2029: Year of the Earth Rooster

When does 2029 begin?

• Chinese New Year (the lunar calendar): February 13, 2029.
• BaZi (the solar calendar this page uses): the Start of Spring, February 3, 2029, 9:20 p.m. Beijing time — 8:20 a.m. on February 3 Eastern, 5:20 a.m. on February 3 Pacific.

Anyone born between those two dates falls in different years under the two calendars: already the year of the Rooster in BaZi, but still the year of the Monkey by the lunar calendar.

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: 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.

Which years are Rooster years?

1933 Water1945 Wood1957 Fire1969 Earth1981 Metal1993 Water2005 Wood2017 Fire2029 Earth

Born in January or early February? In BaZi each of these years begins at the Start of Spring, around February 4. Born before it, you belong to the year before.

What 2029 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 14Solar eclipse
• June 12Solar eclipse
• June 26Lunar eclipse
• July 11Solar eclipse
• December 5Solar eclipse
• December 20Lunar eclipse

Retrogrades

• January 7 – January 27Mercury retrograde
• February 14 – May 5Mars retrograde
• May 1 – May 25Mercury retrograde
• September 2 – September 25Mercury retrograde
• December 16 – January 26, 2030Venus retrograde
• December 22 – January 11, 2030Mercury retrograde

Slow planets changing sign

• September 24Jupiter enters Scorpio