2027 — Year of the Fire Goat
2027 is the Year of the Fire Goat (also called the Sheep or the Ram). It begins at Lichun, on February 4, 2027, at 04:46 Moscow time, and lasts until the next Lichun, on February 4, 2028.
The Year's Animal
The Goat is the eighth sign of the cycle, a symbol of gentleness, taste, and sensitivity. After the headlong Horse year, tradition expects the pace to slow: Goat years are seen as a time for recovery, creativity, and family matters.
The sign's profile is on the Goat page; a look at the combination is on the Fire Goat page.
Element and Color
The element of 2027 is Fire (the last digit is 7), and its polarity is yin. The colors are the same as in 2026 — red, crimson, orange — but this is a yin year, meaning a quieter one.
Fire combined with the Goat brings emotionality and a creative surge, with little practicality. The previous Fire Goat year was 1967; the next will be in 2087.
Who Will Be Lucky
The year is considered favorable for the signs in the Goat's triangle — the Rabbit and the Pig.
It is harder for the Ox — the opposite sign — and for Goats themselves, for whom it is their "own year."
It's also worth keeping in mind the Chinese prejudice against the "Year of the Sheep": a saying holds that people born in this year are unlucky, which is why birth rates dip in such years. The belief has no basis, but its consequences are quite real — there are fewer births in China in these years.
The Year by the Numbers
- Year pillar: 丁未, yin fire over the Goat branch.
- Astrological year: from February 4, 2027, 09:46 Beijing time (04:46 Moscow time) to February 4, 2028, 15:31 Beijing time (10:31 Moscow time).
- Chinese New Year, the lunar calendar holiday, falls on February 6, 2027. The lunar year has 354 days and no leap month.
- The year's flying stars: 9 in the center, the 5 in the north, the 2 in the west. You can see them on your own home's chart in the flying star calculator.
- Tai Sui: southwest, the Wei mountain (未); Sui Po: northeast, the Chou mountain (丑); Three Killings: west (branches 申 酉 戌).
- Kyusei Kigaku year star: 九紫火星, the 9. Check the year's directions for your own star.
All the dates of 2027 in the Chinese calendar — solar terms and lunar months — are collected on the Chinese calendar 2027 page.
How to Welcome the Year
The same traditions apply: clean the house, settle your debts, wear red. For a Goat year, tradition additionally advises focusing on home and family rather than career leaps.
The practical takeaway, setting the mysticism aside: 2027 is a good time to return to a creative or family project you had put on hold, especially after the fast and noisy Horse year.