How is my Chinese zodiac animal worked out?

Your animal comes from the lunar year you were born in, and a lunar year begins at Chinese New Year, on a new moon between 21 January and 20 February. We look up the exact Chinese New Year date for your birth year in a table that runs from 1920 to 2035. Born before that date, your animal belongs to the previous year. Born on or after it, you have your calendar year's animal.

I was born in January or early February. Which animal am I?

It depends on the date that year. Chinese New Year 1991 fell on 15 February, so someone born on 20 January 1991 is a Horse, from the lunar year 1990, not a Goat. Calculators that use 1 January as the boundary give people born in these weeks the wrong animal. Ours uses the real date, and your reading states it on its first page.

What is in the $49 reading?

A 26-page PDF written for your birth date: your animal, its fixed element, the element and Yin or Yang of your birth year, the five-element cycle, an approximate inner animal from your birth month, the animal tradition pairs you with and the one it sets against you, your Ben Ming Nian years, the year ahead and a closing letter. It arrives by email within a few minutes of payment.

What does the family reading add?

For $79 more you add one to five people. Each person gets a page with their animal and elements, every pair in the family is read through its strongest animal relationship and its five-element relationship, and a summary shows where the family's energy comes from, who sets the limits and where the friction lives.

How is the reading made?

Your reading is computed from your birth date and assembled from a library of texts written for Skyprint. Before a new version of the book goes out, an automated check reads 147 sample books back against the calendar: every year label, every element relationship and every Yin or Yang note. The reading describes a symbolic tradition for reflection and entertainment, not a prediction.

THE CHINESE ZODIAC COLLECTION

Your Chinese zodiac: Your animal.
Your element.
Your story.

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Twelve animals, five elements and one place in the cycle that belongs to you. Your Chinese zodiac animal is set by the lunar year you were born in, which starts at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January. Enter your birth date to find yours.

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THE TWELVE EARTHLY BRANCHES05 / 12

EXAMPLE READING · 17 JULY 1988

The Dragon

Presence. Imagination. Possibility.

YANG EARTH · 1988

YOUR EXAMPLE READING

The Yang Earth Dragon.

A traditional symbol of imagination, confidence and a generous spirit.

YEAR ELEMENT: Earth
ANIMAL ELEMENT: Earth
POLARITY: Yang
YOUR ZODIAC YEAR: 1988

Your zodiac year began on 17 February 1988.

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A personal Chinese zodiac readingYour nameThe Yang Earth Dragon, born 17 July 1988

Bronze design. Black and gold, your animal cast at the centre of the disc.

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Four cast discs, the same twelve animals in relief on each. Bronze and Lacquer are the warmest, Jade and Silver the coolest. Your own animal keeps its bronze and gold on every design.

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Optional. Printed in a gold ring above your name on the page that says whose reading this is. A clear face works best.

Every page inside follows the cover: the same metal in the chapter openers, the same accent on the tables and the wheel. The words do not change. If it is a gift, you can add a dedication at checkout, printed on its own page right after the cover.

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How it works

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Your date of birth

Just the day, no time and no place. Add family members if you want the family reading, each with a name and a date.

Your year, from the real calendar

We look up the Chinese New Year of your birth year, so a January or February birthday gets the right animal, then work out your two elements, Yin or Yang and your place in the sixty-year cycle.

Your book, by email

Every chapter is assembled for your animal and your elements into a 26-page PDF with your name on the cover, and sent to your inbox a few minutes after payment.

Sample pages

Three pages from one reader's copy

Chapter 1Page 5

Your animal, drawn and explained

You expect good things to happen to you, and that expectation does most of the work. There is a natural authority in how you carry yourself that other people respond to before you have said very much. You think in scale: not the next step, but the whole arc, and you are rarely satisfied with a small version of anything you actually care about.

The cost is the gap between deciding and starting. You can spend a long time circling something impressive before you actually begin it, and from the outside that can look like arrogance or laziness rather than what it usually is, which is waiting for the moment to be worthy of the effort. Nothing is ever fully worthy in advance. Start before it is.

Chapter 7Page 17

Who you match

Three Harmonies: Dragon, Monkey and Rat. Three animals sit four positions apart around the wheel, forming what tradition calls the Three Harmonies, the strongest form of natural alliance in the whole system. People who share this triangle with you tend to move at a compatible pace without having to negotiate it, the way certain conversations simply do not require translation.

Six Harmonies: Dragon and Rooster. Your Liu He match is traditionally read as your steadiest complement, the relationship where what you lack, they tend to supply, and what they lack, you tend to supply, without either side having to become someone else to make it work.

Chapter 10Page 23

2027, the year of the Yin Fire Goat

A Goat year is neutral for a Dragon: not an ally, not a clash, none of the strong currents the wheel produces between certain pairs. Tradition reads a neutral year as open weather. It will not carry you and it will not fight you, so the texture of the year comes mostly from what you bring to it, and from the elements.

Third layer, the year's own element: 2027 carries Yin Fire in its heavenly stem, the quieter, inward-turned form of the element. Read against your Dragon's Earth, Fire feeds Earth: on top of the animal reading, the year's element nourishes yours, a quiet tailwind that tends to show up as things being slightly easier than they look.

From Anna's copy, born 17 July 1988, a Yang Earth Dragon, in the Bronze design. The words are the book's own; yours are written for your animal and your elements, and your family's if you add them.

Inside the book

There is more to your animal.

A reading that follows the connections: your animal, your two elements, your relationships and the cycle ahead. Eleven chapters, made personal.

Skyprint

THE CHINESE ZODIAC COLLECTION

The Dragon

YOUR ANIMAL. YOUR ELEMENT. YOUR STORY.

Your personal book · A 26-page PDF, delivered by email

The twelve animals

Which one feels familiar?

Meet the animals at the heart of the Chinese zodiac. Choose one to explore its traditional character.

EARTH · YANG

The Dragon

Some people see what is.
You imagine what could be.

In Chinese zodiac tradition, the Dragon represents ambition, imagination and generosity. Its story asks what you could create when you give your ideas both courage and care.

RECENT DRAGON YEARS

1964 · 1976 · 1988 · 2000 · 2012 · 2024

Find your place in the cycle

The lunar calendar

Your year begins with a new moon

A Chinese zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year. If your birthday falls before that date, your animal belongs to the previous zodiac year.

Our calculator checks the Chinese New Year date for your birth year. That small detail matters most for January and February birthdays.

Check your birth date

A SINGLE DAY. A DIFFERENT ANIMAL.2024

FEBRUARY09Water Rabbit

FEBRUARY10Wood Dragon

Chinese New Year fell on 10 February in 2024.
A birthday one day earlier is still in the Rabbit year.

Family reading

Your family. A shared story.

Two to six people, each with their own place in the cycle. Explore the traditional animal and element connections between you. A symbolic reading to start a conversation.

Price

One reading, yours to keep

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Your 26-page reading as PDF, with your name on the cover
Your cover design, and your photo on the first page if you want it
Your animal, its fixed element, your year's element and Yin or Yang, dated from the real Chinese New Year
Who you match, who challenges you, your Ben Ming Nian years and the year ahead
A dedication page if it is a gift
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Your family, animal by animal + $791 to 5 people besides you, each with a name and a date of birth. Every pair is read through its animal and its element.

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Questions

Questions, answered.

How your animal is found, what the book holds and how it reaches you.

How is my Chinese zodiac animal worked out?
Your animal comes from the lunar year you were born in, and a lunar year begins at Chinese New Year, on a new moon between 21 January and 20 February. We look up the exact Chinese New Year date for your birth year in a table that runs from 1920 to 2035. Born before that date, your animal belongs to the previous year. Born on or after it, you have your calendar year's animal.
I was born in January or early February. Which animal am I?
It depends on the date that year. Chinese New Year 1991 fell on 15 February, so someone born on 20 January 1991 is a Horse, from the lunar year 1990, not a Goat. Calculators that use 1 January as the boundary give people born in these weeks the wrong animal. Ours uses the real date, and your reading states it on its first page.
What is in the $49 reading?
A 26-page PDF written for your birth date: your animal, its fixed element, the element and Yin or Yang of your birth year, the five-element cycle, an approximate inner animal from your birth month, the animal tradition pairs you with and the one it sets against you, your Ben Ming Nian years, the year ahead and a closing letter. It arrives by email within a few minutes of payment.
What does the family reading add?
For $79 more you add one to five people. Each person gets a page with their animal and elements, every pair in the family is read through its strongest animal relationship and its five-element relationship, and a summary shows where the family's energy comes from, who sets the limits and where the friction lives.
How is the reading made?
Your reading is computed from your birth date and assembled from a library of texts written for Skyprint. Before a new version of the book goes out, an automated check reads 147 sample books back against the calendar: every year label, every element relationship and every Yin or Yang note. The reading describes a symbolic tradition for reflection and entertainment, not a prediction.

Your Chinese zodiac: Your animal.Your element.Your story.

The Dragon

The Yang Earth Dragon.

Your cover, your colours, and your photo inside

Three steps, and the last one takes minutes

Your date of birth

Your year, from the real calendar

Your book, by email

Three pages from one reader's copy

Your animal, drawn and explained

Who you match

2027, the year of the Yin Fire Goat

There is more to your animal.

Which one feels familiar?

The Dragon

Your year begins with a new moon

Your family. A shared story.

One reading, yours to keep

Questions, answered.

How is my Chinese zodiac animal worked out?

I was born in January or early February. Which animal am I?

What is in the $49 reading?

What does the family reading add?

How is the reading made?

Your Chinese zodiac: Your animal.
Your element.
Your story.