See your Western zodiac sign and Chinese zodiac animal together, with traits and compatible signs for each.
Presented as popular tradition and entertainment, not fact — astrology isn't scientifically validated.
(year − 4) mod 12 on the Gregorian year you enter, with the element from the year’s last digit. For entertainment; it does not compute planetary positions.
Your Western sun sign is determined by a simple month/day range lookup — Aries starts 21 March, and so on through the year — using the standard tropical zodiac dates rather than an astronomical calculation of where the sun actually sits against the constellations.
The Chinese zodiac animal is calculated as (year − 4) mod 12 applied to the Gregorian calendar year you enter, mapping the remainder to one of the twelve zodiac animals, with the associated element derived from the last digit of that same year.
Both calculations are simple, well-defined lookups based on date rules used in Western and Chinese folk astrology — provided for entertainment. Neither one computes an actual natal chart or real planetary positions at your birth time, which is a substantially more complex calculation that genuine astrology relies on.
No — this calculates your Western sun sign (a simple date-range lookup) and Chinese zodiac animal (a year-based calculation), both for entertainment. A genuine natal chart requires your exact birth time and location to compute actual planetary positions, which this tool doesn't do.
By checking your birth date against the standard tropical zodiac date ranges (for example, Aries runs from around 21 March to 19 April) — a straightforward date lookup, not an astronomical calculation.
Using (year - 4) mod 12 on the Gregorian calendar year of your birth, which maps to one of the twelve zodiac animals in their traditional cycle order, with the associated element taken from the year's last digit.
This calculator uses the Gregorian calendar year you enter directly. Since the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year (typically late January to mid-February), someone born in early January technically belongs to the previous year's zodiac animal under the traditional lunar calendar — worth keeping in mind if your birthday falls in that window.