One cell of 144
Leo + Year of the Ox
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Leo meets the Year of the Ox, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Leo born in the Year of the Ox?
A Leo born in the Year of the Ox is the Spotted Hyena. The month and day set the Leo half, the birth year sets the Ox half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Spotted Hyena for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Leo half
Leo runs from July 23 to August 22, fixed Fire under the Sun. You warm whatever faces you. The heat stays lit whether or not anyone is clapping, and people quietly plan their winters around it. Read Leo in the Western wing.
The Ox half
The Ox is the second branch and shares its trine with the Snake and the Rooster, the careful builders. You finish what the excitable ones abandon. Recent Ox years are 1997, 2009 and 2021. Read the Year of the Ox.
The crossing
What Leo and the Ox make together
Leo brings a heat that holds the center of the room. The Ox year brings the endurance that outlasts every mood. Put both in one creature and you get the Spotted Hyena.
You were handed a rank before you did anything to deserve it, and you have spent every day since making it true.
The Ox runs in a trine with the Snake and the Rooster. Held to the same Leo season, those years give the Blue-ringed Octopus and the Sunset Moth, 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 Spotted Hyena the same as being a Leo?
Leo is half of it. The Spotted Hyena is the specific crossing of Leo with the Year of the Ox, 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 Ox 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 Spotted Hyena's trine?
The Ox runs with the Snake and the Rooster. Held to the same Leo dates, those years give the Blue-ringed Octopus and the Sunset Moth, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Spotted Hyena's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.