2028 Monkey Zodiac Forecast
2028 · Year of the Earth Monkey
Monkey
Birth years marked in red are “Pressed by the Tai Sui” — tap one to read what to avoid.
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Your sector: Southwest · Star 5 - Disaster
- Lead with happy events — marriage, a child, a home — and hold your course
- Get checked, review your insurance, give big decisions an extra week
- No major investments or sharp pivots, and keep your moods level
- Avoid risky activities and abrupt upheavals — moving, quitting cold, going all-in
Earth Monkey year, your own zodiac year: hold your ground rather than attack, stay low-key and steady to pass through safely
In 2028, the year of the Earth Monkey, friends born under the Monkey are entering their own zodiac year. The overall tone of the year is "holding ground": being low-key and grounded serves you better than showing off. Your own zodiac year means that this year's annual earthly branch, Monkey, is exactly the earthly branch of your own zodiac sign, which is equivalent to you sitting on the same side as the Tai Sui. Your every move is right under the Tai Sui's gaze, so emotions, health and relationships are all especially easy to be magnified. When you feel restless or impatient, remind yourself all the more to stay calm. This year no auspicious stars take up residence, yet inauspicious stars press in one after another, so the main theme of the year is self-reliance: walking through this year by your own rhythm and judgement rather than waiting for outside help. On the inauspicious side, the Sword Edge star governs cuts, stab wounds and matters involving blades and needles. Sharing a palace with the Tai Sui, you must be especially careful with minor surgery, sharp tools, and the kitchen and tool room. The Hidden Corpse star, which brings old ailments and hidden injuries to the surface, reminds you not to let small bodily signals drag on into serious illness; getting a health check early will actually put your mind at ease. Your own zodiac year is suited to patching up old problems one by one, tidying up the matters in your hands, and standing firm before talking about anything else. On the flying star side, this year the most inauspicious of the nine stars, 5 Yellow (Calamity), a great earth-element malefic, flies right into the Monkey sector that corresponds to your zodiac sign. It governs serious illness, major disaster, accidents and significant financial loss, and is the direction most in need of calm handling this year.
Strategically, please remember the key word "hold". This is not a year for opening up new frontiers. Major investments, job changes, starting a business or relocating should be postponed if they can be. Put your energy into steadying what is already in your hands and clearing up old accounts. For the Sword Edge star, you can actively neutralise it by "meeting the disaster" in a controlled way: arrange a teeth cleaning, donate blood, or complete on schedule the necessary minor surgery you have already planned, letting the flash of the blade happen in a manageable form. When cooking, using sharp tools, exercising or driving, slow down your pace: better slow than rushed. For the Hidden Corpse star, please treat this year as a year of major maintenance for your body. Arrange a full health check and a dental check-up, and go back for follow-ups on old conditions when you should, without further delay. Financially, your own zodiac year already brings considerable drain, and passive expenses tend to leak away bit by bit. It is advisable to channel the money that would flow away into useful places: replace ageing appliances and wiring, cancel automatic deductions and subscriptions you no longer use, and set aside a small fixed monthly donation, turning passive loss into active merit. The most reliable person this year is yourself. For major decisions, it is better to sleep on them for another night than to make a hasty call. As for direction, this year the Tai Sui sits in the Monkey sector of West-Southwest towards West (roughly between 232.5° and 247.5° on the compass). Please arrange your desk, chair and the head of your bed so that this sector is behind you or to your side. Avoid sitting or sleeping facing directly towards this sector for long periods. After the Start of Spring, you may choose a quiet morning to stand facing this direction for a short while with a grateful heart to pay your respects. Those with the habit of paying respects to the Tai Sui may also go to a temple to pay respects and pray for blessings. The Monkey sector that corresponds to your zodiac sign is also this same sector, and this year it is exactly where 5 Yellow (Calamity) flies in. This sector should be kept still rather than active: the fewer objects, the brighter the light and the better the ventilation, the better. For the whole year, avoid nailing walls, drilling holes or making large moves of heavy furniture in this sector. For remedy, please choose pure copper six-emperor coins or a copper bell and let them rest quietly in this sector. Since 5 Yellow belongs to earth, use metal to drain earth: metal is produced by earth and is best able to carry off its inauspicious energy with the flow. The brass gourd mainly resolves the 2 Black sickness energy and is weaker at suppressing 5 Yellow, so the two should not be mixed. If this sector happens to be the main door or the toilet, you may add a white curtain as a soft screening buffer, complementing the direct neutralising power of the six-emperor coins.
A zodiac forecast reads only one of the eight characters in your BaZi chart — the year branch — so it gives a general direction, far less precise than analysing the full chart. The year's Tai Sui also interacts with your month, day and hour branches, not just the year: even if your birth year isn't the one clashing or harming Tai Sui, another pillar carrying that branch feels the same influence.
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Frequently asked questions
Does the Monkey offend the Tai Sui in 2028?
Yes. In 2028 the Monkey is "Own Year" with the Monkey year's Tai Sui (Grand Duke Jupiter), so a steadier, more careful approach is advised. See the remedies above.
Which directions should the Monkey avoid in 2028?
Like every sign, avoid facing or renovating the Tai Sui's direction (Southwest), the Year Breaker (Northeast) and the Triple Threat (South) in 2028.
Which birth years are the Monkey?
1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016. If you were born before the Start of Spring (around February 4), you belong to the previous year's sign.