One cell of 144
Capricorn + Year of the Dragon
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Capricorn meets the Year of the Dragon, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Capricorn born in the Year of the Dragon?
A Capricorn born in the Year of the Dragon is the Bearded Vulture. The month and day set the Capricorn half, the birth year sets the Dragon half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Bearded Vulture for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Capricorn half
Capricorn holds December 22 to January 19, cardinal Earth under Saturn. You climb on schedule. The winter sign builds for a future it fully expects to stand in, stone by patient stone. Read Capricorn in the Western wing.
The Dragon half
The Dragon is the fifth branch and runs with the Rat and the Monkey, the quick and inventive third of the wheel. You carry more scale than the room expects. Recent Dragon years are 2000, 2012 and 2024. Read the Year of the Dragon.
The crossing
What Capricorn and the Dragon make together
Capricorn brings the long climb taken stone by stone. The Dragon year brings a wingspan the room did not plan for. Put both in one creature and you get the Bearded Vulture.
You take what everyone else abandoned and make something magnificent of it, bones and all.
The Dragon runs in a trine with the Rat and the Monkey. Held to the same Capricorn season, those years give the Marbled Polecat and the Snowy Owl, 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 Bearded Vulture the same as being a Capricorn?
Capricorn is half of it. The Bearded Vulture is the specific crossing of Capricorn with the Year of the Dragon, 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 Dragon 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 Bearded Vulture's trine?
The Dragon runs with the Rat and the Monkey. Held to the same Capricorn dates, those years give the Marbled Polecat and the Snowy Owl, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Bearded Vulture's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.