What it is
The 12th sign. 1 plus 2 make 3: fun, humour and luck.
Pig years add up to 3, 6 or 9.
Its hours each day: 9 pm to 11 pm.
As a person
Loves food and nights out, and never does anything by halves.
Quick to make a room laugh; comedy comes naturally to many Pigs.
Said to be the luckiest sign, and close behind the Goat for wealth.
Sticks by its friends and looks after its family well.
Loose with time for social plans, strict with it for business.
As a year
You are a Pig if you were born in one of these spans:
- 4 Feb 1935 to 23 Jan 1936
- 22 Jan 1947 to 9 Feb 1948
- 8 Feb 1959 to 27 Jan 1960
- 27 Jan 1971 to 14 Feb 1972
- 13 Feb 1983 to 1 Feb 1984
- 31 Jan 1995 to 18 Feb 1996
- 18 Feb 2007 to 6 Feb 2008
- 5 Feb 2019 to 24 Jan 2020
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 Pigs, Cats (Rabbits in most calendars) and Goats.
The enemy year of every Snake. Snakes do well to step back in it.
Next Pig years: 23 Jan 2031 to 10 Feb 2032; 10 Feb 2043 to 29 Jan 2044; 28 Jan 2055 to 14 Feb 2056.
As a month
The Pig month runs 7 Nov to 6 Dec each year. Anyone born in it carries a smaller dose of the Pig. It is the enemy month for everyone born in the Snake month.
Friends and enemy
Friends: Cat and Goat, 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: Snake, straight across the wheel. For a Pig, Snake years are for holding back. The Snake month is a lesser caution, unless the Pig was born in an Ox, Snake or Rooster month. For a Pig born in the Pig 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