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Chinese Zodiac Daily Horoscope · Sinabro Labs
A day to wrap up unfinished business and prepare for what's next.
Today is all about the details for Dragon. Careful organizing and checking now will be a big help down the road. Feeling good? Finish strong all the way.
The only mythical animal of the zodiac. Pursues great ambitions with powerful energy.
The Dragon is proud, large in scale and full of charisma. Big ideals and strong drive bring great achievement, but pride and perfectionism can reduce flexibility.
Loves boldly and devotedly. Becomes a dependable presence, but should practice setting pride aside and expressing feelings honestly.
Performs on a big stage — management, politics, art, broadcasting, the professions, any field of wide influence.
Strong fortune with some ups and downs. An eye for the big picture is its strength; taming greed lets wealth gather.
Element
Earth (Yang)
Direction
east-southeast
Hour
7am–9am
Season
late spring
Lunar month
month 3 of the lunar year
Trine
Sin–Ja–Jin Water — storing seat
It could fly and should have arrived first, but the tale says it stopped to bring rain to a village in drought. It is the only one that could have won and chose otherwise. The Jin (辰) hour (7–9am) is when the morning mist clears, and this seat hands spring over to summer.
Read from the Jin (辰) seat. What do these terms mean?
Three Harmony three signs that together form one element · Six Harmony one of the six pairs the twelve fold into · Neutral no fixed harmony or clash · Same Seat the same branch twice · Break arrangements tend to slip · Harm each quietly loses a little · Clash directly opposite on the circleRat is the middle and Dragon the close. Add Monkey at the start and the three make Water.
Dragon is the close and Monkey the start. Add Rat at the middle and the three make Water.
Together they turn to Metal. Late spring and mid-autumn are 5 steps apart, mirrored across the line between Rat–Ox and Horse–Goat.
Wood presses on Earth; 2 steps apart (lunar months 1, 3).
Dragon × Dragon
Season, hour and direction all coincide (late spring, 7–9am, east-southeast). Monkey and Rat fill what is missing.
Fire feeds Earth, so Snake supports; 1 step apart (lunar months 3, 4).
Fire feeds Earth, so Horse supports; 2 steps apart (lunar months 3, 5).
Both run on Earth; 3 steps apart (lunar months 3, 6).
Earth presses on Water; 5 steps apart (lunar months 3, 10).
North-northeast and east-southeast, late winter and late spring — angled away from each other.
Lunar months 2 and 3 — 1 step apart.
East-southeast against west-northwest, 7–9am against 7–9pm — and Earth against Earth.
Take 2024: the Dragon year begins on Feb 10, the lunar new year — anyone born before that is still the Rabbit. Saju counts the year from Lichun instead, which fell on Feb 4 that year, so births between the two dates carry one sign by custom and another in the chart. Why two different rules?
| Year | Starts (lunar new year) | Lichun (Saju year) |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Feb 10 | Feb 4 |
| 2012 | Jan 23 | Feb 4 |
| 2000 | Feb 5 | Feb 4 |
| 1988 | Feb 18 | Feb 4 |
| 1976 | Jan 31 | Feb 5 |
| 1964 | Feb 13 | Feb 5 |
The branch repeats every twelve years but the stem runs on a ten-year cycle, so the same pairing only comes back after sixty. That makes five kinds of Dragon year, each carrying a different stem element on top of Earth.
2024, 2012, 2000, 1988, 1976, 1964, 1952 and 1940 are Dragon years. If born before the lunar new year you may belong to the previous sign, the Rabbit.
The Dragon's best matches are the Rat and Monkey, and it pairs well with the Rooster. Tension tends to arise with the Dog.
By adding cooperation to its natural scale and drive, and taming pride and perfectionism, the Dragon achieves great things.