One cell of 144
Gemini + Year of the Pig
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Gemini meets the Year of the Pig, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Gemini born in the Year of the Pig?
A Gemini born in the Year of the Pig is the Cacomistle. The month and day set the Gemini half, the birth year sets the Pig half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Cacomistle 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 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 Gemini and the Pig make together
Gemini brings the ear for every signal in the room. The Pig year brings a generosity that means it. Put both in one creature and you get the Cacomistle.
You can vanish into your own private range for days and come back like no time passed at all, and you are the only one who ever really knows why.
The Pig runs in a trine with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Gemini season, those years give the Fennec Fox and the Rock Wren, 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 Cacomistle the same as being a Gemini?
Gemini is half of it. The Cacomistle is the specific crossing of Gemini 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 Cacomistle's trine?
The Pig runs with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Gemini dates, those years give the Fennec Fox and the Rock Wren, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Cacomistle's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.