What Chinese Zodiac Is 1967? Year of the Fire Goat

When the 1967 Fire Goat year starts and ends

The 1967 Fire Goat year began at Lunar New Year on February 9, 1967 and lasted until January 29, 1968, the day before the next new year. Anyone born between January 1 and Feb 9 1967 therefore belongs to the Fire Horse year that started in 1966, while someone born in early 1968, up to Jan 29, is still a Fire Goat. 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 Goat combination also falls in 2027, sixty years apart, because five elements and twelve animals realign only once in each sixty-year cycle. Lunar New Year 1967 fell on a Thursday, while the Western Sun was in Aquarius.

Fire Goat personality

Creative, passionate and charming, the Fire Goat is more willing than most Goats to take the spotlight. Fire feeds the Goat's Earth, which tradition reads as confidence warming a gentle nature. People born in this year often have wide circles and strong artistic instincts. Mood swings and sensitivity to criticism are the usual watch-points. Parties, studios and stages tend to suit them well.

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.

1967 in numerology and the twelve-year cycle

In numerology the year reduces to 5, the number of change, freedom and movement, and a 5 year is usually described as restless and full of variety. The digits of 1967 add up to 23, which reduces to 5. In the twelve-year cycle the Goat is the eighth animal, earthly branch Wei, with Earth as its fixed element and Yin polarity. The year element is Fire, and in the five-element cycles fire generates Earth. The year before was the Fire Horse and the year after is the Earth Monkey.

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