Year of the Wood Goat
2015 Chinese zodiac sign: Wood Goat
If you were born from February 19, 2015 to February 7, 2016, your Chinese zodiac sign is the Wood Goat. A birthday in 2015 before February 19 still belongs to the Wood Horse of 2014.
Wood Goat
- Element: Wood
- Yin
- First day
- Thursday, February 19, 2015
- Last day
- Sunday, February 7, 2016
- Place in the animal cycle
- 8 of 12
January and February: if you were born from January 1 to February 18, 2015, your sign is still the Wood Horse of 2014; if you were born from January 1 to February 7, 2016, you still belong to the Year of the Wood Goat.
Check your birth date in the calculator2015 in the Chinese calendar
Chinese year 2015 begins on Thursday, February 19, 2015, and ends on Sunday, February 7, 2016, the day before the Year of the Fire Monkey 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 2017.
The year opens with the new moon on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 6:47 p.m. ET. In Beijing it is already February 19, 7:47 a.m. China Standard Time, and the Beijing date sets New Year's Day, so the new year begins on February 19.
The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Thursday, March 5, 2015. The year's first full moon falls on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 1:06 p.m. ET.
It is year 32 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1984 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 乙未 (yǐwèi): the heavenly stem 乙 gives the element and the earthly branch 未 the animal.
Lìchūn 2015: when the year begins in Ba Zi astrology
In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 2015 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 3, 2015 at 10:58 p.m. Eastern Time. That is 16 days before Chinese New Year, so anyone born between that moment and February 18 still has the Wood Horse sign in the lunar calendar but already the Wood Goat sign in Ba Zi.
This page and the calculator give your sign by the lunar calendar.
Goat personality traits
The Goat, also called the Sheep or the Ram because its Chinese name, 羊 (yáng), means both goat and sheep, is the sign of sensitivity and imagination. It is gentle and empathetic, with the soul of an artist.
The element of 2015: Wood
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, 2014 (yang) and 2015 (yin), and comes back every ten years: before that in 2004–2005, next in 2024–2025.
The Wood Goat: animal and element together
The Wood Goat has a big heart. Wood adds kindness, patience and a wish to help, and it also develops the Goat's artistic talent. It likes harmony around it and works hard to keep it. That can make it too trusting, and people who play on its good nature know how to take advantage.
Goat compatibility
Trine
The Rabbit and the Pig share its need for warmth and calm. With the Rabbit the Goat shares an eye for beauty, while the Pig gives it kindness and a sense of security.
Secret friend
The Horse gives the Goat courage and draws it out of the house into the world, and the Goat calms the Horse's restlessness. Tradition sees this pair as very harmonious.
Opposite sign
The Ox is the Goat's opposite. It values duty and discipline, so the Goat's need for freedom looks like a whim to the Ox, while the Ox's sternness hurts the Goat.
Born in 2015: your age and your own sign's year
In 2026, people born in 2015 turn 11 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as a secret friend's year for the Goat. People born in 2015 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2027, when they turn 12 years old.
Other Goat years
The Goat comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 2015, the Wood Goat, returns every 60 years: in 1955, 2015 and 2075.
| Year | Sign | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Metal Goat | 02/17/1931 – 02/05/1932 |
| 1943 | Water Goat | 02/05/1943 – 01/24/1944 |
| 1955 | Wood Goat | 01/24/1955 – 02/11/1956 |
| 1967 | Fire Goat | 02/09/1967 – 01/29/1968 |
| 1979 | Earth Goat | 01/28/1979 – 02/15/1980 |
| 1991 | Metal Goat | 02/15/1991 – 02/03/1992 |
| 2003 | Water Goat | 02/01/2003 – 01/21/2004 |
| 2015 | Wood Goat | 02/19/2015 – 02/07/2016 |
| 2027 | Fire Goat | 02/06/2027 – 01/25/2028 |
The year before and the year after
The Chinese zodiac is a cultural tradition more than two thousand years old, not a science. We calculate the dates and signs precisely, but read the personality descriptions as food for thought, not as a prophecy.
Frequently asked questions
What Chinese zodiac sign is 2015?
In the Chinese calendar 2015 is the Year of the Wood Goat: a yin sign with the Wood element. That Chinese year runs from February 19, 2015 to February 7, 2016, so anyone born in that window has the Wood Goat sign.
What is my Chinese zodiac sign if I was born in January or February 2015?
The date of Chinese New Year decides it, and in 2015 that date is February 19. If you were born from January 1 to February 18, 2015, your sign is still the Wood Horse of 2014; from February 19 on, your sign is the Wood Goat.
When does 2015 begin in Ba Zi astrology?
At the moment of lìchūn, when the Sun reaches 315° of ecliptic longitude: on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 10:58 p.m. Eastern Time. That is 16 days before Chinese New Year, so anyone born between that moment and February 18 still has the Wood Horse sign in the lunar calendar but already the Wood Goat sign in Ba Zi.
When is Chinese New Year 2015?
Chinese New Year 2015 falls on Thursday, February 19, 2015, the day of the new moon by the date in Beijing. The new moon comes at 7:47 a.m. China Standard Time; in New York it falls on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 6:47 p.m. ET. The next New Year, which opens the Year of the Fire Monkey, falls on Monday, February 8, 2016.
Is 2015 a yin or yang year?
2015 is a yin year, because Chinese tradition gives yang to even years and yin to odd ones. Yin is inward energy: receptive, patient and attentive. The Goat is always yin, and from one Goat year to the next only the element changes: after the Year of the Wood Goat comes the Year of the Fire Goat in 2027.
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