Cast & Chart

Dog and Dog

These are traditional rules about the twelve signs. No chart decides a relationship.

The traditional relations

  • 無 No listed relation

    None of the classical relations apply to this pair.

What tradition says

戌 paired with itself has no entry for Self-Punishment, and the tables offer nothing else for a sign meeting its own kind. In the punishment cycle its arrows go to 未 and come from 丑. Yang earth in the ninth month, the branch also holds the dying stage of fire in the Wuxing Dayi's triads.

Loyalty and a quick sense of unfairness define the Dog in popular zodiac books, and two together are a pair who trust slowly and then completely. That portrait belongs to popular writing. A doubled branch, on the classical side, is simply a doubled branch.

Two people of a sign popular books call watchful may each be waiting for the other to prove something. What would it take for you to stop checking on a particular worry? Tell each other, and be specific.

Two Dogs share the branch 戌 and the sign's reputation, and neither of those is a description of who you actually are.

Where this text comes from

The relation tables follow 五行大義 volume 2 and 三命通會 volumes 2 and 3 on Wikisource. The popular readings are modern and come from neither.

The English here is our own plain wording, not a translation of a single source.