2015: Year of the Wood Goat
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 2015 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 2015 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
- March 20Solar eclipse
- April 4Lunar eclipse
- September 13Solar eclipse
- September 28Lunar eclipse
Retrogrades
- January 21 – February 11Mercury retrograde
- May 19 – June 11Mercury retrograde
- July 25 – September 6Venus retrograde
- September 17 – October 9Mercury retrograde
Slow planets changing sign
- June 15Saturn enters Scorpio
- August 11Jupiter enters Virgo
- September 18Saturn enters Sagittarius
This is the story every Goat year shares
The stem and branch of 2015 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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