The Monkey in 2026: no clash with the year’s Tai Sui (太岁)

All twelve signs against 2026’s Tai Sui (太岁)

Red: on the folk lists of signs that “offend” the year, Fan Tai Sui (犯太岁) — the same sign, or a clash, punishment, harm or break. Green: in harmony with the year — a pair (six harmony, Liu He, 六合) or one of a group of three (trine, San He, 三合) — which folk lists count as lucky. Grey: neither. These are fixed relations between the animals, not ratings.

The Monkey with each sign, from the classics: Rat · Ox · Tiger · Rabbit · Dragon · Snake · Horse · Goat · Monkey · Rooster · Dog · Pig

The Monkey, birth year by birth year

The animal is the same in every row: the Monkey against the Horse, with no clash, punishment, harm, break or harmony. What differs is the element: each birth year’s stem stands differently to 2026’s Yang Fire (丙), and the Stems column says how. The nayin is the birth year’s traditional image. Age is the age turned during 2026.

Double clash (Tian Ke Di Chong, 天克地冲): the stems control each other and the animals clash. Double bond (Tian He Di He, 天合地合): the stems bind and the animals pair. Same pillar: the year’s pillar is the birth year’s, sixty years on. These three are the combinations folk readings mention most; they are marked here, not judged.

What the classics read: the day pillar, not the sign

The Song-dynasty manual Yuan Hai Zi Ping (淵海子平) judges Tai Sui by the day pillar — the element and animal of the day you were born — against the year’s, in three ways: offending the year’s lord (Fan Sui Jun, 犯岁君), war (Zheng, 征), gloom (Hui, 晦). In 2026, 25 of the sixty day pillars are marked. Of the days in Monkey years from 1932 to 2016, about 42% fall on one of them — much the same as for every other sign. By the classical rule, your sign does not decide it.

The same work says to “look only at whether the chart holds help” (但看八字有无救助), so whether it matters is the whole chart’s question. Check your day pillar with the form above, or see the full list of marked day pillars for 2026.

The twelve months of 2026 against the Monkey’s branch, Shen (申)

How each month’s animal stands to the Monkey (申). Months run from one solar term (Jie, 节) to the next, UTC+8, not from new moon to new moon.

Famous Monkeys

Mao Dun (1896), Eileen Chang (1920), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Tsai Ing-wen (1956), Leslie Cheung (1956), Nicholas Tse (1980), Yao Ming (1980), Kim Kardashian (1980), Ding Liren (1992)

One sign, and a different day pillar each. Every page has that person’s pillars.