What Chinese Zodiac Is 1927? Year of the Fire Rabbit

When the 1927 Fire Rabbit year starts and ends

The 1927 Fire Rabbit year began at Lunar New Year on February 2, 1927 and lasted until January 22, 1928, the day before the next new year. Anyone born between January 1 and Feb 2 1927 therefore belongs to the Fire Tiger year that started in 1926, while someone born in early 1928, up to Jan 22, is still a Fire Rabbit. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, which is why the start date moves between January 21 and February 20 instead of staying on January 1. The same Fire Rabbit combination also falls in 1987, sixty years apart, because five elements and twelve animals realign only once in each sixty-year cycle. Lunar New Year 1927 fell on a Wednesday, while the Western Sun was in Aquarius.

Fire Rabbit personality

In a Fire Rabbit year, the gentle Rabbit acquires sparkle. Its Wood feeds the year's Fire, so tradition describes people born then as warm, expressive and socially gifted, with more ambition and flair than the quieter Rabbits. They are often seen as charming hosts and persuasive friends. The usual caution concerns sensitive nerves: busy seasons need balancing with time to rest and recover.

Fire is the element of summer and full daylight, and a Fire year is traditionally said to turn up the volume of whatever animal it meets. Descriptions link it with passion, charisma, courage and a love of movement and expression. Fire-year people are often portrayed as lively, persuasive and quick to act, able to warm a room and rally others behind an idea. The element is associated with the heart and with joy, which gives it real generosity of spirit. Its traditional shadow is impatience: Fire can burn hot and fast, leading to restlessness, sharp words in the moment and a tendency to lose interest once the excitement fades.

1927 in numerology and the twelve-year cycle

In numerology the year's digits reduce to 1, the number of beginnings, initiative and independence, so numerologists describe a 1 year as one that rewards starting things. The digits of 1927 add up to 19, which reduces to 1. In the twelve-year cycle the Rabbit is the fourth animal, earthly branch Mao, with Wood as its fixed element and Yin polarity. The year element is Fire, and in the five-element cycles wood generates Fire. The year before was the Fire Tiger and the year after is the Earth Dragon.

In the traditional sexagenary count the year is called Ding-Mao: Ding is the Fire heavenly stem and Mao is the Rabbit's earthly branch. Stems and branches alternate between yang and yin together, which is why yin stems only ever meet yin animals.