2029 in the Chinese Zodiac: the Year of the Yin Earth Rooster
2029 is 己酉, the Yin Earth Rooster. The zodiac year runs from 13 February 2029 to 2 February 2030. This page covers what the year is, who meets Tai Sui in it, and the point where the animal stops being able to tell you anything about your own year.
The short answer
The animal is the Rooster, 酉. The stem is 己, yin earth, which is why the year is often written as the Yin Earth Rooster year.
Chinese New Year 2029 falls on 13 February 2029, and the year closes on 2 February 2030, the day before the Dog year begins.
BaZi uses a different boundary. There the year pillar turns at 立春, Start of Spring, which in 2029 arrives on 3 February 2029, at 21:20 China time. A birthday in the first days of February can fall on either side of that moment, so a chart needs the birth hour to place it rather than the calendar date alone.
Which signs meet Tai Sui in 2029
Tai Sui is the year's own branch. 4 signs stand at an awkward angle to 酉 in 2029, each in a different way, and the classical names for those angles are more specific than the usual translation of "bad year".
Rooster
same sign as the year, punishment
Rabbit
direct clash
Dog
harm
Rat
break
A clash marks a year that asks for more care in how you commit, not a year with a fixed outcome. Attaching to Tai Sui is a rite performed at a temple. We do not arrange it here.
All twelve signs against the Rooster year
Every sign has some relation to 酉, including none at all. Neutral is a real answer here, not a missing one.
| Sign | Tai Sui in 2029 | Harmony with the Rooster |
|---|---|---|
| Rat | break | neutral |
| Ox | no clash | Three Harmony |
| Tiger | no clash | neutral |
| Rabbit | direct clash | neutral |
| Dragon | no clash | Six Harmony |
| Snake | no clash | Three Harmony |
| Horse | no clash | neutral |
| Goat | no clash | neutral |
| Monkey | no clash | neutral |
| Rooster | same sign as the year, punishment | neutral |
| Dog | harm | neutral |
| Pig | no clash | neutral |
The "which sign is lucky in 2029" question
At the branch layer the answer is short. Ox (Three Harmony), Dragon (Six Harmony), Snake (Three Harmony). Those are branch relations that hold for anyone born in those years.
Which is also the honest limit of the question. Your birth year is one of the eight characters in a BaZi chart, and the other six carry most of what makes a year land the way it does. Two people born in the same animal year, one in a summer month and one in a winter month, meet 2029 differently, and no year-of-the-Rooster article can tell them apart.
Read the year on your own chart
Everything above is the branch layer, which is the same for everyone born in a given animal year. The chart we cast is for 2027: it reads your birth date and hour, names the palace 2027 lands in, and marks the months of that year which ask for care. There is no 2029 chart yet.
Other years
FAQ
- What animal is 2029 in the Chinese zodiac?
- 2029 is the year of the Rooster, and in the sixty-year stem-and-branch cycle it is 己酉, the Yin Earth Rooster. The zodiac year runs from 13 February 2029 to 2 February 2030.
- When is Chinese New Year 2029?
- Chinese New Year 2029 falls on 13 February 2029. The following one, which begins the Dog year, falls on 3 February 2030.
- Which signs clash with Tai Sui in 2029?
- In 2029 the signs standing in tension with the year's own branch are the Rooster (same sign as the year, punishment), the Rabbit (direct clash), the Dog (harm) and the Rat (break). Clashing with Tai Sui means your birth-year branch sits at an awkward angle to the year's, not that something bad is fixed to happen. Attaching to Tai Sui is a rite performed at a temple. We do not arrange it here.
- Which Chinese zodiac sign is lucky in 2029?
- At the year-branch layer the harmonious signs are the Ox (Three Harmony), the Dragon (Six Harmony), the Snake (Three Harmony). That is a statement about branch relations, not a forecast: the year branch is one field out of eight in a BaZi chart, and it says nothing about your month, day or hour.
- Does the Chinese year start on Chinese New Year or on 立春?
- Both, for different purposes. By custom the zodiac year turns at Chinese New Year, 13 February 2029. In BaZi the year pillar turns at 立春, Start of Spring, which in 2029 falls on 3 February 2029, at 21:20 China time. A birthday in the first days of February can land on either side of that moment, which is why a chart needs the birth hour to place it.
- What year comes after 2029?
- 2030 is the year of the Dog, 庚戌, beginning 3 February 2030.