One cell of 144
Aries + Year of the Monkey
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Aries meets the Year of the Monkey, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is an Aries born in the Year of the Monkey?
An Aries born in the Year of the Monkey is the Kookaburra. The month and day set the Aries half, the birth year sets the Monkey half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Kookaburra 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 Monkey half
The Monkey is the ninth branch and runs with the Rat and the Dragon, the quick and inventive third of the wheel. You solve the box by climbing out of it. Recent Monkey years are 1992, 2004 and 2016. Read the Year of the Monkey.
The crossing
What Aries and the Monkey make together
Aries brings the nerve to move first. The Monkey year brings the trick of climbing out of the box. The Kookaburra is what the two look like sharing one body.
Your laugh claims the morning before the light does, and the quiet after it is where your real say gets heard.
The Monkey runs in a trine with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Aries season, those years give the Fossa and the Secretary Bird, 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 Kookaburra the same as being an Aries?
Aries is half of it. The Kookaburra is the specific crossing of Aries with the Year of the Monkey, 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 Monkey 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 Kookaburra's trine?
The Monkey runs with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Aries dates, those years give the Fossa and the Secretary Bird, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Kookaburra's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.