Year of the Rabbit: Fortune, Personality, Horoscope (2025)
Rabbit is the 4th animal in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac signs, coming after the Tiger and before the Dragon. Recent years of the Rabbit include 2023, 2011, 1999, 1987, 1975, 1963, and 1951, with the next Rabbit year in 2035 (Year of the Wood Rabbit). Rabbits are associated with the earthly branch symbol mǎo.
The Rabbit is open and optimistic, sensitive and imaginative, and enjoys the comfortable side of life. They’re not the bravest of the zodiacs and may become neurotic if they choose to dwell on their emotions.
Chinese Zodiac Years for Rabbit
The 12 Chinese zodiac animal signs are based on the Chinese lunar calendar (often used in traditional Chinese culture), which doesn’t correspond exactly with the Gregorian calendaring system. Use our zodiac sign calculator below to find your animal sign.
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To find your Chinese astrology zodiac animal, pay particular attention to the beginning date of Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year. This is especially important if you were born in January or February, as your animal may be from the last year (use the chart below to find where your lunar month falls).
Chart of Years, Dates, and Elements for Rabbit Zodiac Signs
Rabbit Year | Lunar Year Start Date | Lunar Year End Date | Element |
|---|---|---|---|
1927 | February 2, 1927 | January 22, 1928 | Fire |
1939 | February 19, 1939 | February 8, 1940 | Earth |
1951 | February 6, 1951 | January 26, 1952 | Metal |
1963 | January 25, 1963 | February 12, 1964 | Water |
1975 | February 11, 1975 | January 30, 1976 | Wood |
1987 | January 29, 1987 | February 16, 1988 | Fire |
1999 | February 16, 1999 | February 4, 2000 | Earth |
2011 | February 3, 2011 | January 22, 2012 | Metal |
2023 | January 22, 2023 | February 9, 2024 | Water |
2035 | February 8, 2035 | January 27, 2036 | Wood |
Rabbit’s 2025 Horoscope (Year of the Snake)
Rabbits can look forward to a prosperous 2025, particularly in career advancement and financial stability. Although health and home may need extra care, your overall fortune is set to improve significantly compared to the past two years. Rely on your Guiren for support to ensure a smooth and successful year.
Read more: Rabbit’s 2025 Forecast (Love, Career, Wealth, Health)
Personality Traits of Rabbit Signs
Rabbits are elegant, imaginative, and courteous to others—even their enemies—because they hate any kind of conflict. They possess a keen perception of reality, which makes Rabbits the ultimate adapters to the real world.
Unexpectedly, Rabbits are savvy in business and financial transactions and are good at finding win-win solutions in complex situations. They adore an abundant lifestyle and prefer not to be stressed out most of the time.
Rabbits are earnest with everything they do; they just ask that others treat them the same way.
Rabbits won’t tolerate a boring life. They’ll continuously create interest in life, hopping from one excitement to the next, so they’re not the best at delving into any subject for an extended period of time.
The Rabbit personality can be overly cautious and jumpy. When a Rabbit is feeling down, may have the tendency to escape from reality. A key lesson for Rabbits is how to manage their emotions so that they can thrive.
Rabbit Strengths
The Rabbit’s greatest strengths include their gentle nature, keen intelligence, natural zest, and sincere modesty. Rabbits are cheerful to be around and passionate in a way that makes their partner feel like a million bucks.
They’re also analytical and great gatherers of knowledge and information. Although Rabbits are shrewd negotiators, their less competitive and more diplomatic nature ensures that everyone will be happy with the outcome in the Rabbit’s favor.
Rabbit Weaknesses
Despite Rabbits’ peace-loving appearance, they can also be paranoid on occasion, even capable of becoming hysterical. If they feel jealous romantically or snubbed unfairly at work, their internal conflict may rise to a nuclear level.
When this happens, Rabbits can become defensive out of an innate need for self-protection. If they feel betrayed, they will turn on that person with a coldness that no one would’ve believed Rabbit capable of.
Rabbit Zodiacs and the Five Elements Theory
The Chinese Five Elements Theory assigns one of the five elements—Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth—to each year, in addition to the zodiacs. So Rabbits born in different years will have different personalities.
Lucky (and Unlucky) Things for Rabbits
Rabbit’s luck is associated with green and yellow, 0, 6 and 2, and the direction of east. Black, 5 and 9, and living in mountainous regions, especially to the west, won’t bring great luck to Rabbits and should be avoided.
In Chinese culture, your zodiac birth year, or Ben Ming Nian, is considered unlucky, so be sure to wear red colors in the Year of the Rabbit to ward off any bad luck.
Lucky Things
Lucky numbers: 0, 6, 2
Lucky colors: Green, Yellow
Lucky directions: East
Lucky flowers: Bamboo, Cyclamen
Unlucky Things
Unlucky numbers: 5, 9
Unlucky colors: Black
Unlucky directions: West
Love and Compatibility for Rabbits
In matters of the heart, Rabbits start out suspicious of others’ motives, since their cautious nature means that many of their ideas and understanding of the world—whether real or imaginary—tend toward the negative.
Once they truly fall in love for the first time, they’ll learn to be honest with their feelings without being defensive. In many ways, true love will be the beginning of Rabbits’ farewell to loneliness.
❤️ Best Match: Rabbit and Goat
Rabbit and Goat, the softies of the 12 zodiacs, delight in their partner’s good nature and gentle temperament, and then curiously, they find strength and courage in the power of love to take on the world.
Isn’t the meaning of love to make both partners the most expansive versions of themselves? That’s why at home where they feel safe, these two will share a pure, restorative, and nearly innocent love.
❤️ Best Match: Rabbit and Pig
This will likely be the most supportive and warm relationship Rabbit and Pig have ever experienced, and both partners will marvel at their luck in finding the perfect mate for many years to come.
Rabbit has always been skittish because they feel uneasy in the world, which Pig’s laid back manner goes a long way to assuage. In return, Rabbit can add a certain charm and sparkle to Pig’s life.
❤️ Best Match: Rabbit and Dog
Neither Rabbit or Dog is flashy or self-important. Where some relationships have one diva and one humble servant; in this one, both partners are equal in how humble and how loving they are to each other.
It’s worth noting that this pairing may make both complacent, which is fine if neither aspires to more—but if you do, it would be a bad idea to give up your dreams for love.
Worst Matches: Rooster, Dragon
Rabbit and Rooster: This isn’t an ideal match for love or marriage because Rooster and Rabbit look at the world in such fundamentally different ways that even as colleagues, they are likely to clash, not to mention love.
As romantic partners, they’re bound to fight over every detail of their shared life. Rooster finds Rabbit vain, while Rabbit finds Rooster selfish. Neither will notice the other’s better qualities, making this an exhausting pairing.
Rabbit and Dragon: Rabbit can’t be themselves with Dragon as their mate because Dragon picks on Rabbit for being careless and complacent, resigning Rabbit to loneliness within the relationship until it becomes too much for this gentle creature.
Their personalities clash because Dragon is decisive and overwrought, always wanting to press things forward relentlessly, which tires Rabbit out, while Rabbit is quiet and sensitive with a rich emotional life that Dragon will ignore.
Careers Fit for the Chinese Zodiac Rabbit
Rabbits are wise in thought and action. They may appear vain at a glance, but people will soon find out how wrong their first impression was when Rabbits impress everyone by getting their hands dirty.
They’re cautious with money—making them excellent finance professionals—but Rabbits can certainly also be wildly creative with their quick and agile imagination, making them suitable for work related to literature, art, architecture, and music.
Rabbits are not suited for anything that takes a long time, as focus is not their strong suit. They’ll find anything that obliges them to decide between right and wrong distasteful since they dislike confrontation.
Best careers for Rabbits
Finance
Artist
Architecture
Public Relations
Teacher
Worst careers for Rabbits
Lawyer
Politics
Speculative Investment
Manual Labor
Researcher
Health and Lifestyle Advice for Rabbits
As a wood zodiac, Rabbit is blessed with natural physical vitality, although in return, they’ll likely struggle more than others in terms of emotional and psychological health, often suffering from neuroticism or anxiety throughout life.
Your natural sensitivity is your strength and weakness, as it’ll help if you wish to be an artist or at least help your communication, but don’t let it stop you from progressing in life, Rabbit!
Rabbit and the 12 Zodiac Animals (Origin Story)
Myth and legend have it that Rabbit became the fourth zodiac in the Chinese culture because it participated in a celestial race with its swift thinking and action. Are you curious about the Rabbit’s zodiac origin story?
At the beginning of time, the Jade Emperor, who governed the heavens, decided to hold a race across a celestial river to decide which animals would be honored by the people as the 12 zodiacs.
Rabbit wasn’t expected to have a place among the chosen 12 at all since it was neither strong nor a quick swimmer. But like the Rat that jumped inside the Ox’s ear, the Rabbit cleverly hopped from the other animals’ backs to pass the Dragon and Snake, cross the finish line, and win fourth place!
Famous People Born in the Year of the Rabbit
Rabbits are clever and agreeable, often making them celebrities very popular and well-liked by the public.
Robin Williams: July 21, 1951, Metal Rabbit
Ian McKellen: May 25, 1939, Earth Rabbit
Angelina Jolie: June 4, 1975, Wood Rabbit
Blake Lively: August 25, 1987, Fire Rabbit
Michael Jordan: February 17, 1963, Water Rabbit
David Beckham: May 2, 1975, Wood Rabbit
Queen Victoria: May 24, 1819, Earth Rabbit
Johnny Depp: June 9, 1963, Water Rabbit