1998 Chinese zodiac
虎 Earth Tiger · yang
Born between 28 January 1998 and 15 February 1999: you are a Earth Tiger. Born in 1998 but before 28 January 1998: your sign is that of 1997, the Fire Ox.
The year
- New Year : 28 January 1998
- Ends : 15 February 1999
- Animal : Tiger
- Element : Earth (yang)
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
戊寅 wù yín
Year 15 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1938 and 2058.
The Tiger in one line
Brave and magnetic, it charges where others hesitate.
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.