Chinese Zodiac 2027: Year of the Fire Sheep (Goat) 丁未 · Ding Wei

When does the Chinese zodiac 2027 year start?

The Chinese zodiac 2027 year has two start dates, depending on which calendar rule you follow.

• Chinese New Year: Saturday 6 February 2027. This is the first day of the first lunar month, and the date used by zodiac charts, festivals and most people. The Sheep year lasts until Tuesday 25 January 2028. The Monkey year begins on 26 January 2028.
• Li Chun (立春, Start of Spring): 4 February 2027 at 09:46 Beijing time. This is the solar term that starts the year in Bazi, Feng Shui and the Chinese almanac. The Bazi Sheep year lasts until Li Chun 2028, on 4 February 2028 at 15:31.

Anyone born on 4 or 5 February 2027 is therefore a Horse by the Chinese New Year rule but a Sheep in their Bazi chart. Li Chun is a single moment, so its local time depends on where you are:

Year of the Sheep or Year of the Goat in 2027?

Both are right. The Chinese character for the eighth zodiac animal is 羊 (yáng), a word that covers sheep, goats and rams alike. Translators chose differently, so you will see Year of the Sheep, Year of the Goat and sometimes Year of the Ram for the same year. Whichever name you use, the Chinese zodiac 2027 animal is the same 羊. In the last Sheep year, 2015, searches in the United States for “year of the sheep” outnumbered “year of the goat” by about three to two. This page uses Sheep and adds Goat in brackets.

The animal is the earthly branch 未 (Wei). It belongs to the Earth element and to the last month of summer, from early July to early August. It is also the double-hour from 13:00 to 14:59.

What the Fire Sheep year 2027 means

Each Chinese zodiac year pairs an animal with one of the Five Elements through its Heavenly Stem. For Chinese zodiac 2027 the stem is 丁 Ding, Yin Fire. Chinese texts picture it as a candle or lamp: a small, steady flame rather than the blazing sun of 丙 Bing, which ruled 2026.

• Fire over Earth. Fire produces Earth in the Five Elements cycle, so the year's stem feeds its branch. Traditional readings describe a warm, settled year, kinder than the restless Fire Horse year before it.
• Hidden stems. The branch 未 holds 己 Ji Earth, 丁 Ding Fire and 乙 Yi Wood. Fire appears twice in the year pillar, which is why 2027 is read as a Fire-heavy year.
• Na Yin. The pair 丁未 belongs to the Na Yin “Water of the Heavenly River” (天河水), shared with 丙午. It is why some almanacs mention water for a year whose element is Fire.
• The Sheep's character. Folk tradition gives the Sheep gentleness, creativity, care for home and family, and a dislike of open conflict. In a Fire Sheep year these traits are said to come with more warmth and expressiveness.

The last Fire Sheep year was 1967 and the next one will be 2087, because each element–animal pair returns only once every 60 years.

Chinese zodiac 2027 for all 12 signs

In traditional Chinese astrology, how your year goes depends partly on how your birth animal relates to the animal of the year. Here is the Chinese zodiac 2027 outlook for each sign, based on how it meets the Sheep. The birth years shown are approximate, because each year starts at Chinese New Year; use the checker above if you were born in January or February, or find your sign with the Chinese zodiac calculator.

Tai Sui 2027: which signs clash with the Sheep year?

Tai Sui (太岁) is the “Grand Duke” who rules each year of the 60-year cycle. Signs that stand in a tense relation to the year's branch are said to “offend Tai Sui” (犯太岁), and many temples in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong hold Tai Sui prayers around Chinese New Year for them. For Chinese zodiac 2027, the 丁未 year, they are:

• Sheep (Goat): meets its own Tai Sui (值太岁, Ben Ming Nian). Born 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015.
• Ox: direct clash (冲太岁), because 丑 and 未 sit opposite each other on the zodiac wheel. Born 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021.
• Dog: punishment (刑太岁), through the 丑–戌–未 punishment group. Born 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018.
• Rat: harm (害太岁), because 子 and 未 form one of the six harms. Born 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020.

These are traditional associations, not predictions. A full Bazi chart shows how 2027 interacts with all eight characters of your birth, not just your year animal. You can see your chart with the free Bazi calculator.

Every Year of the Sheep, with exact dates

Each Sheep year starts on Chinese New Year, so its dates change every time. If you were born in January or February, check the exact range below; the Chinese zodiac 2027 year is highlighted. All dates are computed from the new moon and the winter solstice in China's time zone, and the times in this section are Beijing time (UTC+8).

2027 in Bazi: the twelve month pillars

In a Bazi chart, the Chinese zodiac 2027 year 丁未 is divided into twelve solar months, each with its own pillar. A year with the stem 丁 always opens with a 壬寅 month. Each month begins at a solar term, and these are the exact start times in Beijing time (UTC+8). Anyone born in 2027 will have one of these month pillars in their chart. For any other city and the exact minute, enter a birth date in the Bazi calculator.

The Bazi year 丁未 ends at Li Chun 2028, on 4 February 2028 at 15:31, when the 戊申 Earth Monkey year and the 甲寅 month begin.

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