Chinese zodiac 1995: the Wood Pig year

What the tradition says about the Wood Pig

Popular references summarize the Wood Pig as Good-natured, lovely, easy-going, generous, brave but irritable. The folk tradition also assigns the Pig lucky numbers (2, 5 and 8; unlucky: 1 and 7) and lucky colors (yellow, gray, brown and gold; unlucky: red, blue and green). These are the tradition’s answers, reported from chinahighlights’ Pig page — the same answers every popular zodiac site gives, gathered here so the mechanical sections on this page have the folklore they replace next to them.

The Pig across the five elements

The animal repeats every twelve years but the full pair repeats every sixty, so each element’s Pig has its own character. The tradition’s one-line summaries (same source as above):

The tradition’s one-line summary for each element’s Pig; this year’s row highlighted.

Element Pig	Years	The tradition’s summary
Wood Pig — this year	1935 · 1995	Good-natured, lovely, easy-going, generous, brave but irritable
Fire Pig	1947 · 2007	Ambitious, persevering, but impatient
Earth Pig	1959 · 2019	Communicative, popular among their friends, with a strong sense of time keeping
Metal Pig	1971 · 2031	Broad-minded, amicable, and willing to help others
Water Pig	1983 · 2043	Gentle, modest, earnest, responsible, but subjective in life

Who the Pig pairs with — the classical mechanics

Compatibility lists on zodiac sites are folklore with a mechanism underneath. In the classical tables the Pig’s branch 亥 forms a three-harmony trine (三合) with the Rabbit and the Goat — three branches classically said to combine into Wood — and a six-combine pair (六合) with the Tiger, transforming toward Wood. The opposite pole is the clash (六沖): the Pig and the Snake sit directly across the wheel from each other. The popular best-with lists for this animal are exactly the trine and pair partners restated, and the worst-of lists lead with the clash — the mechanics and the folklore agree here, which is why the site prints the mechanics.

These are year-branch relations between animals. Run against your own chart, the same tables pair these branches with the ones you were born under — cast your chart and the report reads them there, against your day master rather than your animal.

The year pillar, computed

Derived by cycle arithmetic against the same character tables behind every chart this site casts, and asserted against known-good anchors at build time — the same discipline as the verification corpus.

If you were born in January or early February

Every 1995 birth before the Li Chun instant above carries 甲戌, the Wood Dog. This year the zodiac calendar switches earlier: Chinese New Year falls on 31 January 1995, before Li Chun. The two counts disagree only between Chinese New Year and Li Chun — a birth in that window is the Wood Pig on a zodiac table, while BaZi still carries 甲戌, the Wood Dog. 1995’s window runs from 31 January 1995 to 4 February 1995, 15:12. Near-boundary charts are where generic lists go wrong; here the boundary is resolved by the astronomical instant, after your local clock time has been converted through historical time zones. Cast your chart and it is settled mechanically. Popular references differ on whether the animal switches at Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) or at Li Chun — this page prints both boundaries rather than picking one quietly.

Years that share the Pig, and the 乙亥 years

The animal repeats every twelve years; the full stem-and-branch pair repeats every sixty. Two people born in different Pig years share a branch — not a year pillar. 1995’s pillar 乙亥 last came round in 1935 and returns in 2055.

*Each of these years begins at its own Li Chun, so a January birth in any of them belongs to the year before it.

The twelve solar months of 1995

Your month pillar is the second of your four, and it is fixed by which solar month your birth date falls in — not by the calendar month. Each month opens at a term (節), listed here in China Standard Time. Find the row your birth date falls on or after, and that row's pillar is your month pillar.

The animal in each row is that month's branch, not your zodiac animal: every row belongs to the 1995 Wood Pig year. The 1995 year ends at Li Chun 1996: 4 February 1996, 21:07 China Standard Time.

January to Li Chun 1995: still the 甲戌 Wood Dog year

A birth from 1 January 1995 until the Li Chun instant still carries 甲戌, the Wood Dog year pillar, so its month pillar is one of the last two solar months of 1994:

Times are China Standard Time, which is the frame solar terms are published in. A birth within a few hours of a boundary needs its own clock time converted before the row can be read off — the BaZi calculator does that conversion and prints it.

Chinese zodiac 1995: quick questions

The Pig in 2026 and 2027

The next stem-branch year to arrive, the Fire Goat year 2027 (丁未), starts at Li Chun on 4 February 2027, 09:46 China Standard Time. What a year holds for a Pig is the question every zodiac site answers with a paragraph per animal; BaZi answers it from the whole chart — the year branch is one character out of eight. Read the 2027 zodiac year, computed the same way this page was built, or the 2027 forecast read from your own chart.

In Chinese astrology the year-to-sign story comes from these same branch tables. The 1995 Pig’s branch 亥 forms no named relation with 午, the 2026 Fire Horse, and forms no named relation with 未, the 2027 Fire Goat. The Pig is not among the signs the 2027 year marks; the full list, sign by sign, is on Tai Sui 2027. Anyone born in 1995 turns 31 during 2026 and 32 during 2027.

What this page does not claim

The tradition block is reported with its source, not endorsed: this site certifies no personality horoscope keyed to the animal — the year branch is one character out of eight, and the character a reading is built around is the day master, set by your birth day, not your birth year. What this page certifies is mechanical: which pillar 1995 belongs to, and exactly when it began.

The 2027 year gets the same treatment on Chinese zodiac 2027, and which birth signs it marks is worked out on Tai Sui 2027. What 2027 means for one person is read from their own four pillars, not their animal, in the 2027 BaZi forecast.