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New Year?
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What this is

Your birthday. That’s all.

The Chinese zodiac year doesn’t turn over on January 1. It turns over on the lunar new year, a date that moves every year and usually lands between late January and mid-February.

Born on January 15th? You’re probably still last year’s animal. Most sites that just look up your birth year get this wrong for anyone born in that window. We check the actual date against the actual lunar calendar instead of assuming.