One cell of 144
Taurus + Year of the Goat
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Taurus meets the Year of the Goat, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Taurus born in the Year of the Goat?
A Taurus born in the Year of the Goat is the Snow Petrel. The month and day set the Taurus half, the birth year sets the Goat half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Snow Petrel for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Taurus half
Taurus holds April 20 to May 20, fixed Earth under Venus. You build slowly and keep what you build. Once you have decided a thing is good, the argument is over, whether or not anyone else has noticed. Read Taurus in the Western wing.
The Goat half
The Goat is the eighth branch and shares its trine with the Rabbit and the Pig, the gentle diplomats. You make soft things that turn out to be structural. Recent Goat years are 1991, 2003 and 2015. Read the Year of the Goat.
The crossing
What Taurus and the Goat make together
Taurus brings the weight that keeps a thing standing. The Goat year brings the soft touch that turns out structural. The Snow Petrel is what the two look like sharing one body.
You have returned to the same ledge for years, and the one time you finally spit fire, everyone understood exactly how much you had been holding.
The Goat runs in a trine with the Rabbit and the Pig. Held to the same Taurus season, those years give the Koala and the Bongo, 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 Snow Petrel the same as being a Taurus?
Taurus is half of it. The Snow Petrel is the specific crossing of Taurus with the Year of the Goat, 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 Goat 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 Snow Petrel's trine?
The Goat runs with the Rabbit and the Pig. Held to the same Taurus dates, those years give the Koala and the Bongo, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Snow Petrel's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.