1979: Year of the Earth Goat
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 1979 is 己未 — Yin Earth over the Goat branch.
The Heavenly Stem: 己 (Earth)
Yin Earth is the cultivated field — practical, nurturing, and shaped by what's needed of it rather than by its own will.
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 1979 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
- February 26Solar eclipse
- March 13Lunar eclipse
- August 22Solar eclipse
- September 6Lunar eclipse
Retrogrades
- March 15 – April 7Mercury retrograde
- July 17 – August 11Mercury retrograde
- November 9 – November 29Mercury retrograde
Slow planets changing sign
- February 28Jupiter enters Cancer
- April 20Jupiter enters Leo
- September 29Jupiter enters Virgo
This is the story every Goat year shares
The stem and branch of 1979 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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