The Year of the Pig, Personality, Compatibility & Fortune
Warm, generous, and authentic, the zodiac's good-hearted realist.
Fixed element means the element and polarity that belong to the Pig itself, in every year. It is a separate thing from the element of your birth year, which changes on a 60 year cycle and is what gives each of the Pig sign names below its Yin or Yang.
Were you born in a Pig year?
Find your birth year below. The date matters: a Pig year does not start on 1 January, so anyone born in the weeks before that year's Chinese New Year belongs to the sign before it. Each year links to a full page for that exact sign.
| Year | Sign | Year begins | Born before that date? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Wood Pig | February 4 | You are a Wood Dog |
| 1947 | Fire Pig | January 22 | You are a Fire Dog |
| 1959 | Earth Pig | February 8 | You are a Earth Dog |
| 1971 | Metal Pig | January 27 | You are a Metal Dog |
| 1983 | Water Pig | February 13 | You are a Water Dog |
| 1995 | Wood Pig | January 31 | You are a Wood Dog |
| 2007 | Fire Pig | February 18 | You are a Fire Dog |
| 2019 | Earth Pig | February 5 | You are a Earth Dog |
| 2031 | Metal Pig | January 23 | You are a Metal Dog |
| 2043 | Water Pig | February 10 | You are a Water Dog |
The Pig in the year ahead
Each lunar year lands differently on each sign, depending on how that year's animal and element sit with your own. Read the full year-by-year forecast for the Pig:
Personality of the Pig
The Pig (also called Boar) is deep, flowing water, nurturing and abundant. Pig-year people carry a quiet abundance, they have enough and want to share it. They are the last sign of the zodiac cycle, which traditionally marks them as bringing lessons of completion, gratitude, and the simple pleasures of a life well-lived. In an anxious age, Pig people are a reminder that warmth and honesty still work.
Core Traits
Strengths
Pigs are the zodiac's most genuinely warm sign, open, honest, generous with time and resources. They make friends easily and keep them for life. Their optimism is earned, not naive.
Challenges
Pigs can be too trusting, prone to indulgence, and slow to leave bad situations. Their generosity sometimes attracts takers.
Career & Work Style
Pig-year people thrive in work that rewards their natural gifts, generous, warm, honest, and gives room for their distinctive approach. Best-fit career tracks include:
Natural careers: Chef, hospitality, teacher, nurse, philanthropist, artist, farmer, counselor.
Pig Compatibility
Compatibility in the Chinese zodiac is governed by the four trines and the six clashing pairs. Here's how the Pig connects with other signs.
Best Matches
These signs naturally harmonize with Pig energy, bringing complementary strengths and mutual understanding.
Lucky Colors, Numbers & Directions
These traditional associations work best as small, everyday cues, wearing a lucky color to an important meeting, choosing a phone number with lucky digits, or timing significant actions to the Pig's hours (21:00–23:00).
Your Full Chart Goes Deeper Than Your Zodiac Year
Being a Pig is one of eight characters in your complete Energy Chart. Your birth month, day, and hour each carry their own animal and element, and the interaction between all four pillars is what creates your actual personality, not the year alone.
Two Pigs born in different months can have very different charts. A Pig born during a Dragon hour reads differently than one born during a Snake hour. The zodiac sign is the first brushstroke; the full Energy Chart is the portrait.
Is it the Pig or the Boar?
Pig and boar both appear in English. The Japanese zodiac takes it further and reads the sign as the wild boar specifically, which shifts the character from comfortable to fierce.
Whichever name you have seen, it is the same position in the twelve-year cycle and the same sign. Nothing about the reading changes.
Getting on with a Pig
Compatibility charts tell you which signs pair easily. They do not tell you how to actually handle the person in front of you. For the Pig:
Be warm and generous back. Pigs give easily and notice who reciprocates.
Do not take advantage of their good nature; they forgive once and then quietly withdraw.
Health and energy for the Pig
In Eastern energy terms, Water governs the Kidneys & Bladder and the feeling of fear transformed into willpower. For a Water Pig, stillness, early nights and conserving energy in winter keep Water deep instead of drained.
This is the traditional Eastern reading of the Pig's signature element, Water — a description of where your energy tends to run high or thin, not medical advice. Which element your own chart is actually short of depends on all four pillars, not the year alone.
The 5 Pig Signs
Every Pig comes in five element versions across the 60 year cycle, and your exact sign depends on the year you were born. Find yours below to read its full personality and energy profile.
All five names below read Yin, and that is not a mistake. The Yin or Yang in a sign name comes from the year stem, the character the calendar pairs with the Pig in that year, and every year stem the Pig meets is Yin. The Pig's own fixed element points the other way, at Yang Water. Both are correct. One describes the year, the other describes the animal.
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See Your Full Chart, Not Just Your Year
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