Cast & Chart

Goat and Pig

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

The traditional relations

  • 三合 Three Harmonies

    Two members of a trio of branches that tradition groups together.

What tradition says

亥, 卯 and 未 make the wood group of 三合, the Three Harmonies, and this pair holds its two ends with the Rabbit's 卯 absent. In the Wuxing Dayi 亥 is wood being born in the north and 未 is wood dying away in the south. Four steps lie between them. Neither is wood by its own element: 亥 is water, 未 is earth, and earth dams water, so the branch elements and the triad tell slightly different stories.

One of the sweetest matches, according to popular zodiac books, joins two kindly signs who like home and dislike quarrels. The popular compliment borrows its authority from the triad. Without 卯 the group is incomplete by the Sanming Tonghui's own standard.

People who dislike quarrels can let a grievance sit for a long time. Is there something small from last month that either of you would raise if it cost nothing to raise it?

The wood triad links two signs on a wheel, and a particular Goat and Pig may be sweeter or sharper than that.

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.