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The Rabbit at a Glance
Your Earthly Branch is Mǎo (卯), carrying the fixed element Wood and Yin (receptive) polarity — both fixed for life, unlike the rotating element below. In the 12-animal cycle the Rabbit sits 4th of 12, trine-linked to Goat and Pig, and in direct clash with the Rooster straight across the wheel. Traditionally, the Rabbit hour runs 5 AM – 7 AM. None of that is typed in by hand — it comes straight from the Rabbit's 4th-of-12 position in the cycle, computed the same way for all 12 signs.
- Earthly Branch
- Mǎo (卯)
- Fixed Element
- Wood
- Polarity
- Yin (receptive)
- Archetype
- The Graceful Diplomat
- Ruling Hours
- 5 AM – 7 AM
- Cycle Position
- 4th of 12
- Trine Allies
- Goat & Pig
- Direct Clash
- Rooster
- Next Rabbit Year
- 2035 (Wood)
| Element | Year | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Rabbit | 1987 | January 29, 1987 | February 16, 1988 |
| Earth Rabbit | 1999 | February 16, 1999 | February 4, 2000 |
| Metal Rabbit | 2011 | February 3, 2011 | January 22, 2012 |
| Water Rabbit | 2023 | January 22, 2023 | February 9, 2024 |
| Wood Rabbit | 2035 | February 8, 2035 | January 27, 2036 |
Your nearest Fire Rabbit year is 1987, opening January 29, 1987 and closing February 16, 1988.
Wood · Yin
The Rabbit: The Graceful Diplomat
Everything below is true of every Rabbit, in any year. What makes it yours is the chart above — your Mǎo (卯) branch, your Yin (receptive) polarity, and the 4th-of-12 seat in the cycle a full BaZi reading builds on. Your fixed element, Wood, colors how that 4th-of-12 personality actually shows up day to day.
You move through the world by reading it. You don't force outcomes, you arrange the conditions and then glide through them with a grace that makes hard things look effortless to people who never saw the work. Make no mistake, this is strategy, not softness. You win through timing, relationship, and tact in rooms where the people swinging hammers wear themselves out and lose.
You have a real eye, a genuine pull toward beauty, calm, and surroundings that feel right, and you function best where the air isn't full of conflict. You do your best work with people who speak with care, inside structures that feel fair. That isn't fragility, it's an accurate read of what lets your particular gift actually fire. You just know, instantly, when a room is off.
The trouble is what you'll swallow to keep the peace. Your reflex is to smooth it over, to not push when pushing would be uncomfortable, to keep things pleasant even when something genuinely needs to be said out loud. So it goes unsaid, sometimes for months, until the resentment underneath is bigger than the original problem ever was.
You also take on the room's mood as your job to fix, absorbing other people's difficulty as if it were yours to resolve. It quietly drains you and almost no one knows it's happening. The practice for you isn't to become harsh. It's to learn which discomforts are worth letting yourself feel, instead of managing everyone around you out of theirs.
That's the Rabbit in general. Born under a Wood branch at the 4th seat of the cycle, with Yin (receptive) polarity running underneath it, is what a full chart uses to make it specific to you.
Where it goes from here
Reading a Rabbit Chart
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Confirm your exact year
The Rabbit covers a birth year, but the Chinese zodiac year opens at Chinese New Year, not January 1 — check your exact boundary before you assume. 1987, 1999 are Rabbit years on this site.
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See your rotating element
Rabbit is fixed for life, but its paired element rotates. Your next Rabbit year is 2035, a Wood Rabbit, opening February 8, 2035.
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Read the rest of the chart
Your Year Animal is the public layer. A full BaZi reading also weighs your Day Master and the balance of the five elements, plus how your chart sits against the Rabbit's own 4th-of-12 cycle position and its 5 AM – 7 AM hour branch.
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Rabbit — Questions People Ask
What years are the Chinese zodiac Rabbit?
Rabbit years repeat every twelve years, each one paired with a different element. On this site, 1987, 1999 are Rabbit years — your next one lands in 2035, opening February 8, 2035. That's a Wood Rabbit year, 4th in line since the last full rotation.
What element is the Rabbit?
The Rabbit's fixed branch element is Wood, but the Heavenly Stem paired with it rotates through all five elements across the 60-year cycle — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water each take a turn. The nearest Fire Rabbit year is 1987; the full rotation is in the table above.
What hours does the Rabbit rule?
In traditional BaZi, each of the 12 animals also rules a two-hour block of the day. The Rabbit's hours are 5 AM – 7 AM — the same branch, Mǎo (卯), that gives the Rabbit its year also governs an Hour Pillar for anyone born in that window.
Which signs is the Rabbit most compatible with?
Goat and Pig and Dog sit closest to the Rabbit — Goat and Pig share its 4th-of-12 trine position, one of the three harmonious groupings the 12-animal cycle forms every 4 positions. Rabbit tends to hit more friction with Rooster, Dragon, Rat — and its direct clash, straight across the cycle, is the Rooster.
Is the Rabbit the same every year?
The animal itself never changes — anyone born in a Rabbit year is a Rabbit for life. What changes is the element: Rabbit sits 4th of 12 in the cycle, and each time it comes back around (every 12 years) it's paired with the next element in the 60-year rotation, which is why 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020 and 2032 are all Rabbit years with five different elemental characters.
Where does the Rabbit sit in the 12-year cycle?
4th of 12. The cycle runs Rat through Pig in a fixed order, and the Rabbit's position sets both its trine allies — Goat and Pig — and its direct clash, the Rooster, which always sits exactly 6 positions around the wheel.
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