The exact dates of the 2029 lunar year
The Earth Rooster year ran from February 13, 2029 to February 2, 2030. Twelve lunar months came to 355 days in 2029, eleven or twelve short of the solar year, and that shortfall is what pulls the following new year back towards January.
The 2029 new year fell 18 days later in the Gregorian year than the 2028 one, February 13, 2029 against January 26, 2028. Why the 2029 boundary sits where it does, rather than on any fixed date, is worked through in how the Chinese calendar works.
What the Earth Rooster pairing is taken to mean
The stem for 2029 is Ji and the branch is the Rooster, which the tradition reads as one unit rather than two. In 2029 that branch is taken to mean someone exact and outspoken, noticing detail and reporting it. Earth, the element attached to 2029, adds steadiness, patience and an attachment to what is already built.
2029 is a yin year, the inward half of the Earth pair: 2028 carries the same element in its yang form, and the two are read as the same material handled differently. Taken together, 2029 is described as the rooster temperament working through steadiness.
Born in January or early February 2029
From 1 January 2029 to February 12, 2029 the animal in force was still the Monkey, not the Rooster — 43 days of 2029 that most zodiac tables hand to the wrong animal. Someone born on 15 January 2029 is a Monkey.
The first Rooster of 2029 is anyone born on February 13, 2029 or later, and the last one anyone born on February 2, 2030. Against the 21 January to 20 February window the new year can occupy, February 13, 2029 is at the later end.
Where 2029 sits in the sixty-year cycle
2029 is position 46 of sixty in the sexagenary cycle, the Ji stem against the Rooster branch. Ten stems and twelve branches only realign after sixty years, so the previous Earth Rooster year was 1969 and the next is 2089.
Someone born in 1969 therefore returned to their own pillar in 2029, at sixty, which the tradition marks as a full turn rather than a birthday. A child born in 2029 meets the pairing again in 2089.
Compatibility, and what it rests on
The Rooster of 2029 is grouped with the Ox and the Snake, four years either side: in this stretch of the calendar that is 2025 and 2033. Its opposition is the Rabbit, six years on from 2029 in 2035.
Those distances are arithmetic, not observation. Nothing about people born in 2029 was measured to produce them; 2029 stands four years from 2025 and six from 2035, and a twelve-part circle makes those the trine and the opposition just as it does in the western zodiac.
The western comparison for 2029
Because the 2029 lunar year opened on February 13, 2029, its first day falls under Aquarius in the western zodiac, and its last, February 2, 2030, under Aquarius — while the animal for the whole of 2029 stays the Rooster.
Handbooks equate the Rooster of 2029 with Virgo, a pairing that lines up two twelve-part divisions rather than two claims about people. A western sign covers about thirty days, so 2029 holds twelve of them under one animal, and reading the 2029 Earth Rooster as a year-long version of Virgo flattens both systems.
Questions people ask about this
When did the 2029 Chinese new year start?
February 13, 2029, and the year ran on to February 2, 2030 — 355 days.
What animal is 2029?
The Rooster, in its Earth form, from February 13, 2029 onward; a birth earlier in 2029 is a Monkey.
Was 2029 a leap year in the Chinese calendar?
No. 2029 ran twelve months and 355 days, so no month was doubled.
I was born in January 2029 — which animal am I?
The Monkey, unless you were born on February 13, 2029 or later, which is when the 2029 year began.