2020 Chinese zodiac
鼠 Metal Rat · yang
Born between 25 January 2020 and 11 February 2021: you are a Metal Rat. Born in 2020 but before 25 January 2020: your sign is that of 2019, the Earth Pig.
The year
- New Year : 25 January 2020
- Ends : 11 February 2021
- Animal : Rat
- Element : Metal (yang)
The Metal element
determination, rigour, uprightness.
Each animal returns every twelve years with a different element: the same pair only comes back every sixty years.
In the sixty-year cycle
庚子 gēng zǐ
Year 37 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1960 and 2080.
The Rat in one line
Quick and resourceful, it spots the opportunity before anyone else.
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.