- Animal
- 🐐 Goat (羊)
- Element
- Wood 木 · Yin
- Stem & Branch
- 乙未 · Yǐ Wèi
- Year starts
- January 24, 1955 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- February 11, 1956
- Age in 2027
- turns 72
- 2027 Tai Sui
- its own sign year (Ben Ming Nian)
The Wood Goat personality
Gentle, artistic, and quietly determined under pressure.
The Wood Goat stands out from other Goat years by adding flexibility, growth, and social grace to the Goat’s naturally sensitive, peace-seeking nature. Goat is a Yin Earth sign: thoughtful, feeling-based, and strongly affected by atmosphere. Yin Wood, like a vine or new branch, brings patience, creativity, and a wish to improve what is already there rather than force change.
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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 1955 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 1955?
1955 is the Year of the Wood Goat (乙未, Yǐ Wèi). It runs from Lunar New Year on January 24, 1955 to February 11, 1956.
What element is 1955 in Chinese astrology?
Wood (木), in its Yin form. The year's Heavenly Stem is 乙 and its Earthly Branch is 未 (Goat).
Is someone born in January 1955 a Goat?
Born in January or early February 1955, before January 24, 1955? Then your sign is the Wood Horse of 1954.
Who is a Wood 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 1955?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Goat it is its own sign year (Ben Ming Nian). A person born in 1955 turns 72 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.