One cell of 144
Capricorn + Year of the Rabbit
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Capricorn meets the Year of the Rabbit, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Capricorn born in the Year of the Rabbit?
A Capricorn born in the Year of the Rabbit is the Mountain Pygmy Possum. The month and day set the Capricorn half, the birth year sets the Rabbit half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Mountain Pygmy Possum 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 Rabbit half
The Rabbit is the fourth branch and shares its trine with the Goat and the Pig, the gentle diplomats. You keep the peace without surrendering the ground. Recent Rabbit years are 1999, 2011 and 2023. Read the Year of the Rabbit.
The crossing
What Capricorn and the Rabbit make together
Capricorn brings the long climb taken stone by stone. The Rabbit year brings the grace that keeps ground without a fight. The Mountain Pygmy Possum is what the two look like sharing one body.
You are stocking the shelter for a hard season nobody else has noticed coming, and you will be the only one still standing when it arrives.
The Rabbit runs in a trine with the Goat and the Pig. Held to the same Capricorn season, those years give the Hercules Beetle and the Giant Armadillo, 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 Mountain Pygmy Possum the same as being a Capricorn?
Capricorn is half of it. The Mountain Pygmy Possum is the specific crossing of Capricorn with the Year of the Rabbit, 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 Rabbit 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 Mountain Pygmy Possum's trine?
The Rabbit runs with the Goat and the Pig. Held to the same Capricorn dates, those years give the Hercules Beetle and the Giant Armadillo, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Mountain Pygmy Possum's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.