One cell of 144
Sagittarius + Year of the Rat
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Sagittarius meets the Year of the Rat, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Sagittarius born in the Year of the Rat?
A Sagittarius born in the Year of the Rat is the Sandgrouse. The month and day set the Sagittarius half, the birth year sets the Rat half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Sandgrouse for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Sagittarius half
Sagittarius runs from November 22 to December 21, mutable Fire under Jupiter. You aim past the visible horizon. The far thing pulls you harder than the near thing, every single time. Read Sagittarius in the Western wing.
The Rat half
The Rat opens the twelve-year cycle and runs in a trine with the Dragon and the Monkey, the quick and inventive third of the wheel. You find the way in that nobody posted. Recent Rat years are 1996, 2008 and 2020. Read the Year of the Rat.
The crossing
What Sagittarius and the Rat make together
Sagittarius brings the pull of the far horizon. The Rat year brings the wit that finds the unposted door. The Sandgrouse is what the two look like sharing one body.
You range further than anyone can track and still land exactly on time with the thing they were waiting for.
The Rat runs in a trine with the Dragon and the Monkey. Held to the same Sagittarius season, those years give the Frigatebird and the Coati, 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 Sandgrouse the same as being a Sagittarius?
Sagittarius is half of it. The Sandgrouse is the specific crossing of Sagittarius with the Year of the Rat, 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 Rat 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 Sandgrouse's trine?
The Rat runs with the Dragon and the Monkey. Held to the same Sagittarius dates, those years give the Frigatebird and the Coati, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Sandgrouse's.
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Neighboring crossings
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