One cell of 144
Virgo + Year of the Pig
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Virgo meets the Year of the Pig, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Virgo born in the Year of the Pig?
A Virgo born in the Year of the Pig is the Star-nosed Mole. The month and day set the Virgo half, the birth year sets the Pig half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Star-nosed Mole 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 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 Virgo and the Pig make together
Virgo brings the eye that finds the flaw and the fix. The Pig year brings a generosity that means it. The Star-nosed Mole is what the two look like sharing one body.
You decide what someone is within a single breath, and you are almost always right, which is exactly why the rare wrong read costs you the most.
The Pig runs in a trine with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Virgo season, those years give the Penduline Tit and the Clark's Nutcracker, 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 Star-nosed Mole the same as being a Virgo?
Virgo is half of it. The Star-nosed Mole is the specific crossing of Virgo 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 Star-nosed Mole's trine?
The Pig runs with the Rabbit and the Goat. Held to the same Virgo dates, those years give the Penduline Tit and the Clark's Nutcracker, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Star-nosed Mole's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.