2019: Year of the Earth Pig
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 2019 is 己亥 — Yin Earth over the Pig 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: 亥 — Year of the Pig
The Pig is warm and generous — easygoing, sincere, and genuinely glad to share what it has.
What 2019 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
- January 6Solar eclipse
- January 21Lunar eclipse
- July 2Solar eclipse
- July 16Lunar eclipse
- December 26Solar eclipse
Retrogrades
- March 5 – March 28Mercury retrograde
- July 7 – August 1Mercury retrograde
- October 31 – November 20Mercury retrograde
Slow planets changing sign
- March 6Uranus enters Taurus
- December 2Jupiter enters Capricorn
This is the story every Pig year shares
The stem and branch of 2019 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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