2014: Year of the Wood Horse
Chinese Zodiac
If you were born in 2014 on or after January 31, 2014, your Chinese zodiac sign is the Wood Horse. People born before January 31, 2014 in 2014 belong to the prior zodiac year. Wood Horses tend to be energetic, independent, adventurous, free-spirited.
Animal
🐴 Horse
Element
Wood
Traits
Energetic, independent, adventurous, free-spirited
Compatibility
Best with Tiger, Goat, Dog. Challenging with Rat.
The Horse
The Horse is the free spirit of the Chinese zodiac... the animal that represents the pure joy of movement, independence, and the open horizon. Horse energy is energetic, adventurous, and genuinely infectious... when a Horse enters a room, the energy level rises. In Chinese culture, the Horse symbolizes speed, perseverance, and the travel that broadens the mind. People born in Horse years tend to be naturally active and sociable... they crave experience, resist confinement, and possess an enthusiasm that draws others into their adventures. The shadow side of Horse energy is a restlessness that can become inability to commit... the same freedom-loving spirit that makes life exciting can also make it hard to stay with anything long enough to see it through. Horses are most fulfilled when they find freedom within commitment rather than treating them as opposites.
The Wood Horse
Wood gives the Horse's gallop a direction worth running. The Horse is freedom and motion, energy that has to move, but motion without aim is just a lot of dust. Wood hands it a horizon ... the Wood Horse runs toward something, channels its considerable vitality into growth and adventure that actually builds, brings other people along on the ride. This is the free spirit as inspiration, the one whose momentum lifts a whole group because it is clearly headed somewhere good. You trust the Wood Horse because its freedom has a purpose you can see. The shadow is Wood's tendency to branch everywhere meeting the Horse's tendency to bolt. The Wood Horse can take off in nine directions at once, each one promising, none of them ridden to the end ... the adventurer who starts every journey and finishes few, scattering its lovely energy across more roads than any one life can travel. The freedom becomes flightiness with a noble justification attached. The vitality is real. The question is whether it ever arrives anywhere, or just keeps discovering new places to start running.
When does this year start?
The Chinese New Year began on January 31, 2014, and this zodiac year ran through February 18, 2015. If you were born before January 31, 2014, your Chinese zodiac sign is the Water Snake — not the Wood Horse.
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