Goat Chinese Zodiac Personality & Element

The next Year of the Goat will be 2027. For this purpose, let us recall the other Years of the Goat: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027…

The Goat is the eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac. According to Chinese astrology, each year is associated with the sign of an animal and the cycle lasts 12 years.

You will find various information on this page concerning:

Calendar of the Years of the Goat and Calculate your Chinese sign

Are you a goat?

If you were born in the years 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003 or 2015, you could be a Goat, but not necessarily. Indeed, the year of the zodiac normally begins at the time of the Chinese New Year (between the end of January and mid-February). Also, if you were born in January or February of any of the years mentioned above, you could be a goat or a horse.

Let’s take the year 2003 as an example:

In 2003, the year of the goat begins on February 1. People born after this date will belong to the sign of the goat. On the other hand, if they were born before this date, they will be of the previous sign, namely, a horse.

Years of the Goat calendar

Personality: calm, gentle…

People born in the year of the Goat are generally tender , gentle, shy, stable, sympathetic, friendly and are endowed with a strong sense of kindness and justice.

They have delicate thoughts , strong creativity, perseverance, and also acquired professional skills. Although they appear tender on the outside, they are tough on the inside, always insisting on their own opinions in their minds. They have strong internal resistance and excellent defensive instincts.

Although they prefer to be in groups , they don’t want to be the center of attention. They are reserved and quiet, probably because they often like to get lost in their own thoughts. People of this sign like to spend money on fashionable things that make them look like wealthy people. Although they like to spend money on the finer things in life, they are not snobbish.

– Professional careers

People born under the sign of the Goat prefer to work in a team. Horses are their best working partners. They place little importance on status and power. Unless asked, they will not volunteer for anything on their own and act as leaders. Here is a list of the most suitable professional careers for people with the Goat sign: pediatrician, actor, nursery staff, interior designer, florist, hairdresser, musician, editor, illustrator and art history teacher.

– Relationships

In general, the “Goats” are reserved people. So, it can take time and a lot of effort to get to know them. These people rarely share information about their private life. It is for this reason that most of them have few close friends. Once they have friends, their friendship is peaceful and fulfilling. They work hard for the people they love.

– Health

People born in the year of the Goat are very serene and calm. As a result, they tend to have fewer health problems .

If they are mentally and emotionally stable, it will have a positive impact on their physical health. An effective way to stay healthy for them is to eat fresh, organic produce and eliminate red meat from their food intake if possible.

They must go out into nature and communicate with the great outdoors. Fresh air, trees and sunshine will bring them a lot of good for their health. They should have a regular feeding schedule and have consistent sleeping and waking hours.

Lucky Charms

What brings luck to people born under the sign of the Goat:

• Numbers  : 2.7 and the digits that include them (example: 27 and 72)
• Days : the 7th ^and 30th ^days of the months of the Chinese lunar calendar
• Colors  : brown, red and purple
• Flowers : carnations and primroses
• The cardinal points : north

What they should avoid:

• Colors : blue and black. These people should avoid wearing clothes of these colors.
• Numbers : 4 and 9
• The cardinal points  : southwest
• The months  : the 3rd ^, 6th ^and 10th ^months of the Chinese lunar calendar. During these months, avoid doing important business at work or organizing an event.

Love compatibility

The love compatibility between the animals of the Chinese zodiac takes into account the particularities of each of the animals. Those whose characteristics match well together may have good compatibility.

However, those who are not compatible need to work harder in their relationships.

Find below the Goats compatibility chart with the other zodiac signs, and find out if the Goat is compatible with your sign or not.

• Best compatibility  : with a Rabbit, a Horse and a Pig
• Worse compatibility  : with an Ox, a Dragon, a Snake and a Dog

Year of the Goat, good year to give birth?

A famous Chinese saying goes: “Only one in ten people born in the year of the Goat finds happiness” (十羊九不全), which means that the majority of people born in the year of the Goat are destined to miss their marriage, have no happy family and have bad luck. Most people in China believe that children born in the Year of the Goat will be not leaders but followers.

Thus, many Chinese couples decide to avoid having children during the year of the Goat. Previously, many of them desperately raced against time to try to give birth in 2014, the Year of the Horse. The year of the Horse is considered much more lucky than the year of the Goat.

Although it’s an old superstition, and it seems a bit silly, it still has an impact on Chinese society.

The year of the Sheep, the Goat or the Aries?

The Chinese are not sure about the answer to this question. In Chinese, the word 羊 (yáng) is a generic term, and can refer to a sheep (绵羊), a goat (山羊), a ram or goat (公羊), an antelope (羚羊), etc. There is therefore a lack of definition regarding the zodiac of the Goat in Chinese history.

However, most Chinese people and folklore experts believe that the Chinese zodiac animal is the goat, not the sheep. They have evidence to support their idea.

First of all, the Chinese zodiac is an invention of the Han people and they raised a lot of goats, not sheep. Thus, the zodiac animal refers more to the goat.

Then, instead of the image of the sheep, it is the image of the goat that often appears on Chinese zodiac stamps, paper-cuts and New Year paintings.

Finally, the goat was one of the 12 Chinese zodiac bronze statues located in the Old Summer Palace. Although the head has been lost, according to historical records, its current reproduction is the image of a goat.

Goats of wood, fire, earth, gold and water

In Chinese element theory, each sign of the zodiac is associated with one of the five elements: gold (metal), wood, water, fire and earth. For example, a wood goat is born once every 60 years.

One theory states that a person’s character traits are determined by their zodiac sign and element. There are therefore five types of goats, each with its own particularities:

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