In 2026 we make a paradigm shift. The years marked by wood as an element are left behind, to start the fire, according to the Chinese Horoscope. For this reason, Ángeles Lasso, a renowned Chilean psychoastrologist, spoke with BioBioChile and revealed how the year is projected according to the traditional horoscope of that country, which she also details in her book “Chinese Horoscope 2026 Year of the Fire Horse”.
Unlike the West, where we are governed by the solar calendar to make projections about our lives, in China traditions follow a mostly lunar calendar, which makes the months and years begin with each new moon.
In that context, The Chinese New Year 2026 will only make its official entry on February 17, leaving behind the year of the Wood Snake, to officially begin the year of the Fire Horse.
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This festival is celebrated for 15 days until the next full moon, with a series of symbols and customs, among which a horoscope made up of 12 animals and 5 elements that accompany them.
These animals vary every 12 years and are associated with certain personality traits and characteristics. (To identify which animal you belong to, you just have to find your year of birth.)
Rata: 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020
Buffalo: 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021
Tigre: 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022
Rabbit: 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023
Dragon: 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024
Snake: 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025
Horse: 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026
Goat: 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027
Mono: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016, 2028
Gallo: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017, 2029
Dog: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030
Pig: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031
Additionally, each animal is combined with one of the 5 Chinese elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water, in a 60-year cycle.
To identify which element you belong to, it is associated with the last digit in which your year of birth ends.
Metal: years ending in 0 or 1
Agua: years ending in 2 or 3
Madera: years ending in 4 or 5
Fuego: years ending in 6 or 7
Tierra: years ending in 8 or 9
How 2026 is projected, according to Ángeles Lasso
Once those points about the Chinese New Year are clear, Ángeles Lasso explains what the transition will be like from the Year of the Wood Snake to the Fire Horse.
In his book, he explains that “the light of the fire will show what is still hidden”, from the hand of a horse that symbolizes independence and rebellion.
“Many complaints will arise, both against people, companies, and nations. Nothing will remain in the shadows, because the blinding light of the lit fire will sweep away the darkness. There will be purification, although at a high price,” he explained.
“They are actually quite terrible years. We are going through a time, an extremely brutal cycle. Between 2020 and 2031 we are experiencing a paradigm shift on a planetary level.including natural disasters, because the planet is also rearranging itself,” the expert explained to our media.
“This happens every 60 years and in 2020 the last 60 years from 1960 were completed. So, these 60 years are divided into five 12-year cycles and now we are living the first cycle that runs from 2020 to 2031. Therefore, it is a process that began, no less than with the pandemic,” he explained.
To the latter he added: “And that was a brutal paradigm shift because we all had to enter the world of the internet as the only alternative. Once we were confined, the only thing we could do was communicate through the element of air. Metal corresponds to air. So this This paradigm shift began in which increasingly technologicalincreasingly immersed in the air element.”
“We are leaving earth times to enter air times and we can translate this into triggered technology. And now in 2025 with the snake we will reach artificial intelligence,” he specified.
Ángeles explains that everything is changing, since society began to establish the foundations of a “new world, of a new way of living our principles.”
Projections on people according to their element
But those changes also impact each person. Ángeles explains in a general way how the year is approaching for people according to their element.
People with metal element: “They are going to experience enormous transformations because the fire deforms the metal. It changes their life, it changes their shape.”
People with water element: “These people are going to have very emotionally intense years governing fire, because fire makes water boil.”
People with wood element: “These people, like wood feeds fire, are going to be like everything in their lives is magnified, everything is going to be exaggerated, enlarged for better and worse. If it is a fight it will be big, if it is love it will be big, if it is a big gain, if it is a big loss.”
People with fire element: “Those with fire are even more exaggerated, because fire with fire is a fire. So, these are going to be in great need of movement because fire is also action. They are going to start many things, they are going to start projects, they are going to finish others, they are going to be full of energy and with multiple activities.”
People with earth element: “Those are the most practical and they are the only ones who will control the fire because the earth puts out the fire. So, they will be calmer, they will have a more stable life, perhaps, than all the others.”
Will the year of the Fire Horse benefit those who enjoy this animal and element?
“The year itself is the most difficult year in history. I mean, this is the really difficult year“, confessed Ángeles.
“Especially in the case of those who are Fire Horses, they are people who were born in the year 1966. And they are people who are going to turn 60. They are closing the learning cycle of life, which is five times 12. We move on to 12 years, 24, 36, 48 and 60. When you turn 60 that is called the celestial year,” he said.
In this context, people who were born in 1966 will have to give feedback on their lives. “Those who did it wrong are going to have a very bad time, those who did it right are going to receive all the benefits. It’s how you sowed, it’s how you reaped,” Lasso explained.
Regarding animals, those most affected by this Fire Horse are precisely the horse and the mouse.
The latter is detailed by the expert: “The mouse because it is the complementary opposite of the horse, so this means that he is like on the other side of the coin and in a certain way what happens to the horse affects the mouse.”
For its part, the most benefited will be the tiger and the dog“who are great friends of the horse.” They are added the pig, the goat and it will be a calmer year for the snake “It comes from an intense year, but they still face a big challenge.”
How is the year coming for Chile?
According to Ángeles, countries also have a sign according to the year in which they were born or formed as such. According to his research, The year was determined to be 1810, meaning that Chile represents the Metal Horse.
“Not only us, but other Latin American republics that also began their life as republics of the same year, are also governed by the Horse. So, all of Latin America is going to be very upset for that reason,” confesses Lasso.
According to his explanation, the horse is a dual sign, divided between light and darkness or black and white.
“It tends to have two people’s realities at the same time and it also tends to cause people to divide into groups that are irreconcilable with each other. Therefore, we are going to have not only in Chile, in many other places, many divisions, groups, irreconcilable, groups that will not listen to each other.“, he expresses.
Angeles Lasso’s overall predictions
In addition to this, Ángeles reports that it is very likely that there quite a few natural disasters in different parts and possibly large fires. “The fire kind of alters everything. So, there will also be a lot of violence in the world,” he said.
Furthermore, he warned that “above all, there will be a lot of popular revoltof towns, of people, of students. That is like a tone of the years of fire.”
In his book he indicates that migration will continue to risea part motivated by wars, which will significantly have consequences on nations.
Also There will be an important normalization of sexual diversity, as well as an explosive increase in female leadership.
In summary, 2026 will be a year marked by the evolution of technology, by social demonstrations and as well as advances in science.
This last branch will be very positive for health and diseases, since It is expected that solutions can be found for diseases such as cancer, as reported by the psychoastrologer.
“We will see accelerated development of successful treatments for diseases previously considered incurable, especially cancer, through the discovery of surprising scientific formulas related to the power of mushrooms“, he details in his book.
“Even in everything that has to do with rockets and going into space and all that type of things, there will be a lot of interest in that, a lot of development,” concluded Ángeles Lasso.
