1970 庚戌
Metal Dog year
1970 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Metal Dog
Quick answer
People born from February 4, 1970 through February 3, 1971 are Metal Dogs. (Born on February 4, 1970 itself? The exact boundary falls at a specific hour that day — a birth time settles it.) Born in 1970 before that date? You belong to the previous year — the Earth Rooster.
The Dog is loyalty with a conscience. Fair-minded, protective, and honest to the bone, Dogs are the ones who actually show up — at the airport, at the hospital, at the argument where you needed one person on your side. They smell injustice early and cannot un-smell it. The shadow is worry and pessimism: a watchfulness that never fully clocks out, and a tendency to rehearse betrayal before it happens. At their best, Dogs are the moral spine of their circle — not the loudest voice, but the one everyone checks their compass against.
The Metal year sharpens this temperament: more resolve, cleaner edges, a taste for standards and finish. These are the ones who cut through.
♥ In love
Devoted, steady, anxious in silence. A Dog needs reassurance spoken plainly and returns it a hundredfold in faithfulness.
◆ At work
Strong in justice-adjacent and guardian roles: law, medicine, security, nonprofits, HR done right. Cynical workplaces corrode a Dog faster than hard work ever could.
The Dog temperament in full — love, career, trine allies and clashes — lives on the animal page.
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