The Pig in 2026: no clash with the year’s Tai Sui (太岁)
2026 is the Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午). Its Tai Sui (太岁) — the star said to rule the year — sits with the Horse. The Pig and the Horse: they neither clash, punish, harm nor break each other, and do not pair. So the Pig is not on the folk lists of signs that “offend” the year, Fan Tai Sui (犯太岁).
Counted by sign, every Pig gets the same answer for the year — one person in twelve. Below they are split twice: by birth year, counting the element of the year as well as its animal, and then by the day pillar — the element and animal of the day you were born — which is what the classics actually read.
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 Pig with each sign, from the classics: Rat · Ox · Tiger · Rabbit · Dragon · Snake · Horse · Goat · Monkey · Rooster · Dog · Pig
The Pig, birth year by birth year
The animal is the same in every row: the Pig 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.
| Born | Pillar | Nayin | Age | Stems | Named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 乙亥Wood Pig | 山头火Fire on the Mountain | 91 | Wood produces Fire | |
| 1947 | 丁亥Fire Pig | 屋上土Earth on the Roof | 79 | both Fire | |
| 1959 | 己亥Earth Pig | 平地木Wood of the Plain | 67 | Fire produces Earth | |
| 1971 | 辛亥Metal Pig | 钗钏金Hairpin Metal | 55 | Fire and Metal bind | |
| 1983 | 癸亥Water Pig | 大海水Water of the Great Sea | 43 | Water controls Fire | |
| 1995 | 乙亥Wood Pig | 山头火Fire on the Mountain | 31 | Wood produces Fire | |
| 2007 | 丁亥Fire Pig | 屋上土Earth on the Roof | 19 | both Fire | |
| 2019 | 己亥Earth Pig | 平地木Wood of the Plain | 7 | Fire produces Earth |
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 Pig years from 1935 to 2019, 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 Pig’s branch, Hai (亥)
How each month’s animal stands to the Pig (亥). Months run from one solar term (Jie, 节) to the next, UTC+8, not from new moon to new moon.
| Month pillar | Begins | With the Pig |
|---|---|---|
| 庚寅Metal Tiger | 2026-02-04 | break, six harmony |
| 辛卯Metal Rabbit | 2026-03-05 | trine |
| 壬辰Water Dragon | 2026-04-05 | — |
| 癸巳Water Snake | 2026-05-05 | clash |
| 甲午Wood Horse | 2026-06-05 | — |
| 乙未Wood Goat | 2026-07-07 | trine |
| 丙申Fire Monkey | 2026-08-07 | harm |
| 丁酉Fire Rooster | 2026-09-07 | — |
| 戊戌Earth Dog | 2026-10-08 | — |
| 己亥Earth Pig | 2026-11-07 | same branch, punishment |
| 庚子Metal Rat | 2026-12-07 | — |
| 辛丑Metal Ox | 2027-01-05 | — |
Famous Pigs
Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Qian Xuesen (1911), Lee Kuan Yew (1923), Robert Kuok (1923), Anwar Ibrahim (1947), Lai Ching-te (1959), Elon Musk (1971), Pony Ma (1971), Nicol David (1983), Lin Dan (1983)
One sign, and a different day pillar each. Every page has that person’s pillars.
Does 2026 help you or not?
A sign is one character of the year pillar; a day pillar is two of the eight. What 2026 is to you means setting the Fire Horse (丙午) against all four pillars, which needs your birth time and place.
About this page
Same sign, clash, punishment, harm, break, six harmony and trine are fixed relations between branches; the year pillars, nayin, month pillars and solar-term moments are calendar arithmetic; the Tai Sui (太岁) section follows the Yuan Hai Zi Ping (淵海子平). There are no ratings here for money, love or career — a sign cannot give them.