One cell of 144
Gemini + Year of the Rat
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Gemini meets the Year of the Rat, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Gemini born in the Year of the Rat?
A Gemini born in the Year of the Rat is the Meerkat. The month and day set the Gemini half, the birth year sets the Rat half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Meerkat 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 Rat half
The Rat opens the twelve-year cycle and runs in a trine with the Dragon and the Monkey, the quick and inventive third of the wheel. You find the way in that nobody posted. Recent Rat years are 1996, 2008 and 2020. Read the Year of the Rat.
The crossing
What Gemini and the Rat make together
Gemini brings the ear for every signal in the room. The Rat year brings the wit that finds the unposted door. The Meerkat carries both at once.
You take the watch so the others can eat, and letting someone take it for you is the lesson that keeps returning.
The Rat runs in a trine with the Dragon and the Monkey. Held to the same Gemini season, those years give the Superb Lyrebird 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 Meerkat the same as being a Gemini?
Gemini is half of it. The Meerkat is the specific crossing of Gemini with the Year of the Rat, 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 Rat 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 Meerkat's trine?
The Rat runs with the Dragon and the Monkey. Held to the same Gemini dates, those years give the Superb Lyrebird and the Kea, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Meerkat's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.