What Chinese Zodiac Is 2029? Year of the Earth Rooster

2029 Lunar New Year: start and end dates

Lunar New Year opened the Earth Rooster year on February 13, 2029, and the year ran to February 2, 2030. So a birth date of Feb 13, 2029 or later counts as Earth Rooster, and so do early 2030 birthdays through Feb 2; births in 2029 before Feb 13 still belong to the Earth Monkey. That moving boundary comes from the lunisolar calendar, in which the new year starts with the second new moon after the winter solstice in most years, so its Gregorian date shifts by up to a month from one year to the next. Look sixty years either side and the pairing repeats: 1969 are Earth Rooster years too. That Tuesday new year arrived with the Sun in Aquarius in the Western zodiac.

What the Earth Rooster is like

A Rooster with patience is the traditional sense of this year. Since Earth generates Metal, readings describe secure, organised people with a gift for long-term planning. Those born now often hold teams together. Genuine leisure, appreciation spoken aloud and openness to other ways of working keep their diligence warm rather than rigid. Their care shows in tidy systems, punctual habits and promises kept without fuss or fanfare.

In classical thought, Earth belongs to the centre and to the late-summer pause between seasons, the point where things ripen and settle. As a year stem, it tends to slow an animal down in a useful way, adding prudence, loyalty and a strong sense of responsibility. People born under an Earth stem are often described as dependable, sensible and protective of the people they love. They value security and tend to build carefully. The caution traditionally attached to Earth is caution itself: overthinking, clinging to the familiar and carrying other people's problems as though they were their own.

2029 in the animal cycle and in numerology

In numerology the digits reduce to 4, the number of structure, effort and foundations, which gives a 4 year a reputation for steady, practical work. The digits of 2029 add up to 13, which reduces to 4. The Rooster holds the tenth place among the twelve animals and its fixed element is Metal. Set beside the year's Earth stem, earth generates Metal, which readings use to describe how settled or stretched the combination feels. The year before was the Earth Monkey and the year after is the Metal Dog.

Chinese almanacs name 2029 Ji-You, pairing the Earth stem Ji with the branch You. Both are Yin, as stem and branch always share a polarity, so of the hundred and twenty possible pairings only sixty ever occur, and each one names a single year in every cycle.