One cell of 144
Gemini + Year of the Monkey
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Gemini meets the Year of the Monkey, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Gemini born in the Year of the Monkey?
A Gemini born in the Year of the Monkey is the Kea. The month and day set the Gemini half, the birth year sets the Monkey half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Kea 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 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 Gemini and the Monkey make together
Gemini brings the ear for every signal in the room. The Monkey year brings the trick of climbing out of the box. The Kea carries both at once.
You treat the world as a puzzle with removable parts, and the room is either delighted or rebuilding.
The Monkey runs in a trine with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Gemini season, those years give the Meerkat and the Superb Lyrebird, 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 Kea the same as being a Gemini?
Gemini is half of it. The Kea is the specific crossing of Gemini 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 Kea's trine?
The Monkey runs with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Gemini dates, those years give the Meerkat and the Superb Lyrebird, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Kea's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.