1995 Chinese zodiac sign: Wood Pig

Chinese year 1995 begins on Tuesday, January 31, 1995, and ends on Sunday, February 18, 1996, the day before the Year of the Fire Rat begins. It has a full 384 days, because it is a leap year with 13 lunar months; the next one comes in 1998. 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 Monday, January 30, 1995 at 5:48 p.m. ET. In Beijing it is already January 31, 6:48 a.m. China Standard Time, and the Beijing date sets New Year's Day, so the new year begins on January 31.

The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Tuesday, February 14, 1995. The year's first full moon falls on Wednesday, February 15, 1995 at 7:15 a.m. ET.

It is year 12 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1984 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 乙亥 (yǐhài): the heavenly stem 乙 gives the element and the earthly branch 亥 the animal.

In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 1995 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, 1995 at 2:13 a.m. Eastern Time. That is 4 days after Chinese New Year, so anyone born between January 31 and that moment already has the Wood Pig sign in the lunar calendar but still the Wood Dog sign in Ba Zi.

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

The Pig, called the Boar in some sources, closes the twelve-year cycle. It is the sign of kindness, sincerity and joy in life.

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, 1994 (yang) and 1995 (yin), and comes back every ten years: before that in 1984–1985, next in 2004–2005.

The Wood Pig is the life of the party. Wood adds optimism and generosity, so it gets involved in other people's affairs and always finds time to help. It is warmhearted and well liked. It can be naive, though, and takes on other people's problems more often than it should.

In 2026, people born in 1995 turn 31 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as a year with no special tie for the Pig. People born in 1995 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2031, when they turn 36 years old.

The Pig comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 1995, the Wood Pig, returns every 60 years: in 1935, 1995 and 2055.