Cast & Chart

Dog and Pig

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 and 亥 close the circle, the eleventh and twelfth places, with 子 next in line as the count starts over. No relation is recorded for this pair. 戌 is yang earth, 亥 is yin water, and earth dams water. Month by month they are the ninth and tenth, one closing autumn and the other opening winter.

A comfortable match is the usual ranking in popular zodiac books, the dutiful Dog relaxing around the good-humored Pig. Popular writers like the image of two signs at the end of the line keeping each other company, a charming idea with no classical source.

The worrier and optimist of the popular picture often divide the labor without ever saying so. Who in your pair carries the concern about what might go wrong, and would the other be willing to hold it for a while?

Earth and water meet in the signs 戌 and 亥, while a Dog and a Pig meet as people those signs cannot speak for.

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.