Chinese Zodiac
2012: Year of the Water Dragon
Chinese New Year 2012 fell on Monday, January 23.
Yang Water Dragon (壬辰)
- By Chinese New Year: January 23, 2012 to February 9, 2013
- By Lichun (Start of Spring): February 4, 2012 to February 3, 2013
Chinese New Year follows the lunisolar calendar, so its date moves between January 21 and February 20. Lichun is a solar term that falls on February 3, 4 or 5, and it is where Ba Zi astrology starts the year.
Born from January 23 to February 3, 2012? By Chinese New Year you are already in the Year of the Water Dragon; by Lichun, the boundary Ba Zi astrology uses, you are still in the Year of the Metal Rabbit.
People born in 2012 turn 15 in 2027.
About the Water Dragon
Water gives the Dragon's magnificent ambition emotional depth, strategic patience, and flowing adaptability. The Water Dragon is the most wise and diplomatically skilled of all Dragon types, combining visionary power with the ability to read and influence situations with fluid intelligence. This element channels the Dragon's raw force through more subtle and effective routes. The Water Dragon achieves great things not through overwhelming force alone but through intuitive understanding of when to surge, when to wait, and when to change course.
The Yang Water Dragon commands with fluid authority, actively channeling their vast ambition through intuitive strategy and powerful communicative gifts.
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