What it is
The 4th sign. Numen uses the method's name for it: Cat.
Cat years add up to 1, 4, 7 or 22.
Its hours each day: 5 am to 7 am.
As a person
Reads people by instinct. Observes from a distance, and will stir things up to learn more about someone.
Can play mind games, but only when it chooses to.
Very good reflexes, and very independent.
Looks after itself first, more than any other sign, and prefers to work alone. It stays untamed.
As a year
You are a Cat if you were born in one of these spans:
- 2 Feb 1927 to 22 Jan 1928
- 19 Feb 1939 to 7 Feb 1940
- 6 Feb 1951 to 26 Jan 1952
- 25 Jan 1963 to 12 Feb 1964
- 11 Feb 1975 to 30 Jan 1976
- 29 Jan 1987 to 16 Feb 1988
- 16 Feb 1999 to 4 Feb 2000
- 3 Feb 2011 to 22 Jan 2012
- 22 Jan 2023 to 9 Feb 2024
Each span runs from one Chinese New Year to the day before the next. New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February, so a birth date before 21 February can belong to the sign before.
Good for Cats, Goats and Pigs.
The enemy year of every Rooster.
Next Cat years: 8 Feb 2035 to 27 Jan 2036; 26 Jan 2047 to 13 Feb 2048; 12 Feb 2059 to 1 Feb 2060.
As a month
The Cat month runs 7 Mar to 6 Apr each year. Anyone born in it carries a smaller dose of the Cat. It is the enemy month for everyone born in the Rooster month.
Friends and enemy
Friends: Goat and Pig, the other two corners of its triangle. Inside this triangle the Goat and the Pig get on better with each other than with the Cat.
Enemy: Rooster, straight across the wheel. For a Cat, Rooster years are for holding back. The Rooster month is a lesser caution, unless the Cat was born in an Ox, Snake or Rooster month. For a Cat born in the Cat month it is the full enemy month: hold big starts in it.
No soulmate sign. The method names one soulmate pair only: Rat and Ox.
Friends
Enemy