Cast & Chart

Dragon and Horse

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

No harmony, clash or harm is recorded for 辰 and 午 in the tables we hold, so this page has less classical ground to stand on. Two steps separate them on the circle, which also means they share a polarity, both yang. 午 is fire and 辰 is earth, and fire making earth gives the one firm link available.

Popular compatibility charts rarely agree on this pair, since a spotlight-loving Dragon and a freedom-loving Horse can be written up as a thrill or as a contest. Popular zodiac writers are able to go either way here because the branch tables give them nothing to copy.

Both signs are painted in popular books as restless, so the useful question may be about pace. When one of you wants to move on to the next thing, how does the other find out? A shared signal for slow down or keep going costs nothing to try.

Absent any listed relation, the pairing of 辰 and 午 remains a comparison of two signs, with no verdict on a Dragon and Horse you know.

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.