Chinese New Year 2027 - The Year of Fortune Goat

2027 Chinese Red Fire Goat Year

2015 was the year of the Green Wood Goat. 12 years later, 2017 is the Red Fire Goat year. It's the 4724th Chinese year. The Chinese New Year Day is on February 6, 2027 in China's time zone. This day is a new moon day, and is the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system.

According to Chinese Astrology, the Year 2027 is the Red Fire Goat year. The first day of the Fire Goat year is on February 3, 2027. This day is different from Chinese New Year Day. The Chinese Astrology calendar doesn't use the Chinese Lunar calendar to build the astrology birth chart.

In the Chinese New Year of Sheep, Chinese always mention San-Yang-Kai-Tai , which means "Three Goats Start Fortune". Actually the term is from , which means "Three Yang Start Fortune". Chinese replace by . Both and are pronounced as Yang. is Sheep. is Male and is the word from Yin Yang.

San-Yang-Kai-Tai is from I Ching, which is the most profound foundation of Chinese philosophy. It states the natural phenomena of our universe, then applies it on people relationships in the family, organization, government and the nation. The nature rule of the universe (Dao) is Yin and Yang. I Ching uses the symbol of broken bar as Yin and the solid bar as Yang. Yin is female, cold, earth or down. Yang is male, hot, sky or up. In the morning, sky is hot and ground is still cold, which is the Little Yang is assigned. At noon, sky and ground are hot, which is Big Yang . In the evening, sky is cold and ground is still hot, which is Little Yin . At night, both sky and ground are cold, which is is Big Yin. Human live between sky and ground. By adding a human layer with Yin and Yang on those four symbols, they become Eight Trigrams (Ba Kua), which are Sky, Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain, Earth. That's natural phenomena in human's eyes. Combining two trigrams together, they become I Ching 64 Hexagrams.

One hexagram has 6 bars. When applying Yin and Yang on them, we have 12 hexagrams standing for 12 months. December is the first Yang growing from the ground. January has two Yang on the ground. February has three Yang on the ground. Full six Yang is in the May. The first Yin grows in June. Full Yin is in the November.

December	January	February	March	April	May

Earth Thunder	Earth Lake	Earth Sky	Thunder Sky	Lake Sky	Sky Heaven
1 Yang	2 Yang	3 Yang	4 Yang	5 Yang	Full Yang
Rat	Cow	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake

June	July	August	September	October	November

Sky Wind	Sky Mountain	Sky Earth	Wind Earth	Mountain Earth	Earth Ground
1 Yin	2 Yin	3 Yin	4 Yin	5 Yin	Full Yin
Horse	Sheep	Monkey	Chicken	Dog	Pig

Therefore, San-Yang-Kai-Tai is from Earth-Sky, which contains the meaning of peace, harmony and good fortune. The time is in Tiger Month, which starts around on February 4 each year. Chinese Lunar New Year usually is near on beginning date of Tiger month. becomes auspicious phase for Chinese New Year.

The Snake month is full of Yang. The Horse Month has five Yang. Sheep Month has four Yang. Yang is hot. In Chinese astrology, Snake, Horse and Sheep are in the Fire cycle. The Sheep is the last year of Fire cycle. 2028 will be Monkey Year, which is the Metal cycle. Therefore, 2027 is the turning point year. We need to review what we gained and lost in the past two years. In 2027, we need to prepare a new plan for 2028.

2027 Year of Goat - Enlightenment from I-Ching Hexagrams

Hexagram	Name	Interpretation
Sky-Mountain	Retreat	This is the sign the Sheep month. The basic meaning is retreat and perseverance power. Two Yin broken bars in the bottom of the sign stand for the enemies growing from the ground. We need to keep the distance away from those enemies (villains, inferiors, subordinates). We are not giving up. We want to discipline ourselves and plan for the future.
Sky-Earth	Standstill	If the enemies bring more gang in, then one more Yin broken bar appears. That means becomes , which stands for standstill, stagnation and obstruction. When villains failed to move things around, you will be asked to regain your position.
Thunder-Sky	Power	We need to give people of lesser ability opportunity. But if they cannot perform, then we can take over the job. One option is to turn upside down into , which means the power. The resurrection brings a greater power.
Wind-Earth	Observation	2015 is year of Wooden Sheep . The connected hexagram is Wind-Earth, which means observation. That tells us that to observe people's reaction, then take appropriate action.