One cell of 144
Aries + Year of the Pig
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Aries meets the Year of the Pig, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is an Aries born in the Year of the Pig?
An Aries born in the Year of the Pig is the Honey Badger. The month and day set the Aries half, the birth year sets the Pig half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Honey Badger 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 Pig half
The Pig closes the cycle and shares its trine with the Rabbit and the Goat, the gentle diplomats. You give generously and mean it, which is rarer than it sounds. Recent Pig years are 1995, 2007 and 2019. Read the Year of the Pig.
The crossing
What Aries and the Pig make together
Aries brings the nerve to move first. The Pig year brings a generosity that means it. One animal holds both, and its name is the Honey Badger.
You turn to face whatever just grabbed you, whole-hearted and already twisting free, and the size of the thing was never actually the point.
The Pig runs in a trine with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Aries season, those years give the Springbok and the Wallcreeper, 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 Honey Badger the same as being an Aries?
Aries is half of it. The Honey Badger is the specific crossing of Aries with the Year of the Pig, 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 Pig 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 Honey Badger's trine?
The Pig runs with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Aries dates, those years give the Springbok and the Wallcreeper, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Honey Badger's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.