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Chinese Zodiac Years 1960–1969 — Animals, Stems and Elements

Every Chinese zodiac year from 1960 to 1969 with its animal, heavenly stem, element and polarity — and which animals the 1960–1969 span omits.

Quick answer

What Chinese zodiac years are in the 1960s?

1960 Rat, 1961 Ox, 1962 Tiger, 1963 Rabbit, 1964 Dragon, 1965 Snake, 1966 Horse, 1967 Goat, 1968 Monkey and 1969 Rooster. The Dog and the Pig are absent from this decade.

Span
Rat – Rooster
Years
1960–1969
Animals present
10 of 12
Missing
Dog, Pig
1960鼠Rat庚 · Metal1961牛Ox辛 · Metal1962虎Tiger壬 · Water1963兔Rabbit癸 · Water1964龙Dragon甲 · Wood1965蛇Snake乙 · Wood1966马Horse丙 · Fire1967羊Goat丁 · Fire1968猴Monkey戊 · Earth1969鸡Rooster己 · EarthNot reached in 1960–1969: Dog, Pig — a ten-year span is two short of a full cycle.
All 10 years of 1960–1969 in reading order. The branch (and so the animal) steps forward one place every year; the stem steps forward too, on its own ten-year cycle, which is why the element colour repeats every ten years while the animal repeats every twelve.

Every year in this decade

YearBranchAnimal StemElementPolarity
1960子 ZiRat庚 GengMetal 金Yang
1961丑 ChouOx辛 XinMetal 金Yin
1962寅 YinTiger壬 RenWater 水Yang
1963卯 MaoRabbit癸 GuiWater 水Yin
1964辰 ChenDragon甲 JiaWood 木Yang
1965巳 SiSnake乙 YiWood 木Yin
1966午 WuHorse丙 BingFire 火Yang
1967未 WeiGoat丁 DingFire 火Yin
1968申 ShenMonkey戊 WuEarth 土Yang
1969酉 YouRooster己 JiEarth 土Yin
The branch and stem columns are the two characters of the year pillar. The animal is the branch; the element is carried by the stem.

Stem elements across this decade

Metal 金
2 years
Water 水
2 years
Wood 木
2 years
Fire 火
2 years
Earth 土
2 years

Every decade contains one of each of the ten stems, so the element counts below are structural rather than distinctive — each of the five elements appears exactly twice across any complete ten-year span.

What this decade shares

This decade begins at Geng-Zi. The Zi branch is the first of the twelve and the only Yang branch in the water group, which gives the opening of the 1960s a specific character: a start that is clean and single-minded. Zi holds only one hidden stem, Gui, and branches with a single hidden stem are read as having no internal argument.

The span runs Zi through You — Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster. The two animals missing from this decade are the Dog and the Pig, so anyone born 1960–1969 is neither. The same pairing recurs in the 2020s.

The closing branch You (Rooster) is pure Yin metal with a single hidden stem — the counterpart to the opening Zi in that respect. A decade bracketed by two single-stem branches is, in structural terms, bounded at both ends by positions with no internal compromise. It is a small observation, and it is the kind of thing that gets lost in a table covering 144 years.

For anyone born in the 1960s reading a current-year forecast: the branch that matters for Tai Sui comparisons is your birth year branch, and the decade table below gives it directly without requiring a calculation.

Questions about 1960–1969

What Chinese zodiac years are in the 1960s?
1960 Rat, 1961 Ox, 1962 Tiger, 1963 Rabbit, 1964 Dragon, 1965 Snake, 1966 Horse, 1967 Goat, 1968 Monkey and 1969 Rooster. The Dog and the Pig are absent from this decade.
What element is a 1964 birth year?
1964 is Jia-Chen, a Wood Dragon year. Jia is Yang Wood and Chen is Yang Earth, and Chen also stores Yi wood and Gui water as hidden stems.
What is a 1966 birth year in BaZi terms?
1966 is Bing-Wu: Yang Fire on a Yang Fire branch, one of the hottest year pillars in the sixty-year cycle. Wu contains only Ding fire and Ji earth, with no water to temper it.

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