1979 Chinese zodiac
羊 Earth Goat · yin
Born between 28 January 1979 and 15 February 1980: you are a Earth Goat. Born in 1979 but before 28 January 1979: your sign is that of 1978, the Earth Horse.
The year
- New Year : 28 January 1979
- Ends : 15 February 1980
- Animal : Goat
- Element : Earth (yin)
The Earth element
stability, realism, reliability.
Each animal returns every twelve years with a different element: the same pair only comes back every sixty years.
In the sixty-year cycle
己未 jǐ wèi
Year 56 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1919 and 2039.
Dates computed from the real positions of the Sun and Moon (NASA JPL DE440s ephemeris, Beijing time) under the rules of the Chinese calendar, and checked against published dates.