One cell of 144
Virgo + Year of the Tiger
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Virgo meets the Year of the Tiger, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Virgo born in the Year of the Tiger?
A Virgo born in the Year of the Tiger is the Dragonfly. The month and day set the Virgo half, the birth year sets the Tiger half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Dragonfly 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 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 Virgo and the Tiger make together
Virgo brings the eye that finds the flaw and the fix. The Tiger year brings the conviction that moves before the vote. One animal holds both, and its name is the Dragonfly.
You see in every direction, strike exactly, and treat landing as a rumor.
The Tiger runs in a trine with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Virgo season, those years give the Avocet and the Cleaner Wrasse, 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 Dragonfly the same as being a Virgo?
Virgo is half of it. The Dragonfly is the specific crossing of Virgo 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 Dragonfly's trine?
The Tiger runs with the Horse and the Dog. Held to the same Virgo dates, those years give the Avocet and the Cleaner Wrasse, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Dragonfly's.
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Neighboring crossings
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