
Rabbit 兔
Wood · Yin
Year of the Rabbit
The Rabbit is proof that gentleness is a strategy, not a weakness. Tactful, aesthetic, and finely tuned to atmosphere, Rabbits sense the tension in a room before a word is spoken and quietly rearrange things until people can breathe again. They avoid open conflict not from fear but from economy — most fights, they notice, were never necessary. The shadow is avoidance: slipping away from hard conversations until the soft exit becomes its own harm. At their best, Rabbits build the beautiful, calm rooms — literal and human — that everyone else heals in.
♥ In love
Romantic in the old sense: attentive, devoted to comfort, fluent in small gestures. Rabbits need safety before depth — rush them and they vanish politely.
◆ At work
Shines in diplomacy, design, care work, hospitality, editing — anywhere taste and tact are the product. Cutthroat arenas waste a Rabbit’s real gifts.
Compatibility
The Rabbit's trine allies are the Goat & Pig — signs whose energy traditionally amplifies theirs. The clash opposite is the Rooster: friction that can teach, but takes work. Folklore, not fate.
Rabbit years
Zodiac years begin at 立春 (Start of Spring, around February 4) — January and early-February births usually belong to the previous animal. Our lookup corrects for this automatically.