What it is
The 8th sign. Its 8 brings power, peace and prosperity.
Goat years add up to 11, 5 or 8.
Its hours each day: 1 pm to 3 pm.
As a person
Gets its way through warmth and charm rather than pressure.
Tops the signs for wealth, and is striking to look at.
Builds a circle of helpful people, then fronts and promotes what they create.
A born performer. Next to the Snake, the most gifted sign at numerology and astrology.
Some see it as soft; when pressed, it looks for a compromise before anyone else.
As a year
You are a Goat if you were born in one of these spans:
- 17 Feb 1931 to 5 Feb 1932
- 5 Feb 1943 to 24 Jan 1944
- 24 Jan 1955 to 11 Feb 1956
- 9 Feb 1967 to 29 Jan 1968
- 28 Jan 1979 to 15 Feb 1980
- 15 Feb 1991 to 3 Feb 1992
- 1 Feb 2003 to 21 Jan 2004
- 19 Feb 2015 to 7 Feb 2016
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 Goats, Pigs and Cats (Rabbits in most calendars).
The enemy year of every Ox.
Next Goat years: 6 Feb 2027 to 25 Jan 2028; 24 Jan 2039 to 11 Feb 2040; 11 Feb 2051 to 31 Jan 2052.
As a month
The Goat month runs 7 Jul to 6 Aug each year. Anyone born in it carries a smaller dose of the Goat. It is the enemy month for everyone born in the Ox month.
Friends and enemy
Friends: Cat 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: Ox, straight across the wheel. For a Goat, Ox years are for holding back. The Ox month is a lesser caution, unless the Goat was born in an Ox, Snake or Rooster month. For a Goat born in the Goat 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.
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