1925 Chinese zodiac sign: Wood Ox

Chinese year 1925 begins on Saturday, January 24, 1925, and ends on Friday, February 12, 1926, the day before the Year of the Fire Tiger begins. It has a full 385 days, because it is a leap year with 13 lunar months; the next one comes in 1928. The Chinese calendar adds the extra month roughly every two or three years so that it doesn't drift away from the seasons.

The year opens with the new moon on Saturday, January 24, 1925 at 9:45 a.m. ET, which is 10:31 p.m. Beijing local mean time, so the date is the same in New York and in Beijing. The total solar eclipse takes place at this same new moon.

The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Saturday, February 7, 1925. The year's first full moon falls on Sunday, February 8, 1925 at 4:49 p.m. ET. The partial lunar eclipse takes place at this same full moon.

It is year 2 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1924 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 乙丑 (yǐchǒu): the heavenly stem 乙 gives the element and the earthly branch 丑 the animal.

In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 1925 begins not at the lunar New Year but at the moment of lìchūn (立春, “start of spring”), when the Sun reaches 315° of ecliptic longitude: on Wednesday, February 4, 1925 at 2:36 a.m. Eastern Time. That is 11 days after Chinese New Year, so anyone born between January 24 and that moment already has the Wood Ox sign in the lunar calendar but still the Wood Rat sign in Ba Zi.

This page and the calculator give your sign by the lunar calendar.

The Ox, called the Buffalo in some sources, is the sign of perseverance. It works patiently, keeps its word and doesn't quit halfway, even when everyone else gave up long ago.

Growth, curiosity and cooperation. Wood brings a gardener's patience: it builds slowly, with an eye on what will grow in the years ahead.

The Wood element covers two years in a row, 1924 (yang) and 1925 (yin), and comes back every ten years: before that in 1914–1915, next in 1934–1935.

The Wood Ox is more open than its relatives. Wood gives it a feel for people and a willingness to cooperate, so it hears a new idea out before rejecting it. It stays hardworking and dependable, but it can also change its mind when someone gives it good arguments. On a team it often brings together people who would never get along on their own.

In 2026, people born in 1925 turn 101 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as a year with no special tie for the Ox. People born in 1925 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2033, when they turn 108 years old.

The Ox comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 1925, the Wood Ox, returns every 60 years: in 1865, 1925 and 1985.