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Year of the Goat
wèi · 8 of 12 · the hours of 13:00 – 15:00
Makes things, and would rather not be in charge of anything.
Years of the goat
1931 · 1943 · 1955 · 1967 · 1979 · 1991 · 2003 · 2015 · 2027
Each one begins at that year's new year, not on 1 January — so a January birthday in one of these years belongs to the animal before.
The goat is the maker of the twelve — artistic, tender-hearted, and happiest in a settled group rather than at the head of one. The tradition credits it with taste and genuine kindness.
Its difficulty is leaning: the goat tends to attach itself to someone steadier and let them steer, which is comfortable until the steadier person is wrong. Whether this is the goat or the sheep depends on which country's telling you have — the branch is the same.
In Japan the same branch is read hitsuji — Japan reads this branch as the sheep. The twelve are the eto there, and they still name the hours, the directions and the years.
Which animal you actually are depends on the day you were born rather than the year on the certificate — work it out exactly, free, from the real lunisolar boundary.