1933 Chinese zodiac sign: Water Rooster

Chinese year 1933 begins on Thursday, January 26, 1933, and ends on Tuesday, February 13, 1934, the day before the Year of the Wood Dog begins. It has a full 384 days, because it is a leap year with 13 lunar months; the next one comes in 1936. 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 Wednesday, January 25, 1933 at 6:20 p.m. ET. In Beijing it is already January 26, 7:20 a.m. China Standard Time, and the Beijing date sets New Year's Day, so the new year begins on January 26.

The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Thursday, February 9, 1933. The year's first full moon falls on Friday, February 10, 1933 at 8:01 a.m. ET. The penumbral lunar eclipse takes place at this same full moon.

It is year 10 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1924 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 癸酉 (guǐyǒu): the heavenly stem 癸 gives the element and the earthly branch 酉 the animal.

In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 1933 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 Saturday, February 4, 1933 at 1:09 a.m. Eastern Time. That is 9 days after Chinese New Year, so anyone born between January 26 and that moment already has the Water Rooster sign in the lunar calendar but still the Water Monkey sign in Ba Zi.

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

The Rooster is the sign of hard work and honesty. It is observant, organized and precise, and bold in voicing its opinions.

Intuition, flexibility and a gift for persuasion. Water softens a sign and teaches it to go with the flow.

The Water element covers two years in a row, 1932 (yang) and 1933 (yin), and comes back every ten years: before that in 1922–1923, next in 1942–1943.

Water teaches the Rooster tact. The Water Rooster is calmer than its relatives, has good intuition and delivers its remarks more gently, so people are more willing to listen. It is intelligent, organized and helpful. Sometimes, though, it gets lost in the details and loses sight of the goal.

In 2026, people born in 1933 turn 93 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as a year with no special tie for the Rooster. People born in 1933 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2029, when they turn 96 years old.

The Rooster comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 1933, the Water Rooster, returns every 60 years: in 1873, 1933 and 1993.