Cast & Chart

Goat and Goat

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

未 doubled is one branch meeting itself, and the four branches with Self-Punishment do not include it. It belongs to the 丑, 戌, 未 cycle, where 戌 punishes 未 and 未 punishes 丑, so the arrows touch other branches only. As earth and yin, in the last month of summer, two of 未 add no element conflict. The Wuxing Dayi also gives 未 the dying stage of wood, a small surprise in an earth branch.

Gentle and artistic is how popular zodiac books see a Goat, and two of them are said to read each other's moods while both wait for someone else to decide. Popular writers then debate whether that counts as harmony or drift, a debate the branch tables take no part in.

Two people of a sign popular books call considerate can each defer until nothing is decided. Take turns being the one who chooses, for a month at a time, and see whether the choosing gets easier.

Two Goats share a sign and nothing more is implied, because 未 is a calendar position and you are each a person.

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.