One cell of 144
Taurus + Year of the Horse
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Taurus meets the Year of the Horse, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Taurus born in the Year of the Horse?
A Taurus born in the Year of the Horse is the Moose. The month and day set the Taurus half, the birth year sets the Horse half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Moose 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 Horse half
The Horse is the seventh branch and runs with the Tiger and the Dog, the openhearted movers. You need forward motion the way other signs need shelter. Recent Horse years are 2002, 2014 and 2026. Read the Year of the Horse.
The crossing
What Taurus and the Horse make together
Taurus brings the weight that keeps a thing standing. The Horse year brings the engine that only rests in motion. One animal holds both, and its name is the Moose.
You carry weight through ground that swallows other travelers, and only hurry makes you clumsy.
The Horse runs in a trine with the Tiger and the Dog. Held to the same Taurus season, those years give the Sable Antelope and the Banded Mongoose, 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 Moose the same as being a Taurus?
Taurus is half of it. The Moose is the specific crossing of Taurus with the Year of the Horse, 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 Horse 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 Moose's trine?
The Horse runs with the Tiger and the Dog. Held to the same Taurus dates, those years give the Sable Antelope and the Banded Mongoose, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Moose's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.