1975 Chinese zodiac sign: Wood Rabbit

Chinese year 1975 begins on Tuesday, February 11, 1975, and ends on Friday, January 30, 1976, the day before the Year of the Fire Dragon begins. It has 354 days, or 12 lunar months: each month starts on a new moon, so it is 29 or 30 days long. The next leap year, with a thirteenth month, comes in 1976.

The year opens with the new moon on Tuesday, February 11, 1975 at 12:17 a.m. ET, which is 1:17 p.m. China Standard Time, so the date is the same in New York and in Beijing.

The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Tuesday, February 25, 1975. The year's first full moon falls on Tuesday, February 25, 1975 at 9:15 p.m. ET.

It is year 52 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1924 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 乙卯 (yǐmǎo): the heavenly stem 乙 gives the element and the earthly branch 卯 the animal.

In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 1975 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 Tuesday, February 4, 1975 at 5:59 a.m. Eastern Time. That is 7 days before Chinese New Year, so anyone born between that moment and February 10 still has the Wood Tiger sign in the lunar calendar but already the Wood Rabbit sign in Ba Zi.

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

The Rabbit is the sign of gentleness and finesse. It has good taste, tact and a gift for smoothing over disputes, so it feels best wherever there is harmony.

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, 1974 (yang) and 1975 (yin), and comes back every ten years: before that in 1964–1965, next in 1984–1985.

Wood is the Rabbit's fixed element, so the Wood Rabbit has its gentleness in the purest form. It is generous, tolerant and plays the peacemaker in any group. It has an artist's soul and good taste. What it finds hardest is standing its ground: to keep the peace, it will give in even when it is right.

In 2026, people born in 1975 turn 51 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as a year with no special tie for the Rabbit. People born in 1975 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2035, when they turn 60 years old.

The Rabbit comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 1975, the Wood Rabbit, returns every 60 years: in 1915, 1975 and 2035.