- Animal
- 🐐 Goat (羊)
- Element
- Water 水 · Yin
- Stem & Branch
- 癸未 · Guǐ Wèi
- Year starts
- February 5, 1943 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- January 24, 1944
- Age in 2027
- turns 84
- 2027 Tai Sui
- its own sign year (Ben Ming Nian)
The Water Goat personality
The Water Goat is the gentlest Goat, with sharper intuition and a more flexible mind.
All Goat years share sensitivity, taste, and a strong response to the emotional climate around them. The Water Goat stands apart because Yin Water softens the Goat’s Earth nature and makes it more adaptive, observant, and inwardly complex than the Wood, Fire, Metal, or Earth Goat. This is often the most receptive Goat type: quick to notice tone, motive, and unspoken tension, yet less rigid about how life should unfold.
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Best matches and clashes
Six Harmony partner: 🐐 Goat & 🐎 Horse. Three Harmony partners: 🐐 Goat & 🐇 Rabbit, 🐐 Goat & 🐖 Pig. Clash: 🐐 Goat & 🐂 Ox.
A Goat born in 1943 in the 2027 Fire Goat year
2027 is its own sign year (Ben Ming Nian) for the Goat. See the month-by-month forecast in Goat horoscope 2027.
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What Chinese zodiac is 1943?
1943 is the Year of the Water Goat (癸未, Guǐ Wèi). It runs from Lunar New Year on February 5, 1943 to January 24, 1944.
What element is 1943 in Chinese astrology?
Water (水), in its Yin form. The year's Heavenly Stem is 癸 and its Earthly Branch is 未 (Goat).
Is someone born in January 1943 a Goat?
Born in January or early February 1943, before February 5, 1943? Then your sign is the Water Horse of 1942.
Who is a Water Goat compatible with?
Traditionally the Goat pairs best with the Horse, Rabbit, Pig and finds the Ox most challenging.
What does 2027 mean for someone born in 1943?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Goat it is its own sign year (Ben Ming Nian). A person born in 1943 turns 84 in 2027.
Dates are computed from the Chinese lunar calendar (Lunar New Year). Some BaZi practitioners start the year at Lichun (around February 4) instead. Updated 2026-11-05.