Losar animal
Tibetan astrology guide
Tibetan calendars use a twelve-year animal cycle too. Mouse, Ox, Tiger, and the rest, with element colors (Wood, Fire, Earth, Iron, and Water). Iron shows up instead of Metal. The new year is Losar (Tibetan New Year), not Chinese Spring Festival or January 1.
Same wrinkle as Chinese: your animal year switches at Losar, not January 1. A late-winter birthday might still belong to the previous animal.
Browse each animal below. Use the calculator with Losar date tables so you are not guessing from your passport year alone.
Calculators
Learn guides
- What Is Tibetan Astrology?Twelve animals, five elements, and why Losar matters more than January 1.
- Tibetan vs Indian Vedic AstrologyBirth-year animals and festival calendars sit beside star-based Moon, Moon mansion, and planet periods.
- All Tibetan guidesCurated articles and calculator links for this tradition.