One cell of 144
Libra + Year of the Monkey
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Libra meets the Year of the Monkey, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Libra born in the Year of the Monkey?
A Libra born in the Year of the Monkey is the Kissing Gourami. The month and day set the Libra half, the birth year sets the Monkey half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Kissing Gourami 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 Monkey half
The Monkey is the ninth branch and runs with the Rat and the Dragon, the quick and inventive third of the wheel. You solve the box by climbing out of it. Recent Monkey years are 1992, 2004 and 2016. Read the Year of the Monkey.
The crossing
What Libra and the Monkey make together
Libra brings the instinct to level the two pans. The Monkey year brings the trick of climbing out of the box. The Kissing Gourami carries both at once.
You press right into the tension everyone else avoids, and you can win the whole contest without leaving a single mark.
The Monkey runs in a trine with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Libra season, those years give the Red Panda and the Giant Manta Ray, 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 Kissing Gourami the same as being a Libra?
Libra is half of it. The Kissing Gourami is the specific crossing of Libra with the Year of the Monkey, 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 Monkey 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 Kissing Gourami's trine?
The Monkey runs with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Libra dates, those years give the Red Panda and the Giant Manta Ray, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Kissing Gourami's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.