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Dog Chinese Zodiac Sign: Traits, Love, Compatibility
The Dog is one of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac, earthly branch 戌 (xū), the one of the double hour 19:00-21:00. Loyalty and fairness - that is the heart of the character of anyone born in its year.
Dog
The Dog is loyalty, honesty and a sharp sense of fairness. Reliable and devoted to your own people, you stand up for the truth and for the ones you love. You worry about them, and you have no patience for lies.
In love
In love you are faithful and caring, you give yourself fully and expect the same. You need an honest partner you can trust without looking back.
In work
You do well where honesty, responsibility and service matter: protecting, helping, anything that rests on decency. You work in good conscience.
Strengths and weak spots
The 戌 branch: hour, direction and element
In the Chinese cycle this is the eleventh of the twelve earthly branches, 戌 (xū). Tied to it are the double hour 19:00-21:00, the direction west-northwest and the fixed element Earth - standing correspondences that do not move with the element of the year. Its season is autumn, and in the solar calendar of the four pillars the year starts at the beginning of spring rather than on the first of January.
The links are read off the branch. The trine of affinity gathers on a single element, here Fire: Tiger and Horse. The pair of the six harmonies gives the Rabbit instead, which is a separate tradition. Straight across, six steps around the circle, stands the Dragon: the clash of branches, the most charged link of all.
What to keep in mind
The branch 戌 (xū) is a yearly measure: it is the same for everyone born between two Chinese New Years. The element of the year adds the shading - solidity, practical sense, patience for Earth - while the hour and the city only show on a chart of the sky. For the year 2030 the switch falls on February 3: born before that date, you still count as the Rooster. Your branch hands out no fate at all.
FAQ
Three questions about the branch 戌 (xū): its years, its affinities and its hour.
Which years are Dog years, counting 2030?
1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030. The wheel brings the branch 戌 back every twelve years, while the element of the year turns on ten - so the pairing of animal and element only returns after sixty. If you were born in January or early February, check against the date of Chinese New Year: in 2030 it falls on February 3, and before that date the year still counts as the Rooster.
Who does the Dog get on with, Tiger and Horse or Dragon?
The best understanding comes from the trine of affinity, Tiger and Horse: all three resting on the element Fire. Apart from the trine, the pair of the six harmonies gives the Rabbit. The biggest snag comes from the opposite branch, six steps further: the Dragon. That said, the branch 戌 stays a yearly measure, and real understanding reads off two whole charts of the sky.
What hour and what direction belong to the branch 戌?
The double hour 19:00-21:00 and the direction west-northwest, with the fixed element Earth. Those correspondences belong to the branch itself: they do not move when the element of the year changes, the one that brings solidity, practical sense, patience.
Dog is only the year you were born. The Moon, the ascendant and the planets are waiting in the full chart.
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