Vietnamese zodiac
Stems and branches, elements, matches and common misconceptions.
Vietnamese zodiac
Trines, clashes and pairs: where the zodiac compatibility table comes from, and where it should stop
The two sets of rules people check most before a wedding. They are drawn from a circle of twelve points, nearly two thousand years old, and they contradict themselves in two places almost nobody notices.
16/10/2026 · 5 min read
Vietnamese zodiac
A whole-life reading for Canh Ngọ 1990, men: the chart of someone who carries the load
Roadside earth, the Horse, yang male — and 2026 is his own year. This piece reads each part of the chart, says where it is accurate, and says where it runs out.
21/09/2026 · 6 min read
Vietnamese zodiac
Canh Ngọ 1990, men: love, work, the household, and everyone else
Four areas read from a single image: the strip of earth beside a road. It holds the whole road up, everybody walks over it, and very little grows on it.
21/09/2026 · 6 min read
Vietnamese zodiac
Giáp Tuất 1994, men: love, work, the household, and everyone else
Four areas read off one chart. Not four paragraphs vague enough to fit anybody — four consequences of a single image: a fire burning on a mountain top.
10/09/2026 · 5 min read
Vietnamese zodiac
A whole-life reading for Giáp Tuất 1994, men: how to read one without handing it your life
Fire on the mountain top, the Dog, yang male. This piece explains where each part of that reading comes from, what it actually claims, and the point at which you should stop believing it.
08/09/2026 · 5 min read
Vietnamese zodiac
The sixty-year cycle: how to name any year by stem and branch, and why sixty was treated as a full life
Ten heavenly stems paired with twelve earthly branches give exactly sixty combinations. This piece shows how to work out any year's name in ten seconds, why older Vietnamese remember history by names like Ất Dậu and Mậu Thân, and why sixty is a lap rather than a stretch.
07/09/2026 · 4 min read
Vietnamese zodiac
Born in January or early February: which animal sign are you, and the year Vietnam's new year came a month before China's
Tết falls between 21 January and 20 February, so anyone born in that window has to check their own year. And in some years the Vietnamese and Chinese calendars disagree by a day, or even a month, so one birth date can give two animals.
14/07/2026 · 4 min read
Coming up
Written and waiting; each appears by itself on its date.
- Born on a cusp: why sites disagree about your star sign, and how to find out for certain23/10/2026
- How the Big Five and the sixteen types differ: measuring on a scale or sorting into boxes, and why it decides how far to trust each27/10/2026
- Retook a personality test and got a different result: why it happens so often, and how to read two results30/10/2026
- What the Saturn return is: why twenty-nine is so often a messy year, and what psychologists found in people about to turn thirty03/11/2026