One cell of 144
Taurus + Year of the Pig
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Taurus meets the Year of the Pig, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Taurus born in the Year of the Pig?
A Taurus born in the Year of the Pig is the Bongo. The month and day set the Taurus half, the birth year sets the Pig half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Bongo 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 Pig half
The Pig closes the cycle and shares its trine with the Rabbit and the Goat, the gentle diplomats. You give generously and mean it, which is rarer than it sounds. Recent Pig years are 1995, 2007 and 2019. Read the Year of the Pig.
The crossing
What Taurus and the Pig make together
Taurus brings the weight that keeps a thing standing. The Pig year brings a generosity that means it. The Bongo is what the two look like sharing one body.
You let one person keep the map to where you disappear to, and that is the whole difference between hiding and being safe.
The Pig runs in a trine with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Taurus season, those years give the Koala and the Snow Petrel, 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 Bongo the same as being a Taurus?
Taurus is half of it. The Bongo is the specific crossing of Taurus with the Year of the Pig, 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 Pig 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 Bongo's trine?
The Pig runs with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Taurus dates, those years give the Koala and the Snow Petrel, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Bongo's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.