Goat

2015 乙未

Wood Goat year

2015 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Wood Goat

Quick answer

People born from February 4, 2015 through February 3, 2016 are Wood Goats. (Born on February 4, 2015 itself? The exact boundary falls at a specific hour that day — a birth time settles it.) Born in 2015 before that date? You belong to the previous year — the Wood Horse.

The Goat is the cycle’s artist and its softest strength. Kind, imaginative, and moved by beauty in a way that is almost physical, Goats create atmosphere wherever they settle — the meal, the playlist, the exact right word for a friend’s grief. They flourish inside support and wither under harsh judgment; security is not a luxury for a Goat, it is the soil. The shadow is worry and drift: imagining ten futures instead of choosing one. At their best, Goats remind everyone what the striving was for — a life that actually feels like something.

The Wood year makes it grow outward: more idealism, more building, a stubborn faith that things can be better made than found.

♥ In love

Tender, devoted, and quietly romantic. A Goat needs to feel emotionally safe before anything else works; kindness is the whole language.

◆ At work

Thrives in the arts, design, healing professions, education, and teams with real warmth. Cold metrics-only cultures starve a Goat’s best work.

Why this element: The heavenly stem 乙 (Yi) carries Wood; the Goat's fixed element is Earth. That combination is what makes 2015 a Wood Goat year.

The Goat temperament in full — love, career, trine allies and clashes — lives on the animal page.

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All Goat years

Your Wood Goat year is one pillar of four.

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