Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170101235836/@comment-25936766-20170103235238

PisceanWaterbender wrote:[I fit the Western Zodiac sign Pisces quite well, but Year of the Dragon is NOT me at all.] Perhaps not the year, but....here's a fun fact: The Chinese Zodiac doesn't follow just Years, like most people in the west believe. It also follows months, days, and hours.

This means you can be an A, B, C and D simultaneously. Each sign can be one of the following:

Year: "Year Animal".

Month: "Inner/Month Animal".

Day (of the week): "True Animal".

Hour: "Secret Animal".

While a person might appear to be a Dragon because they were born in the year of the Dragon, they might also be a Snake internally, an Ox truly, and a Goat secretively.

I've heard the Year Animal is only how you present yourself or how others see you.