What’s your luck like in February 2025, the Earth Tiger Month? Chinese horoscopes for health, wealth, work and love as we enter the transformative Year of the Yin Wood Snake

Feb 7 , 2025

What’s your luck like in February 2025, the Earth Tiger Month? Chinese horoscopes for health, wealth, work and love as we enter the Year of the Yin Wood Snake. Photo: SCMP Graphic

This is your month if you’re a Tiger like Lady Gaga and Tom Cruise … while Snakes should play it safe – but did you know that babies born before February 4 take their sign from the previous year?

The first month of the 2025 Chinese calendar is represented by the Earth Tiger, Wu Yin.

We have officially left the Year of the Yang Wood Dragon behind to embrace the Yin Wood Snake. In Chinese astrology, the Snake is synonymous with wisdom, elegance, and more than a touch of mysticism. February brings a shift in energy – a month of renewal, deep emotions, and powerful cosmic alignments that could shape your path in unexpected ways. You may be sensitive this month on certain days that align with your soul; embrace such days as this is when the universe will send you signals, opening doors to new possibilities, and offering moments of clarity, transformation and abundance.

It is now a Yin Wood Snake Year, associated with transformation and renewal. Photo: Shutterstock

Physically, the spring qi (wind – feng) wood energy governs the organ systems and meridian functions of the liver, gall bladder and tendons (our treelike flexibility), as well as rhythms of nature. Emotionally it is protective, offering us boundaries of desire and motivation. Our emotional responses come from this element. During the month, expect to regain your mojo and inspiration; if you feel you need more time to set action in motion, do so this month as rushing ahead during this season increases the potential for accidents and setbacks, so be gentle with yourself and go with the flow.

Chinese astrology is based on the following three theories and principles: a combination of yin and yang; the five elements: fire, earth, metal, water and wood; and the 12 zodiac animals.

Tiger Month: February 4 – March 5, 2025

Elements of the month: yang earth and wood

Essence of the Tiger: reverence, courage, protection, nobility

Hear the Tiger roar in this first month of the Snake Year!

February 2025 is the Tiger Month. Photo: Shutterstock

When it comes to feng shui and Chinese astrology (bazi), February 4 on the solar calendar – not the first day of the Lunar New Year on the lunar calendar (unless it happens to fall on February 4) – marks the first day of the year. The solar calendar relates to the timeliness of the seasons and is based on one of oldest forms of the study of nature, known as the Farmers’ Calendar. Babies born before February 4 in any year take their sign from the previous year.

The first day of the Chinese zodiac year is the start of spring and the first day of the Tiger Month, which is when the sun enters the 315th degree on the tropical zodiac. In China Standard Time, the start of spring is on February 3, 2025, at 10.11pm.