Rabbit years
- #4 of 12
- Element: wood
- midspring
- 05~07h
The rabbit holds midspring, where wood grows at its gentlest. It reads as soft, and it is also unusually unmixed — almost nothing else hides inside the branch. Unmixed is not the same as weak.
The rabbit reads as gentle. Only wood hides in its branch, so almost nothing is mixed in. Unmixed is the more accurate word than gentle: less friction, and very little change of course once the direction is set.
Holding midspring, it stays in a growing phase for a long stretch. Results tend to arrive late and then persist. The patience attributed to this sign is less about enduring than about running on a longer cycle.
The five year pillars inside this sign
The branch stays the same; the heavenly stem above it changes every twelve years, and with it the whole reading. Find your birth year below.
1975Green Rabbit
Soft on the outside, with one axis that will not bend. Wood on wood leaves almost nothing mixed in, so the direction runs single. It accommodates almost everything until that axis is touched.
1987Red Rabbit
It keeps people warm for a long time. Wood feeds fire, so the expression is warm and relationships run long. Being the one who warms, though, its own temperature is what gets checked last.
1999Yellow Rabbit
Quiet, and unwilling to stop short of the place it wants. Wood works into earth without noise, which is why people notice late.
2011White Rabbit
Acute senses and a high bar. Metal shapes young wood, so something is always being adjusted. The strictness lands on itself first, which is why the fatigue does too.
2023Black Rabbit
Thick support underneath, so uptake is quick. Water soaks wood here. It helps in any learning phase — and with support this generous, stepping back is easier than pushing in when the moment asks.
Which signs Rabbit meets well
Branch relations are fixed by position in the cycle, so they hold for every year of this sign.
Six harmony — the easiest pair
Young wood meets dry earth. When the dog's standard holds the rabbit's sensitivity, both settle.
Three Harmony — the group that gets things done
Together these three form a wood frame. Their strength shows in nurturing and continuity.
Clash — meeting head-on
Young wood against forged metal. Both hold high standards, so each tends to challenge the other's first.
Hidden grudge — friction without a reason
Both read the room quickly, in different directions. Each anticipates the other's intent, and that is exactly what tires them.
Sign-to-sign is the coarse layer — one twelfth of the population shares it. Real compatibility is read from the day pillar, which needs a birth date.
One catch: Ipchun, not January 1
A sign does not change at midnight on January 1. It changes at Ipchun, the solar term falling around February 4. Someone born in January 2011 is not Rabbit — that birthday still belongs to Tiger, the 庚寅 year. If you were born in January or the first days of February, the sign most sites hand you may be off by one. ARO reads the solar-term boundary, computed to the minute.
Your sign is one of four characters in your chart. The other three — month, day, and hour — decide how it actually plays out.
ARO reads patterns, not destiny. This page is a way in, not a verdict.