Chinese zodiac
12 animals, 5 elements — your year, real traits, and a live compatibility calculator.
Your hour animal
Traditional Chinese astrology also splits the day into 12 two-hour blocks (Shichen), each ruled by its own animal — separate from, and independent of, your year animal.
This only works if you know your exact birth time — right at a block boundary (like exactly 11pm), the wrong minute gives the wrong animal. If you're not sure, skip it.
From your real birth year, mapped against the 12-year animal cycle — including the correct handling of years where the Lunar New Year cutoff falls in January or February.
Each pairing reading is generated for the two specific animals you pick, covering the traditional harmony and clash triads, not a single generic blurb reused for every combination.
A separate, traditional system that splits the day into 12 two-hour blocks, each ruled by one of the same 12 animals — derived from your birth time, not your birth year. It's independent of your year animal.
Yes. Right at a block boundary — for example exactly 11pm — a minute either way changes the animal. If you don't know your exact birth time, this calculation can't be done honestly, so we don't guess.