What Chinese Zodiac Is 2035? Year of the Wood Rabbit

2035 Lunar New Year: start and end dates

Lunar New Year opened the Wood Rabbit year on February 8, 2035, and the year ran to January 27, 2036. So a birth date of Feb 8, 2035 or later counts as Wood Rabbit, and so do early 2036 birthdays through Jan 27; births in 2035 before Feb 8 still belong to the Wood Tiger. 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: 1975 are Wood Rabbit years too. That Thursday new year arrived with the Sun in Aquarius in the Western zodiac.

What the Wood Rabbit is like

Double Wood gives this Rabbit year a reputation for grace and warmth. Those born now are pictured as tactful hosts and patient makers, gifted with gardens, crafts and interiors. They give freely. Readings suggest writing down priorities before negotiations and choosing frank but gentle friends, so that kindness comes with a backbone. Their quiet hospitality tends to be remembered long after the evening ends.

In the five-element scheme, Wood belongs to the east and to the green energy of early spring, and that seasonal image shapes how it colours an animal sign. A Wood stem tends to soften sharp edges and add warmth, curiosity and a cooperative instinct. Traditional texts associate it with benevolence, growth and the wish to build something that lasts beyond the self. People born under a Wood stem are often portrayed as principled, open-handed and hopeful about others. The caution usually attached to Wood is a habit of spreading energy thinly, saying yes to every request and feeling quietly hurt when generosity is not returned in kind.

2035 in the animal cycle and in numerology

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 2035 add up to 10, which reduces to 1. The Rabbit holds the fourth place among the twelve animals and its fixed element is Wood. Set beside the year's Wood stem, wood year element matches the fixed element, which readings use to describe how settled or stretched the combination feels. The year before was the Wood Tiger and the year after is the Fire Dragon.

Chinese almanacs name 2035 Yi-Mao, pairing the Wood stem Yi with the branch Mao. 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.