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CHINESE ZODIAC · 2026

Find your Chinese zodiac animal

Enter your birth date and meet your animal, your element, and how 2026 (the Year of the Horse) reads for you.

2026 — YEAR OF THE HORSEFire · Horse
Monkey Chinese zodiac
Your animal · 2016
Your animal: Fire Monkey
Your animal · 2016

Fire Monkey

ElementFire
Fixed elementMetal
PolarityYang

The Monkey is witty, intelligent, and versatile. Monkeys solve problems through creativity and lateral leaps — the funny answer that turns out to be right.

2026 for you

The Horse doesn't sit in particular harmony or conflict with the Monkey. A year for steady work — your usual rhythms continue without dramatic external push or pull. Build slowly, finish what you started.

Ask the I Ching about this year

Your zodiac animal describes the pattern you were born under. The I Ching is different: it answers the moment you are in now, through yin and yang changing into a hexagram.

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Personality

Strengths
  • Quick-witted
  • Versatile
  • Sociable
Watch-outs
  • Cunning
  • Jealous
  • Restless

Years that share your animal

In a 12-year cycle, the same animal returns. If you know someone's birth year, you can check the list below — these are all years that carry your sign.

Recent past20162004199219801968195619441932
Upcoming202820402052

Harmonious with

Ox
Ox2021 · 2009 · 1997 · 1985
Rabbit
Rabbit2023 · 2011 · 1999 · 1987

Tests with

Tiger
Tiger2022 · 2010 · 1998 · 1986
Pig
Pig2019 · 2007 · 1995 · 1983

Your secret friend (六合)

Beyond the harmonious trio, classical Chinese astrology gives every animal one deepest 1-on-1 partner — the secret friend (六合, liù hé). Yours is the Snake. The bond is read as instinctive, long-term, low-drama: a person whose presence settles you, not excites you.

Snake
Snake2025 · 2013 · 2001 · 1989

Lucky elements

Numbers
4, 9
Colors
White, Blue
Flower
Chrysanthemum
Direction
North, West
All 12 Chinese zodiac signs
Compare animal archetypes, fixed elements, polarity, allies, watch-outs, and lucky colors.

Note: Chinese New Year falls in late January or early February. Births in January or early February may belong to the previous Chinese year — adjust your year by −1 if you were born before that year's Lunar New Year.

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