Year of the Rabbit

The Rabbit personality

The Rabbit is the most refined and diplomatic of the twelve signs — gentle, gracious, and allergic to conflict. Rabbits move through life with a soft, elegant ease that puts everyone around them at peace. They are kind, considerate, and genuinely caring, the friend who remembers the small things and smooths over the rough edges of a room without anyone noticing they did it.

Beneath the calm exterior, the Rabbit is shrewder than it looks. They prefer harmony over confrontation, but that doesn't mean they're pushovers — Rabbits get what they want through tact, charm, and patience rather than force. They have refined taste, a love of beauty and comfort, and a strong instinct for self-preservation; they'll quietly withdraw from anything that threatens their peace.

At their best, Rabbits are warm, wise, and wonderfully calming — peacemakers who make life gentler. At their shadow they can be conflict-avoidant to a fault, overly cautious, or prone to retreating into comfort instead of facing a problem. The Rabbit's growth is learning that some things are worth a little discord to resolve.

Rabbit in love & compatibility

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In love the Rabbit is tender, attentive, and devoted, craving a calm, affectionate partnership free of drama. They give a great deal of care and need gentleness in return. They pair beautifully with the warm Goat, the steadfast Dog, and the easygoing Pig — all signs that share their dislike of conflict and their love of a peaceful home. The Rooster is the traditional clash, too blunt and critical for the sensitive Rabbit, and the Dragon's intensity can overwhelm them. A Rabbit rewards a kind partner with deep, lasting loyalty.

Rabbit career & money

Rabbits excel in environments that prize tact, taste, and harmony — diplomacy, law, counselling, design, public relations, medicine, education, and the arts. They are gifted mediators and negotiators who get results without making enemies, and their eye for quality serves them well in any creative or aesthetic field. With money they're prudent and security-minded, preferring steady comfort to risk. The watch-out is avoidance: Rabbits can sidestep hard conversations and tough decisions. They thrive when they pair their diplomacy with a little more nerve.

Lucky traits of the Rabbit

Wood is the Rabbit's fixed element, but where the Tiger channels Wood through bold Yang, the Rabbit channels the same growth through soft Yin — so its strength is gentle and steady rather than forceful, more a vine than a tree. That blend is where the Rabbit's love of beauty and quiet, patient progress come from. Lucky numbers 3, 4, and 6, and the colours red, pink, purple, and blue, are traditionally said to support a Rabbit's good fortune.

Recent & upcoming Rabbit years

The Rabbit comes around once every twelve years. If you were born in one of these years you're likely a Rabbit — though anyone born in January or early February should double-check against the exact Chinese New Year date, since the Rabbit year begins then, not on 1 January.

Recent years

Upcoming years

Frequently asked questions about the Rabbit