One cell of 144
Capricorn + Year of the Monkey
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Capricorn meets the Year of the Monkey, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Capricorn born in the Year of the Monkey?
A Capricorn born in the Year of the Monkey is the Snowy Owl. The month and day set the Capricorn half, the birth year sets the Monkey half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Snowy Owl 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 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 Capricorn and the Monkey make together
Capricorn brings the long climb taken stone by stone. The Monkey year brings the trick of climbing out of the box. Put both in one creature and you get the Snowy Owl.
You hold one still watch through hours of nothing, and you can relocate your whole life the moment it stops giving you anything, without much warning.
The Monkey runs in a trine with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Capricorn season, those years give the Marbled Polecat and the Bearded Vulture, 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 Snowy Owl the same as being a Capricorn?
Capricorn is half of it. The Snowy Owl is the specific crossing of Capricorn 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 Snowy Owl's trine?
The Monkey runs with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Capricorn dates, those years give the Marbled Polecat and the Bearded Vulture, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Snowy Owl's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.