pig癸亥
  6. January 31, 1995 → February 18, 1996Wood Pig乙亥
  7. February 18, 2007 → February 6, 2008Fire Pig丁亥
  8. February 5, 2019 → January 24, 2020Earth Pig己亥
  9. January 23, 2031 → February 10, 2032Metal Pig辛亥
  10. February 10, 2043 → January 29, 2044Water Pig癸亥

From Chinese New Year to the last day of the Chinese year. If your birthday falls in January or early February, your animal is often the one from the year before: check your birth date in the list.

With the others

  • Its affinity triangle: the Rabbit and the Goat. Three animals four years apart, who understand one another without effort, says tradition.
  • Its secret friend: the Tiger. The quiet pair, the one that gets along without showing it.
  • Its opposite: the Snake, six years apart, directly across on the wheel of the twelve animals. Not a ban: a difference in pace, one you can learn to work with.

Traditional affinities, not verdicts. Two people are two whole charts, not two birth years.

And you?

Your sign is based on the actual date of Chinese New Year, and your birth time gives your animal of the hour.

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