One cell of 144
Cancer + Year of the Monkey
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Cancer meets the Year of the Monkey, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Cancer born in the Year of the Monkey?
A Cancer born in the Year of the Monkey is the Spotted Cuscus. The month and day set the Cancer half, the birth year sets the Monkey half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Spotted Cuscus for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Cancer half
Cancer holds June 21 to July 22, cardinal Water under the Moon. You feel the room before you enter it. The sign opens summer by protecting something, which is what your tenderness has been doing all along. Read Cancer 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 Cancer and the Monkey make together
Cancer brings a guarded, tidal tenderness. The Monkey year brings the trick of climbing out of the box. One animal holds both, and its name is the Spotted Cuscus.
You move so slow through a room that nobody notices how completely you have already sized it up.
The Monkey runs in a trine with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Cancer season, those years give the Coconut Crab and the Humpback Whale, 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 Spotted Cuscus the same as being a Cancer?
Cancer is half of it. The Spotted Cuscus is the specific crossing of Cancer 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 Spotted Cuscus's trine?
The Monkey runs with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Cancer dates, those years give the Coconut Crab and the Humpback Whale, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Spotted Cuscus's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.