Zodiac Signs: Dates, Personality & Your Sign × Animal Pairing

The twelve zodiac signs mark the year in twelve stretches — Aries opens the spring, Taurus steadies it, and the wheel turns through to Pisces. Each sign carries an element, a ruling planet, a birthstone and a temperament, and each has its own page here with the dates, the traits and the traditional lucky associations.

This site reads the two wheels together. Every Western zodiac sign is paired with one animal of the Chinese zodiac, and each pairing is written as a single combined profile — how the sign’s element meets the animal’s temperament, where the two agree, and where they pull in different directions. Twelve signs, twelve animals, twelve pairings.

Start with your sign below, or look up your Chinese zodiac animal from your birth date. If you already know both, go straight to your pairing.

Don’t know your animal? Look it up from your birth date in 10 seconds →