Movie · United States
The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back deepened the Star Wars saga with a darker tone and an iconic plot twist.
Release, May 21, 1980: Monkey year.
Themes: epic, conflict, revelation, myth.
- In black, the sign of The Empire Strikes Back: Monkey.
- The red triangle links it with its two friends: Rat and Dragon.
- The dotted line crosses to its opposite: Tiger.
Your affinity
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The origin
What the date says
- Milestone
- Release
- What happened
- The Empire Strikes Back opens in U.S. theaters.
- Date
- May 21, 1980
- Source
- Lucasfilm / 20th Century Fox
- Note
- Released on May 21, 1980. Directed by Irvin Kershner.
Record with an exact date: the sign can be stated with certainty.
The sign
The Chinese sign of The Empire Strikes Back: Monkey
Release on May 21, 1980, in the year of the Monkey in the Chinese calendar. On Molino, affinity is measured sign against sign: yours, according to your date of birth, against that of The Empire Strikes Back.
- Same sign: Monkey
- You resonate most with The Empire Strikes Back if you were born between Feb 6, 1932 and Jan 25, 1933; Jan 25, 1944 and Feb 12, 1945; Feb 12, 1956 and Jan 30, 1957; Jan 30, 1968 and Feb 16, 1969; Feb 16, 1980 and Feb 4, 1981; Feb 4, 1992 and Jan 22, 1993; Jan 22, 2004 and Feb 8, 2005 or Feb 8, 2016 and Jan 27, 2017.
- Its two friends (三合 San He): Rat y Dragon
- It also resonates with people born in years of the Rat or Dragon: Rat, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008; Dragon, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012.
- Its enemy (六冲 Liu Chong): Tiger
- The opposite energy. If you were born in a year of the Tiger (1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010), the one with The Empire Strikes Back is the relationship best avoided.
The Chinese year starts between January 21 and February 21: if you were born in those weeks, check the exact range on your sign's page.
In the Atlas
Also Monkey in United States
The 3 entries in the Atlas of United States whose origin falls in a Monkey year, like The Empire Strikes Back.
In the Atlas
From the same Chinese year: Monkey of 1980
Atlas entries dated within the same Chinese calendar year as The Empire Strikes Back, those from United States first.
Keep in mind
Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.