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Goat Chinese Zodiac Sign: Traits, Love, Compatibility
The Goat is one of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac, earthly branch 未 (wèi), the one of the double hour 13:00-15:00. Kindness and creativity - that is the heart of the character of anyone born in its year.
Goat
The Goat, sometimes called the Sheep, is kindness, softness and a creative soul. You feel finely, you reach for beauty and harmony, and you are caring and peaceable. You need warmth and support, and you wilt in harshness.
In love
In love you are tender, devoted and romantic, and you dissolve into caring for someone. You need a warm, steady partner who shelters you from storms.
In work
You are strong where imagination, taste and heart are needed: art, craft, caring for people. Pressure and hard deadlines dim you.
Strengths and weak spots
The 未 branch: hour, direction and element
In the Chinese cycle this is the eighth of the twelve earthly branches, 未 (wèi). Tied to it are the double hour 13:00-15:00, the direction south-southwest and the fixed element Earth - standing correspondences that do not move with the element of the year. Its season is summer, 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 Wood: Rabbit and Pig. The pair of the six harmonies gives the Horse instead, which is a separate tradition. Straight across, six steps around the circle, stands the Ox: the clash of branches, the most charged link of all.
What to keep in mind
The branch 未 (wèi) 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 2027 the switch falls on February 6: born before that date, you still count as the Horse. Your branch hands out no fate at all.
FAQ
Three questions about the branch 未 (wèi): its years, its affinities and its hour.
Which years are Goat years, counting 2027?
1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027. The wheel brings the branch 未 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 2027 it falls on February 6, and before that date the year still counts as the Horse.
Who does the Goat get on with, Rabbit and Pig or Ox?
The best understanding comes from the trine of affinity, Rabbit and Pig: all three resting on the element Wood. Apart from the trine, the pair of the six harmonies gives the Horse. The biggest snag comes from the opposite branch, six steps further: the Ox. That said, the branch 未 stays a yearly measure, and real understanding reads off two whole charts of the sky.
What hour and what direction belong to the branch 未?
The double hour 13:00-15:00 and the direction south-southwest, 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.
Goat is only the year you were born. The Moon, the ascendant and the planets are waiting in the full chart.
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