2029: Year of the Earth Rooster
In the Chinese sexagenary calendar, 2029 is 己酉 — Yin Earth over the Rooster 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: 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 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
This is the story every Rooster year shares
The stem and branch of 2029 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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