One cell of 144
Virgo + Year of the Monkey
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Virgo meets the Year of the Monkey, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Virgo born in the Year of the Monkey?
A Virgo born in the Year of the Monkey is the New Caledonian Crow. The month and day set the Virgo half, the birth year sets the Monkey half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the New Caledonian Crow 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 Monkey half
The Monkey is the ninth branch and runs with the Rat and the Dragon, the quick and inventive third of the wheel. You solve the box by climbing out of it. Recent Monkey years are 1992, 2004 and 2016. Read the Year of the Monkey.
The crossing
What Virgo and the Monkey make together
Virgo brings the eye that finds the flaw and the fix. The Monkey year brings the trick of climbing out of the box. Put both in one creature and you get the New Caledonian Crow.
Handed a problem with no tool, you make the tool, and you keep it for the next impossible thing.
The Monkey runs in a trine with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Virgo season, those years give the Leafcutter Ant and the Archerfish, 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 New Caledonian Crow the same as being a Virgo?
Virgo is half of it. The New Caledonian Crow is the specific crossing of Virgo with the Year of the Monkey, 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 Monkey 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 New Caledonian Crow's trine?
The Monkey runs with the Rat and the Dragon. Held to the same Virgo dates, those years give the Leafcutter Ant and the Archerfish, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the New Caledonian Crow's.
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Neighboring crossings
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