Find a zodiac sign and eto animal
Look up both the Western zodiac sign and the Japanese eto (十二支) animal from a birth date.
Tools used in this guide
The job
A birthday card, a profile, or a conversation about horoscopes. The Western zodiac divides the year into twelve signs by month and day; the Japanese eto assigns one of twelve animals to each year. A single date gives both.
How to do it
Pick the date and run the lookup. The tool shows the Western sign — Aries through Pisces — and the eto animal for that calendar year, years 1900–2100.
Worked example
Someone born on 20 March 1995 is a Pisces (the sign before the 21 March Aries boundary) born in a boar year — 1995 is 亥.
Limits
Cusp-day birthdays can be listed either way in different references — boundaries shift about a day between years and sources. The eto here follows the calendar year; the traditional change at Setsubun (around 4 February) means January and early-February births may appear under the previous animal elsewhere.