1999 Chinese zodiac
兔 Earth Rabbit · yin
Born between 16 February 1999 and 4 February 2000: you are a Earth Rabbit. Born in 1999 but before 16 February 1999: your sign is that of 1998, the Earth Tiger.
The year
- New Year : 16 February 1999
- Ends : 4 February 2000
- Animal : Rabbit
- 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
己卯 jǐ mǎo
Year 16 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1939 and 2059.
The Rabbit in one line
Gentle and diplomatic, it prefers harmony to conflict.
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.