Year of the Horse: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Horse
Energetic, independent and forever in motion, the Horse loves the road more than the destination. Its challenge is staying when staying matters.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Horse are 2002, 2014 and 2026, with the next in 2038. Note the boundary carefully — the Chinese year starts at the Lunar New Year, between late January and late February, so a birth in the first weeks of a Horse year may actually belong to the previous sign, the Snake.
The Horse is the zodiac's traveler: energetic, independent and forever in motion, loving the road more than the destination. Its lesson is staying when staying matters. The year's element, from the steady Earth Horse to the blazing Fire Horse, sets the pace of that restlessness.
To find anyone's complete sign, use the calculator behind this page: it takes a birth date and returns the animal, the element and the yin-yang polarity, checked against exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043 — locally, in your browser.
Example. 2000-02-05 is a yang Metal Dragon, while 2000-02-04 is still a yin Earth Rabbit.
Limit. Exact Lunar New Year dates are tabulated only from 1924 through 2043; years outside that range fall back to the calendar year.