One cell of 144
Leo + Year of the Tiger
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Leo meets the Year of the Tiger, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Leo born in the Year of the Tiger?
A Leo born in the Year of the Tiger is the Harpy Eagle. The month and day set the Leo half, the birth year sets the Tiger half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Harpy Eagle 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 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 Leo and the Tiger make together
Leo brings a heat that holds the center of the room. The Tiger year brings the conviction that moves before the vote. The Harpy Eagle carries both at once.
You thread impossible spaces at full speed and honestly consider it commuting.
The Tiger runs in a trine with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Leo season, those years give the Paradise Riflebird and the Sunbittern, 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 Harpy Eagle the same as being a Leo?
Leo is half of it. The Harpy Eagle is the specific crossing of Leo 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 Harpy Eagle's trine?
The Tiger runs with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Leo dates, those years give the Paradise Riflebird and the Sunbittern, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Harpy Eagle's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.