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Year of the Rooster 1969
The Earth Rooster, 己酉: from Chinese New Year on 17 February 1969 to 5 February 1970.
Observant, honest and hard-working. The Rooster announces the dawn: it is the sign of punctuality and of saying what it sees. Earth years favour steadiness: consolidating, caring for what is already there, the harvest of earlier work.
The Earth Rooster
Element
Earth years are associated with steadiness and care: harvest, soil, the centre. In the sixty-year cycle each animal meets each element once, so the Earth Rooster came last in 1909 and returns in 2029. The year's 纳音 (the "sound" of its stem and branch in the old almanacs) is 大驿土.
Company
The Rooster shares a trine with the Ox and the Snake; its secret friend is the Dragon. Those signs are said to find a Rooster year easiest. A rooster crowing at the right hour was once how a village knew the day had begun.
Years of the Rooster
Each starts at Chinese New Year.
- 1933Water Rooster, from 26 January 1933
- 1945Wood Rooster, from 13 February 1945
- 1957Fire Rooster, from 31 January 1957
- 1969Earth Rooster, from 17 February 1969
- 1981Metal Rooster, from 5 February 1981
- 1993Water Rooster, from 23 January 1993
- 2005Wood Rooster, from 9 February 2005
- 2017Fire Rooster, from 28 January 2017
- 2029Earth Rooster, from 13 February 2029
- 2041Metal Rooster, from 1 February 2041
Questions
When does the Year of the Rooster 1969 start and end?
It starts at Chinese New Year, 17 February 1969, and ends on 5 February 1970, the day before the next new year.
What element is the Rooster in 1969?
Earth (土), from the heavenly stem 己. Earth years are associated with steadiness and care: harvest, soil, the centre.
Is a baby born in January 1969 a Rooster?
No. A baby born before 17 February 1969 belongs to the previous animal, the Monkey. The zodiac year follows the lunar calendar, not 1 January.
Which other years were Earth Rooster years?
2029. The same stem and branch return every sixty years.
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