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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
Tiger Chinese zodiac
Your animal · 2022
Your animal: Water Tiger
Your animal · 2022

Water Tiger

ElementWater
Fixed elementWood
PolarityYang

The Tiger is brave, competitive, and confident. Tigers live boldly and inspire others with their passionate approach — and the year of the Tiger rewards a single audacious choice.

2026 for you

The Horse is among the Tiger's natural allies. Doors that were sticky in recent years tend to open more easily this cycle. Lean into collaborations, travel, and bold moves — the wind is at your back.

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
  • Courageous
  • Confident
  • Charismatic
Watch-outs
  • Impulsive
  • Aggressive
  • 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 past20222010199819861974196219501938
Upcoming203420462058

Harmonious with

Dragon
Dragon2024 · 2012 · 2000 · 1988
Horse
Horse2026 · 2014 · 2002 · 1990
Pig
Pig2019 · 2007 · 1995 · 1983

Tests with

Ox
Ox2021 · 2009 · 1997 · 1985
Snake
Snake2025 · 2013 · 2001 · 1989
Monkey
Monkey2016 · 2004 · 1992 · 1980

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 Pig. The bond is read as instinctive, long-term, low-drama: a person whose presence settles you, not excites you.

Pig
Pig2019 · 2007 · 1995 · 1983

Lucky elements

Numbers
1, 3, 4
Colors
Blue, Gray
Flower
Cineraria
Direction
East, South
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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