One cell of 144
Aries + Year of the Goat
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Aries meets the Year of the Goat, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is an Aries born in the Year of the Goat?
An Aries born in the Year of the Goat is the Wallcreeper. The month and day set the Aries half, the birth year sets the Goat half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Wallcreeper for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Aries half
Aries runs from March 21 to April 19, cardinal Fire under Mars. You start things. The season opens with you, which is why waiting is the one skill the sign never hands you for free. Read Aries in the Western wing.
The Goat half
The Goat is the eighth branch and shares its trine with the Rabbit and the Pig, the gentle diplomats. You make soft things that turn out to be structural. Recent Goat years are 1991, 2003 and 2015. Read the Year of the Goat.
The crossing
What Aries and the Goat make together
Aries brings the nerve to move first. The Goat year brings the soft touch that turns out structural. One animal holds both, and its name is the Wallcreeper.
You take the sheerest wall as your own private ground, and you only flash your true color mid-flight, when it is already too late to look away.
The Goat runs in a trine with the Rabbit and the Pig. Held to the same Aries season, those years give the Springbok and the Honey Badger, the two crossings whose engines run closest to yours.
The boundary
Born near the boundary?
The Chinese year does not turn on January 1. It turns at the lunar New Year, somewhere between late January and mid February, so a birthday in those weeks can belong to the animal before this one. The year finder checks the real date for any year you give it.
Common questions
Questions about this crossing
Is the Wallcreeper the same as being an Aries?
Aries is half of it. The Wallcreeper is the specific crossing of Aries with the Year of the Goat, one cell out of 144. Two people can share a Sun sign and carry different animals, because the birth year changes the second half.
What if I was born in January or February of a Goat year?
The Chinese year turns at the lunar New Year, which lands between late January and mid February. A birthday in those weeks can belong to the previous animal, so the year finder checks the real boundary before the grid names your crossing.
Which crossings share the Wallcreeper's trine?
The Goat runs with the Rabbit and the Pig. Held to the same Aries dates, those years give the Springbok and the Honey Badger, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Wallcreeper's.
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Neighboring crossings
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