Goat Chinese Zodiac

Personality, strengths, compatibility and birth years

The Chinese zodiac assigns each year one of twelve animals on a repeating cycle, set by your birth year rather than your birth date. The animal describes temperament and the company you keep easily — it is a separate system from Western star signs, and the two rarely say the same thing.

Personality

The Goat (or Sheep) is the zodiac's gentle artist — creative, kind, and deeply attuned to beauty. You experience the world through emotion and imagination, creating warmth wherever you go. Your compassion is genuine and boundless.

Strengths

Gentle, creative, compassionate, determined, elegant, calm, resilient

Challenges

Indecisive, timid, pessimistic, disorganized, overly dependent

Best matches

Rabbit, Horse, Pig

Birth years

1943 (from 5 Feb), 1955 (from 24 Jan), 1967 (from 9 Feb), 1979 (from 28 Jan), 1991 (from 15 Feb), 2003 (from 1 Feb), 2015 (from 19 Feb), 2027 (from 6 Feb).

A Chinese year begins at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January, so the dates above are where each year actually starts. Born before that date and you belong to the previous year's animal — Aethera works this out from your full birth date.

Lucky numbers

2, 7

Lucky colours

Brown, red, purple

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The other eleven animals

RatOxTigerRabbitDragonSnakeHorseMonkeyRoosterDogPig