One cell of 144
Libra + Year of the Dragon
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Libra meets the Year of the Dragon, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Libra born in the Year of the Dragon?
A Libra born in the Year of the Dragon is the Giant Manta Ray. The month and day set the Libra half, the birth year sets the Dragon half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Giant Manta Ray for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Libra half
Libra runs from September 23 to October 22, cardinal Air under Venus. You weigh both pans before you speak. The balance you hold for other people is labor, and you do it so smoothly they call it charm. Read Libra in the Western wing.
The Dragon half
The Dragon is the fifth branch and runs with the Rat and the Monkey, the quick and inventive third of the wheel. You carry more scale than the room expects. Recent Dragon years are 2000, 2012 and 2024. Read the Year of the Dragon.
The crossing
What Libra and the Dragon make together
Libra brings the instinct to level the two pans. The Dragon year brings a wingspan the room did not plan for. The Giant Manta Ray carries both at once.
You move through open water with a wingspan of attention most rooms cannot hold.
The Dragon runs in a trine with the Rat and the Monkey. Held to the same Libra season, those years give the Red Panda and the Kissing Gourami, 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 Giant Manta Ray the same as being a Libra?
Libra is half of it. The Giant Manta Ray is the specific crossing of Libra with the Year of the Dragon, 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 Dragon 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 Giant Manta Ray's trine?
The Dragon runs with the Rat and the Monkey. Held to the same Libra dates, those years give the Red Panda and the Kissing Gourami, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Giant Manta Ray's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.