Jade
Observatory
16 September 2026
Pig is number 12 in the 12-sign cycle. Pig years in 1924–2035 are 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031. Its most recent return is 2019; the next is 2031. Each begins at Chinese New Year, not 1 January.
The Pig is traditionally described as generous, sincere and easy-going, with a preference for exchanges that do not require elaborate pretence. Its strength is wholehearted participation: sharing what is available, giving a companion the benefit of the doubt and making ordinary pleasures feel worth noticing. Naivety and indulgence are the corresponding challenges, particularly when goodwill is offered without checking an expectation or when preserving an agreeable moment makes it harder to say that a limit has been reached.
The year stem changes on each twelve-year return; the Pig branch stays Water. An identical animal-and-element name returns after sixty years.
Wood extends the Pig's generosity into a wish to help people and shared ideas develop. Its easy-going nature is given a cooperative purpose, with encouragement offered freely and participation valued over competition. The challenge is giving beyond a sensible limit, especially when faith in another person's intention replaces a clear conversation about what each person can actually contribute.
Fire gives the Pig's sincerity a warmer, more demonstrative style, bringing enthusiasm to its enjoyment of company and shared experience. Generosity is expressed openly rather than left for a companion to infer. Its tension is excess: a wholehearted invitation can grow beyond what was intended, and an enjoyable moment may need a boundary before enthusiasm becomes an obligation.
Earth grounds the Pig's goodwill in practical care, making generosity something steady and usable rather than a passing impulse. The emphasis is on comfort that can be shared without elaborate display. The challenge is remaining open to necessary change, since an agreeable routine can become so easy to preserve that an unspoken difficulty is allowed to remain beneath it.
Metal gives the Pig's open-hearted manner firmer boundaries, pairing sincerity with a clearer account of what it is prepared to offer. Resolve helps a generous intention survive beyond its first warm expression. The difficult edge is fixed expectations: giving wholeheartedly can feel disappointing when another person expresses appreciation or returns support in a form different from the one imagined.
Water repeats the Pig branch's fixed element, placing receptiveness, easy rapport and a willingness to understand another person's experience at the centre of the portrait. Generosity is expressed through attention as much as through sharing things. The challenge is excessive trust, where an accommodating response arrives before there has been enough time to decide whether a request is reasonable.
All eleven pairings retain every named layer. Mixed means both support and tension; neutral means no named relation, not incompatibility.
Three Harmonies
The Rabbit's thoughtful approach meets the Pig's sincere goodwill within the Wood trine. Courtesy and generosity can reinforce one another, creating an exchange in which a careful invitation is met by a response that is warm rather than competitive.
Three Harmonies
The Goat's patient care and the Pig's open-handed generosity belong to the Wood trine. The traditional affinity centres on sharing and encouragement, combining a sensitive eye for what is needed with a wholehearted willingness to contribute.
Seasonal meeting
亥 Hai and 子 Zi meet through the relationships shown above.
Seasonal meeting
亥 Hai and 丑 Chou meet through the relationships shown above.
Six Harmonies (secret friend) · Destruction
The Tiger's protective confidence meets the Pig's open-hearted encouragement. Their secret-friend bond favours a generous response to boldness, although the simultaneous destruction layer keeps questions of follow-through visible rather than erasing them.
No named branch relation
亥 Hai and 辰 Chen are not joined by a named harmony or tension in these branch sets.
No named branch relation
亥 Hai and 午 Wu are not joined by a named harmony or tension in these branch sets.
No named branch relation
亥 Hai and 酉 You are not joined by a named harmony or tension in these branch sets.
No named branch relation
亥 Hai and 戌 Xu are not joined by a named harmony or tension in these branch sets.
Clash
The Snake's selective reserve contrasts with the Pig's ready openness. In their clash, one approach can find the other too guarded or too trusting, making the pace of disclosure a clearer point of difference than a general judgement about affection.
Harm
The Monkey's playful testing of an idea can meet the Pig's sincerity at an awkward angle. Their harm relation highlights the difference between exploring possibilities and taking a statement at face value, particularly when a joke sounds like a promise.
Compare full birth dates to add both year elements and Na Yin.
These popular traditional associations belong to the Pig portrait, regardless of the birth year's stem element.
These 6 full birthdays resolve to Pig at the Chinese New Year boundary. Each person's year-stem element identifies the variant.
The running Yang Fire Horse year lasts from 17 February 2026 to 5 February 2027.Pig last returned in 2019; its next animal year is 2031. The comparison for this year is between the Pig and Horse branches.
These two branches have no named relation in the sets shown here; that absence is neutral, not a negative verdict.
The animal's fixed coordinates
These coordinates belong to the branch, not the changing year stem.
Open a five-element chapter for exact New Year boundaries and year names.
