1982 壬戌
Water Dog year
1982 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Water Dog
Quick answer
People born from February 4, 1982 through February 3, 1983 are Water Dogs. (Born on February 4, 1982 itself? The exact boundary falls at a specific hour that day — a birth time settles it.) Born in 1982 before that date? You belong to the previous year — the Metal Rooster.
The Dog is loyalty with a conscience. Fair-minded, protective, and honest to the bone, Dogs are the ones who actually show up — at the airport, at the hospital, at the argument where you needed one person on your side. They smell injustice early and cannot un-smell it. The shadow is worry and pessimism: a watchfulness that never fully clocks out, and a tendency to rehearse betrayal before it happens. At their best, Dogs are the moral spine of their circle — not the loudest voice, but the one everyone checks their compass against.
The Water year softens and deepens it: more intuition, longer memory, strength that moves around obstacles instead of through them.
♥ In love
Devoted, steady, anxious in silence. A Dog needs reassurance spoken plainly and returns it a hundredfold in faithfulness.
◆ At work
Strong in justice-adjacent and guardian roles: law, medicine, security, nonprofits, HR done right. Cynical workplaces corrode a Dog faster than hard work ever could.
The Dog temperament in full — love, career, trine allies and clashes — lives on the animal page.
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