One cell of 144
Taurus + Year of the Tiger
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Taurus meets the Year of the Tiger, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Taurus born in the Year of the Tiger?
A Taurus born in the Year of the Tiger is the Sable Antelope. The month and day set the Taurus half, the birth year sets the Tiger half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Sable Antelope 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 Tiger half
The Tiger is the third branch and runs with the Horse and the Dog, the openhearted movers. You act on conviction while the room is still voting. Recent Tiger years are 1998, 2010 and 2022. Read the Year of the Tiger.
The crossing
What Taurus and the Tiger make together
Taurus brings the weight that keeps a thing standing. The Tiger year brings the conviction that moves before the vote. One animal holds both, and its name is the Sable Antelope.
You are calm right up until someone mistakes the calm for permission, and then you kneel and you do not run.
The Tiger runs in a trine with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Taurus season, those years give the Moose 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 Sable Antelope the same as being a Taurus?
Taurus is half of it. The Sable Antelope is the specific crossing of Taurus with the Year of the Tiger, 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 Tiger 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 Sable Antelope's trine?
The Tiger runs with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Taurus dates, those years give the Moose and the Banded Mongoose, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Sable Antelope's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.