2005: Year of the Wood Rooster
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 2005 is 乙酉 — Yin Wood over the Rooster 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: 酉 — Year of the Rooster
The Rooster is precise and observant — candid to a fault, with a sharp eye for exactly what's out of place.
What 2005 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
- April 8Solar eclipse
- October 3Solar eclipse
- October 17Lunar eclipse
Retrogrades
- March 20 – April 12Mercury retrograde
- July 23 – August 16Mercury retrograde
- October 1 – December 10Mars retrograde
- November 14 – December 4Mercury retrograde
- December 24 – February 3, 2006Venus retrograde
Slow planets changing sign
- July 16Saturn enters Leo
- October 26Jupiter enters Scorpio
This is the story every Rooster year shares
The stem and branch of 2005 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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