One cell of 144
Libra + Year of the Ox
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Libra meets the Year of the Ox, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Libra born in the Year of the Ox?
A Libra born in the Year of the Ox is the Swan. The month and day set the Libra half, the birth year sets the Ox half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Swan 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 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 Libra and the Ox make together
Libra brings the instinct to level the two pans. The Ox year brings the endurance that outlasts every mood. One animal holds both, and its name is the Swan.
You keep the surface so calm that people forget to ask what your legs are doing underneath it, and you like it that way.
The Ox runs in a trine with the Snake and the Rooster. Held to the same Libra season, those years give the Paradise Tanager and the Satin Bowerbird, 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 Swan the same as being a Libra?
Libra is half of it. The Swan is the specific crossing of Libra 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 Swan's trine?
The Ox runs with the Snake and the Rooster. Held to the same Libra dates, those years give the Paradise Tanager and the Satin Bowerbird, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Swan's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
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