One cell of 144
Capricorn + Year of the Pig
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Capricorn meets the Year of the Pig, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Capricorn born in the Year of the Pig?
A Capricorn born in the Year of the Pig is the Giant Armadillo. The month and day set the Capricorn half, the birth year sets the Pig half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Giant Armadillo 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 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 Capricorn and the Pig make together
Capricorn brings the long climb taken stone by stone. The Pig year brings a generosity that means it. The Giant Armadillo is what the two look like sharing one body.
You dig a new shelter every other day and leave it standing for whoever needs it next, and you have not built one yet that you kept for yourself.
The Pig runs in a trine with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Capricorn season, those years give the Mountain Pygmy Possum and the Hercules Beetle, 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 Giant Armadillo the same as being a Capricorn?
Capricorn is half of it. The Giant Armadillo is the specific crossing of Capricorn 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 Giant Armadillo's trine?
The Pig runs with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Capricorn dates, those years give the Mountain Pygmy Possum and the Hercules Beetle, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Giant Armadillo's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.