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bradietilley/carbon-zodiac
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Chinese zodiac helpers for the Carbon date library

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Carbon Zodiac
=============

[](#carbon-zodiac)

Chinese zodiac helpers for the Carbon date library — resolve Gregorian dates to zodiac year, sign, and element.

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Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Full documentation is available at [bradietilley.dev/carbon-zodiac](https://bradietilley.dev/carbon-zodiac).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require bradietilley/carbon-zodiac
```

```
use BradieTilley\Zodiac\Zodiac;
use Carbon\Carbon;

Zodiac::boot(); // automatic in Laravel via service provider

$date = Carbon::parse('1970-02-06');

$date->zodiacYear();    // Year
$date->zodiacSign();    // Sign::DOG
$date->zodiacElement(); // Element::METAL

$result = $date->zodiac();
$result->year;    // Year
$result->sign;    // Sign::DOG
$result->element; // Element::METAL
```

See the [documentation](https://bradietilley.dev/carbon-zodiac) for years, signs, elements, limitations, and sources.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Bradie Tilley](https://github.com/bradietilley)

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance74

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~582 days

Total

3

Last Release

26d ago

Major Versions

1.0.0 → v2.0.02024-02-10

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44430471?v=4)[Bradie Tilley](/maintainers/bradietilley)[@bradietilley](https://github.com/bradietilley)

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Top Contributors

[![bradietilley](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44430471?v=4)](https://github.com/bradietilley "bradietilley (62 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StyleLaravel Pint

Type Coverage Yes

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