One cell of 144
Pisces + Year of the Monkey
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Pisces meets the Year of the Monkey, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Pisces born in the Year of the Monkey?
A Pisces born in the Year of the Monkey is the Dumbo Octopus. The month and day set the Pisces half, the birth year sets the Monkey half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Dumbo Octopus for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Pisces half
Pisces holds February 19 to March 20, mutable Water under Jupiter. You absorb what the room is feeling. The boundary between you and the water around you is thinner than most people's, and it is where your gift comes in. Read Pisces 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 Pisces and the Monkey make together
Pisces brings a boundary thin enough to feel everything through. The Monkey year brings the trick of climbing out of the box. One animal holds both, and its name is the Dumbo Octopus.
You live gracefully at a depth of feeling that would crush most visitors, and you call it home pressure.
The Monkey runs in a trine with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Pisces season, those years give the Vampire Squid and the Whale Shark, 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 Dumbo Octopus the same as being a Pisces?
Pisces is half of it. The Dumbo Octopus is the specific crossing of Pisces 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 Dumbo Octopus's trine?
The Monkey runs with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Pisces dates, those years give the Vampire Squid and the Whale Shark, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Dumbo Octopus's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
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