1988 戊辰
Earth Dragon year
1988 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Earth Dragon
Quick answer
People born from February 4, 1988 through February 3, 1989 are Earth Dragons. (Born on February 4, 1988 itself? The exact boundary falls at a specific hour that day — a birth time settles it.) Born in 1988 before that date? You belong to the previous year — the Fire Rabbit.
The only mythical animal in the cycle, and Dragons live like they know it. Confident, vital, and born with a sense of destiny, they set standards others quietly adopt and lift the energy of any project they believe in. Dragons do not follow paths; they assume one will form underfoot. The shadow is scale: grand visions that skip the boring middle, and a pride that hears feedback as static. At their best, Dragons are weather systems — people plan around them, grow under their rain, and remember for years the season a Dragon believed in them.
The Earth year grounds it: more patience, more caretaking, ambition that measures itself in decades rather than seasons.
♥ In love
Generous, dazzling, occasionally exhausting. Dragons need admiration less than they need a partner unafraid to be their equal — that is the rare thing that holds them.
◆ At work
Natural founders, directors, and rainmakers. Dragons need a mission with real stakes and a lieutenant who loves the details they skip.
The Dragon temperament in full — love, career, trine allies and clashes — lives on the animal page.
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