1969 Chinese Zodiac: Earth Rooster

01 / Check the boundary

What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in 1969?

Two zodiac signs fall within the Gregorian year 1969. Choose the row containing your birthday. These dates include both the first and last day; the animal changes at Chinese New Year, not on January 1.

1969 birth dates and zodiac signs
Gregorian birthday	Animal & year element
January 1, 1969 – February 16, 1969	Earth Monkey 猴
February 17, 1969 – December 31, 1969	Earth Rooster 鸡

The full 1969 lunar year continues into 1970, through February 5, 1970. A birthday on February 16, 1969 belongs to the Monkey; a birthday one day later, on February 17, 1969, belongs to the Rooster.

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02 / The story of the year

What kind of Rooster is 1969?

1969 is a Earth Rooster year. Its stem-branch name is 己酉 (jǐ-yǒu): the heavenly stem 己 carries yin earth, and the earthly branch 酉 corresponds to the Rooster.

Zodiac animal: Rooster · 鸡
Year element: Earth
Stem & branch: 己酉 · jǐ-yǒu
Lunar year length: 354 days

Rooster personality in tradition

The Rooster is linked with watchfulness and the arrival of a new day. Jī is the general Chinese word for chicken.

The phrase “attentive & expressive” describes a traditional association with this animal, rather than a rule about everyone born in 1969. The year element is one part of the calendar; it does not establish a person's complete five-elements or Bāzì chart.

我属鸡。

Wǒ shǔ jī. “I was born in the Year of the Rooster.”

Rooster compatibility in folklore

Rooster, Ox and Snake form a traditional harmony group of three. Rabbit sits opposite Rooster, six places away in the twelve-animal cycle. These describe symbolic positions, not evidence of who will make a good partner.

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03 / A closer look at the dates

1969 lunar calendar at a glance

This Rooster year contains 12 lunar months and 354 days. There is no leap lunar month in this year. A leap month keeps the same animal and year element. The table follows the full lunar year, so its final months extend into 1970.

Lunar months of 1969: Gregorian start and end dates
Lunar month	Begins	Ends	Days
Month 1	February 17, 1969	March 17, 1969	29
Month 2	March 18, 1969	April 16, 1969	30
Month 3	April 17, 1969	May 15, 1969	29
Month 4	May 16, 1969	June 14, 1969	30
Month 5	June 15, 1969	July 13, 1969	29
Month 6	July 14, 1969	August 12, 1969	30
Month 7	August 13, 1969	September 11, 1969	30
Month 8	September 12, 1969	October 10, 1969	29
Month 9	October 11, 1969	November 9, 1969	30
Month 10	November 10, 1969	December 8, 1969	29
Month 11	December 9, 1969	January 7, 1970	30
Month 12	January 8, 1970	February 5, 1970	29

04 / Follow the cycle

Other Years of the Rooster

The Rooster returns every 12 years; the same Earth Rooster combination returns every 60. These are the other Rooster years in our 1901–2100 directory. Their New Year dates differ, so open a year to check its exact birthday boundary.

1909Earth Rooster 1921Metal Rooster 1933Water Rooster 1945Wood Rooster 1957Fire Rooster 1981Metal Rooster 1993Water Rooster 2005Wood Rooster 2017Fire Rooster 2029Earth Rooster 2041Metal Rooster 2053Water Rooster 2065Wood Rooster 2077Fire Rooster 2089Earth Rooster

Sources & calendar convention

Dates are calculated from our local lunar-month dataset. The links below provide the Observatory’s calendar for this Gregorian year and an explanation of the stem-branch cycle. Cultural interpretations are introductory folklore, not predictions.