Year of the Goat: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Goat
Kind, artistic and peace-loving, the Goat makes every group gentler. Its challenge is defending its own needs as sweetly as everyone else's.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Goat (also called the Sheep or Ram) are 2003, 2015 and 2027; the next starts in 2039. The usual caveat applies: the Chinese year opens at the Lunar New Year, between late January and late February, so an early-year birth may still fall under the previous sign, the Horse.
The Goat is the artist of the cycle: kind, creative and peace-loving, making every group it joins a little gentler. Its challenge is defending its own needs as sweetly as it defends everyone else's. The element of the year decides whether that gentleness is rooted in Earth or carried by Water.
The calculator behind this page resolves any birth date into a full sign — animal, element and yin or yang — using exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043. It runs in your browser from a built-in table; nothing is sent anywhere.
Example. 2000-02-05 is a yang Metal Dragon, while 2000-02-04 is still a yin Earth Rabbit.
Limit. Exact Lunar New Year dates are tabulated only from 1924 through 2043; years outside that range fall back to the calendar year.