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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
Dragon Chinese zodiac
Your animal · 2024
Your animal: Wood Dragon
Your animal · 2024

Wood Dragon

ElementWood
Fixed elementEarth
PolarityYang

The Dragon is powerful, ambitious, and fearless. Considered the luckiest sign, Dragons pursue excellence and inspire awe. The risk is overreach, but the cost of underreach is worse.

2026 for you

The Horse doesn't sit in particular harmony or conflict with the Dragon. 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
  • Ambitious
  • Energetic
  • Fearless
Watch-outs
  • Arrogant
  • Impatient
  • Inflexible

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 past20242012200019881976196419521940
Upcoming203620482060

Harmonious with

Rooster
Rooster2017 · 2005 · 1993 · 1981
Rat
Rat2020 · 2008 · 1996 · 1984
Monkey
Monkey2016 · 2004 · 1992 · 1980

Tests with

Ox
Ox2021 · 2009 · 1997 · 1985
Goat
Goat2015 · 2003 · 1991 · 1979
Dog
Dog2018 · 2006 · 1994 · 1982

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

Rooster
Rooster2017 · 2005 · 1993 · 1981

Lucky elements

Numbers
1, 6, 7
Colors
Gold, Silver
Flower
Bleeding Heart
Direction
East, North
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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