One cell of 144
Gemini + Year of the Dog
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Gemini meets the Year of the Dog, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Gemini born in the Year of the Dog?
A Gemini born in the Year of the Dog is the African Grey Parrot. The month and day set the Gemini half, the birth year sets the Dog half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the African Grey Parrot for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Gemini half
Gemini runs from May 21 to June 20, mutable Air under Mercury. You collect signals. Two of everything interests you, and the space between two true things is where you actually live. Read Gemini in the Western wing.
The Dog half
The Dog is the eleventh branch and runs with the Tiger and the Horse, the openhearted movers. You guard what you love with your whole schedule. Recent Dog years are 1994, 2006 and 2018. Read the Year of the Dog.
The crossing
What Gemini and the Dog make together
Gemini brings the ear for every signal in the room. The Dog year brings the watch that never quite goes off duty. The African Grey Parrot is what the two look like sharing one body.
You understand more than you announce and grieve things most people never think to name.
The Dog runs in a trine with the Tiger and the Horse. Held to the same Gemini season, those years give the Bat-eared Fox and the Swift, 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 African Grey Parrot the same as being a Gemini?
Gemini is half of it. The African Grey Parrot is the specific crossing of Gemini with the Year of the Dog, 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 Dog 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 African Grey Parrot's trine?
The Dog runs with the Tiger and the Horse. Held to the same Gemini dates, those years give the Bat-eared Fox and the Swift, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the African Grey Parrot's.
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Neighboring crossings
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