2027: the Goat
2027 is 丁未 dīng wèi, the Fire Goat. If you were born in a goat year, here is the traditional reading — and the part that is not folklore at all, the character itself.
| Lunar new year begins | February 6, 2027 |
| Year name | 丁未 dīng wèi — the Fire Goat |
| Runs until | January 26, 2028 |
| Your animal | 羊 Goat — Same sign · 本命年 |
The character 羊
The oracle-bone 羊 is a goat or sheep's head seen head-on, with two horns curving down and out. It's one of the clearest pictographs in the set — and the same character covers both goat and sheep in Chinese, which is why the zodiac sign is translated either way.
That is the honest core of this page. Whatever you decide about the astrology, 羊 is a real object with a real history, and it has been drawn more or less the same way for three thousand years.
Your own sign in 2027
Same sign — your own year
本命年 (Ben Ming Nian) — Your own sign comes round again. Traditionally the year is read as a turning point rather than a verdict.
What this page is: 合冲害 is a traditional Chinese way of talking about relationships between the twelve signs. It is folklore, not prediction — treat it the way you would treat a horoscope column. The part of this page you can actually learn something from is the character.
Years of the Goat
The goat returns every twelve years. Recent ones:
2027 · 2015 · 2003 · 1991 · 1979 · 1967 · 1955 · 1943
Every one of these is a lunar year, beginning at Chinese New Year rather than January 1. If you were born in January or early February, your animal is usually the previous year's — the zodiac finder handles those edge cases.