1955: Year of the Wood Goat
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 1955 is 乙未 — Yin Wood over the Goat branch.
The Heavenly Stem: 乙 (Wood)
Yin Wood is the vine or garden flower — flexible, adaptive, and better at bending around a problem than confronting it head-on.
The Earthly Branch: 未 — Year of the Goat
The Goat is gentle and artistic — most at ease in a group, with a quiet sensitivity that shows up in how it makes things.
What 1955 holds in the sky
Computed from the same ephemeris as the charts: every date below is a position, not a prediction, and can be checked against any astronomical almanac.
Eclipses
- June 20Solar eclipse
- November 29Lunar eclipse
- December 14Solar eclipse
Retrogrades
- February 3 – February 25Mercury retrograde
- June 3 – June 27Mercury retrograde
- October 1 – October 22Mercury retrograde
Slow planets changing sign
- June 13Jupiter enters Leo
- August 24Uranus enters Leo
- November 17Jupiter enters Virgo
- December 24Neptune enters Scorpio
This is the story every Goat year shares
The stem and branch of 1955 describe the year itself, so they read the same for everyone born into it and everyone living through it. That is the group-level half. Your own chart also weighs your exact birth date, time, and location, which is what turns this into something specific to you.
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