- Animal
- 🐐 Goat (羊)
- Element
- Wood 木 · Yin
- Stem & Branch
- 乙未 · Yǐ Wèi
- Year starts
- February 19, 2015 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- February 7, 2016
- Age in 2027
- turns 12
- 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 2015 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 2015?
2015 is the Year of the Wood Goat (乙未, Yǐ Wèi). It runs from Lunar New Year on February 19, 2015 to February 7, 2016.
What element is 2015 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 2015 a Goat?
Born in January or early February 2015, before February 19, 2015? Then your sign is the Wood Horse of 2014.
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 2015?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Goat it is its own sign year (Ben Ming Nian). A person born in 2015 turns 12 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.