One cell of 144
Gemini + Year of the Dragon
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Gemini meets the Year of the Dragon, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Gemini born in the Year of the Dragon?
A Gemini born in the Year of the Dragon is the Superb Lyrebird. The month and day set the Gemini half, the birth year sets the Dragon half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Superb Lyrebird 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 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 Gemini and the Dragon make together
Gemini brings the ear for every signal in the room. The Dragon year brings a wingspan the room did not plan for. The Superb Lyrebird carries both at once.
You can hand anyone their own voice back perfectly, and the open question you carry is which note is yours.
The Dragon runs in a trine with the Rat and the Monkey. Held to the same Gemini season, those years give the Meerkat and the Kea, 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 Superb Lyrebird the same as being a Gemini?
Gemini is half of it. The Superb Lyrebird is the specific crossing of Gemini 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 Superb Lyrebird's trine?
The Dragon runs with the Rat and the Monkey. Held to the same Gemini dates, those years give the Meerkat and the Kea, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Superb Lyrebird's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.