One cell of 144
Virgo + Year of the Dog
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Virgo meets the Year of the Dog, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Virgo born in the Year of the Dog?
A Virgo born in the Year of the Dog is the Cleaner Wrasse. The month and day set the Virgo half, the birth year sets the Dog half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Cleaner Wrasse for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Virgo half
Virgo holds August 23 to September 22, mutable Earth under Mercury. You see the flaw and the fix in the same glance. Care, in your hands, looks like maintenance done before anyone asked. Read Virgo in the Western wing.
The Dog half
The Dog is the eleventh branch and runs with the Tiger and the Horse, the openhearted movers. You guard what you love with your whole schedule. Recent Dog years are 1994, 2006 and 2018. Read the Year of the Dog.
The crossing
What Virgo and the Dog make together
Virgo brings the eye that finds the flaw and the fix. The Dog year brings the watch that never quite goes off duty. One animal holds both, and its name is the Cleaner Wrasse.
You keep an honest count of what you give and what comes back, and you would rather stay precise at real cost than cheat once and manage what it costs your name.
The Dog runs in a trine with the Tiger and the Horse. Held to the same Virgo season, those years give the Dragonfly and the Avocet, 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 Cleaner Wrasse the same as being a Virgo?
Virgo is half of it. The Cleaner Wrasse is the specific crossing of Virgo with the Year of the Dog, 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 Dog 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 Cleaner Wrasse's trine?
The Dog runs with the Tiger and the Horse. Held to the same Virgo dates, those years give the Dragonfly and the Avocet, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Cleaner Wrasse's.
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Neighboring crossings
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