THE TWELVE YEAR ANIMALS
Ox
The Ox evokes patient, sustained work.
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牛 · niú
The Ox follows the Rat with an image of cultivation and carrying a task through its ordinary stages. The symbol can frame a question about pace and care without assigning a personality to a birth year.
An example
A long project may benefit from the Ox image of returning to the same useful step each day.
A question to carry with you
Which steady practice supports something you value?
Find your own lunar-year placement
Use your birth date to find the year animal, stem, branch, stem phase and Yin/Yang. This calculator follows Chinese New Year; it does not calculate a full Four Pillars (BaZi) chart.