One cell of 144
Scorpio + Year of the Rat
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Scorpio meets the Year of the Rat, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Scorpio born in the Year of the Rat?
A Scorpio born in the Year of the Rat is the Tarsier. The month and day set the Scorpio half, the birth year sets the Rat half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Tarsier for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Scorpio half
Scorpio holds October 23 to November 21, fixed Water under Mars. You read what sits under the surface. Whatever you decide to keep, you keep completely, and the door closes without a sound. Read Scorpio 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 Scorpio and the Rat make together
Scorpio brings a depth that keeps its own counsel. The Rat year brings the wit that finds the unposted door. One animal holds both, and its name is the Tarsier.
You take in the whole room by turning your head, not your eyes, and you never leap until the read is finished.
The Rat runs in a trine with the Dragon and the Monkey. Held to the same Scorpio season, those years give the Gila Monster and the Elephantnose Fish, 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 Tarsier the same as being a Scorpio?
Scorpio is half of it. The Tarsier is the specific crossing of Scorpio 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 Tarsier's trine?
The Rat runs with the Dragon and the Monkey. Held to the same Scorpio dates, those years give the Gila Monster and the Elephantnose Fish, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Tarsier's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.