2019 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Earth Pig
2019 is the year of the Yin Earth Pig. The Earth Pig year runs from February 5th, 2019 to January 24, 2020. If you were born in 2019 on or after February 5, your Chinese zodiac sign is the Pig and your element is Earth. Born earlier in January? You belong to the year before.
Born in January or early February 2019? Read this first
The Chinese zodiac year does not start on 1 January. The Earth Pig year begins on February 5th, 2019. That one date changes the answer for everyone born in the weeks before it.
You were born before the new year turned, so you belong to 2018's sign — not 2019's.
Read the 2018 page instead →The rest of this page is yours. Everything below describes the Yin Earth Pig.
This is the single most common mistake in Chinese astrology, and it is why two people born weeks apart in the same calendar year can have completely different signs.
What a Earth Pig actually is
A Earth Pig is someone born in a Pig year that also carries the Earth element. In Chinese astrology your animal is your zodiac sign (it shapes who you are), and the element is the "energy flavour" running through it that year. So a Earth Pig blends the Pig's nature with Earth's energy of stability, nourishment and loyalty — a more specific portrait than the Pig alone.
Earth in plain terms. Earth is the energy of late summer — the steady centre that everything returns to. It adds patience, reliability and a deep instinct to care for the people around them.
They are the dependable anchor others build their lives around.
Too much Earth becomes worry, over-giving or difficulty letting go.
Pig strengths and blind spots
Where you are strong. Pigs are the zodiac's most genuinely warm sign, open, honest, generous with time and resources. They make friends easily and keep them for life. Their optimism is earned, not naive.
Where it costs you. Pigs can be too trusting, prone to indulgence, and slow to leave bad situations. Their generosity sometimes attracts takers.
Work that suits a Earth Pig
Chef, hospitality, teacher, nurse, philanthropist, artist, farmer, counselor.
Read that as a description of the conditions you do your best work in, not a list you have to pick from. Earth shapes how you work as much as the Pig shapes what you are drawn to.
Who the Pig gets on with
In the classical system the twelve animals fall into groups that support each other and pairs that grind. For the Pig, the natural allies are Tiger, Rabbit and Goat, and the hardest work tends to be with Snake and Monkey.
Lucky colours, numbers and hours for the Earth Pig
These belong to the Pig as a sign, which means they are shared by everyone born in a Pig year. A colour chosen for you works differently: it is picked to feed whichever of the five elements your own chart is short of, and two Pigs can need opposite colours for that reason.
Other Earth Pig years
The animal cycles every 12 years and the element every 10, so the exact pairing Earth Pig only comes round once every 60 years. Anyone born in these years shares your sign exactly:
Your birth year is one pillar out of four
Everything above is true of you — and equally true of everyone else born in 2019. Millions of people share the Earth Pig sign.
What separates your chart from theirs is the month, day and hour you were born. Those three add three more pillars to the one on this page. Together they decide whether your core element — the character at the centre of your chart, traditionally called your Day Master — is supported or drained, which of the five elements you are carrying too much of, which one is missing, and which ten-year cycle you are standing in right now.
That is the part a page about 2019 cannot know. It needs your birth time.
See your full chart, not just your year
Free, and it takes a birth date. Your Energy Chart reads all four pillars and shows the element balance behind them.
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