One cell of 144
Gemini + Year of the Tiger
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Gemini meets the Year of the Tiger, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Gemini born in the Year of the Tiger?
A Gemini born in the Year of the Tiger is the Bat-eared Fox. The month and day set the Gemini half, the birth year sets the Tiger half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Bat-eared Fox 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 Tiger half
The Tiger is the third branch and runs with the Horse and the Dog, the openhearted movers. You act on conviction while the room is still voting. Recent Tiger years are 1998, 2010 and 2022. Read the Year of the Tiger.
The crossing
What Gemini and the Tiger make together
Gemini brings the ear for every signal in the room. The Tiger year brings the conviction that moves before the vote. The Bat-eared Fox is what the two look like sharing one body.
You hear the fight coming three rooms early, and you are already deciding what to do about it before anyone else knows there is one.
The Tiger runs in a trine with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Gemini season, those years give the Swift and the African Grey Parrot, 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 Bat-eared Fox the same as being a Gemini?
Gemini is half of it. The Bat-eared Fox is the specific crossing of Gemini with the Year of the Tiger, 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 Tiger 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 Bat-eared Fox's trine?
The Tiger runs with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Gemini dates, those years give the Swift and the African Grey Parrot, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Bat-eared Fox's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.