1999: Year of the Earth Rabbit
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 1999 is 己卯 — Yin Earth over the Rabbit 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: 卯 — Year of the Rabbit
The Rabbit is gentle and diplomatic — attentive to detail and to other people's comfort, often the one who keeps a room at ease.
What 1999 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 16Solar eclipse
- July 28Lunar eclipse
- August 11Solar eclipse
Retrogrades
- March 10 – April 2Mercury retrograde
- March 18 – June 4Mars retrograde
- July 12 – August 6Mercury retrograde
- July 30 – September 11Venus retrograde
- November 5 – November 25Mercury retrograde
Slow planets changing sign
- February 13Jupiter enters Aries
- March 1Saturn enters Taurus
- June 28Jupiter enters Taurus
- October 23Jupiter enters Aries
This is the story every Rabbit year shares
The stem and branch of 1999 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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