TL;DR: In the year Đinh Mùi 2027, everyone born in a Goat year meets the year of one's own sign (trực Thái Tuế) and the third year of Tam tai for the Pig, Rabbit and Goat group. By the method of dividing tuổi mụ by 9, only two birth years fall foul of Kim Lâu of the self: 1955 (73 tuổi mụ) and 1991 (37 tuổi mụ). The ruling star according to Cửu Diệu changes with birth year and gender. All three are conventions of folk numerology, not predictions.
Which misfortunes do people born in the Year of the Goat face in 2027?
Everyone born in a Goat year faces two shared misfortunes: the year of one's own sign (trực Thái Tuế) and the third year of Tam tai. Kim Lâu falls only on two birth years, 1955 and 1991. The ruling star changes according to birth year and gender.
2027 is the year Đinh Mùi, with nạp âm Thiên Hà Thủy. People born in a Goat year meet their own Goat branch again.
Lookup table by birth year for Goat years in 2027
Tuổi mụ (nominal age) is the viewing year minus the birth year plus one. Kim Lâu is calculated by dividing tuổi mụ by 9. The ruling star follows the Cửu Diệu cycle, calculated from tuổi mụ and gender.
| Birth year | Can chi | Nạp âm | Tuổi mụ 2027 | Kim Lâu | Ruling star for men | Ruling star for women |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Quý Mùi | Wood of the Willow | 85 | No (remainder 4) | Thái Bạch | Thái Âm |
| 1955 | Ất Mùi | Gold in the Sand | 73 | Kim Lâu of the self (remainder 1) | La Hầu | Kế Đô |
| 1967 | Đinh Mùi | Water of the Milky Way | 61 | No (remainder 7) | Kế Đô | Thái Dương |
| 1979 | Kỷ Mùi | Fire in the Sky | 49 | No (remainder 4) | Thái Bạch | Thái Âm |
| 1991 | Tân Mùi | Earth by the Roadside | 37 | Kim Lâu of the self (remainder 1) | La Hầu | Kế Đô |
| 2003 | Quý Mùi | Wood of the Willow | 25 | No (remainder 7) | Kế Đô | Thái Dương |
| 2015 | Ất Mùi | Gold in the Sand | 13 | No (remainder 4) | Thái Bạch | Thái Âm |
All seven birth years are in their year of one's own sign and the third year of Tam tai, so the table does not repeat those two columns.
Kim Lâu in 2027: why do only 1955 and 1991 fall foul of it?
Divide tuổi mụ by 9: a remainder of 1, 3, 6 or 8 means falling foul of Kim Lâu, called respectively Kim Lâu of the self, Kim Lâu of the spouse, Kim Lâu of the children and Kim Lâu of the livestock. Tuổi mụ 73 and 37 both leave a remainder of 1 when divided by 9, so people born in 1955 and 1991 fall foul of Kim Lâu of the self. The other five birth years leave a remainder of 4 or 7 and do not fall foul of it.
In folk custom, Kim Lâu is mainly considered when building a house or arranging a marriage, not as a misfortune for the whole year. People who fall foul of Kim Lâu and want to build a house often borrow another person's age to perform the groundbreaking.
Not every book divides by 9. The book Vạn sự bất cầu nhân places Kim Lâu according to the eight trigram palaces, starting from age 10 in the Chấn palace, and records age 13 in the Khảm palace as kim lâu[2]. So people born in 2015 do not fall foul of it by the divide-by-9 method, but do fall foul of it by that book's method.
Which year of Tam tai is the Goat year for people born in a Goat year?
2027 is the third, that is the final, year of Tam tai for the Pig, Rabbit and Goat age group. This group meets Tam tai for three consecutive years: Tỵ (2025), Ngọ (2026) and Mùi (2027). The book Phong thủy thực hành trong xây dựng và kiến trúc nhà ở by Vũ Đức Huynh records that the three ages Pig, Rabbit and Goat fall foul of tam tai in the years Tỵ, Ngọ and Mùi, so there is no "age for building a house"[1].
Tam tai is a misfortune of a whole group of three ages, so in 2027 people born in a Pig year and a Rabbit year are also in the third year of Tam tai, just like people born in a Goat year. Some places avoid building a house or arranging a marriage throughout all three years; others treat Tam tai as just one misfortune to weigh alongside the others.
What does the 2027 year of one's own sign mean for people born in a Goat year?
A year that repeats the branch of one's birth year is called the year of one's own sign, or trực Thái Tuế. Also in 2027, people born in an Ox year clash with and punish the Grand Duke, people born in a Dog year punish and break the Grand Duke, and people born in a Rat year harm the Grand Duke.
In folk custom, the year of one's own sign is mentioned as a year to be careful, not a year certain to bring bad things. The method for calculating the list of those ages is in the article Tam Tai and Thái Tuế in the 2027 Đinh Mùi Year: Which Zodiac Signs Are Affected, How the List Is Calculated, and Where Schools of Thought Disagree.
Which stars rule the fate of men and women born in a Goat year in 2027?
The ruling star according to Cửu Diệu changes with tuổi mụ and gender, so people of the same Goat age each have a different star according to birth year.
- Men born in 1955 and 1991: La Hầu. Women born in the same years: Kế Đô.
- Men born in 1967 and 2003: Kế Đô. Women born in the same years: Thái Dương (Sun).
- Men born in 1943, 1979 and 2015: Thái Bạch. Women born in the same years: Thái Âm (Moon).
In folk custom, La Hầu, Kế Đô and Thái Bạch are considered bad stars, while Thái Dương (Sun) and Thái Âm (Moon) are good stars. The Cửu Diệu cycle differs from the ruling stars in a Tử Vi (Vietnamese astrology) chart, so the two systems can give two different results for the same person.
Nhật Nguyệt's suggestion
Nhật Nguyệt's suggestion: people born in 1955 and 1991 who plan to build a house or arrange a marriage in 2027 can look at Kim Lâu together with the construction schedule, permits and finances, because those are what decide whether the work can go ahead. The year of one's own sign and Tam tai are shared by every Goat age, so they are not in themselves a reason for one person to postpone a major undertaking more than another.
