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A room of Fire · 火
Snake and Horse
Two of the twelve zodiac animals carry Fire as their fixed element: the Snake (巳, sì) is yin fire, and the Horse (午, wǔ) is yang fire. A birth year can also add a rotating Fire on top.
The Snake sits at 巳, the yin face of Fire, sharp, focused, and quietly intense like a steady flame. The Horse sits at 午, the branch of high noon and the yang face of Fire, bright, spirited, and outward like the blazing sun. Their branches also name the summer fire months and the midday fire hours.
Years such as the Fire Horse and the Fire Snake layer the rotating Fire element over the animal's own, which tradition reads as intensifying the animal's fire character. The year 2026 is a Fire Horse (丙午), a doubled-fire year. Enter a birth year on the element finder to see both at once.
Where Fire sits