Cast & Chart

Horse 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

Between 午 and 亥 the tables list nothing. Five places apart, they lie one step from being opposite, and 亥 is the neighbor of 子, the true opposite of 午. 午 is yang fire and 亥 is yin water, and water quenches fire. In the month order one falls in midsummer and the other opens winter.

Stories in popular zodiac books tell of a Horse always heading somewhere and a Pig happy to stay and eat well, and popular charts often describe the two as friendly. That friendliness is a modern impression, and the classical material offers no comment.

One sign is said to go out and the other to settle in. What does a good evening look like for each of you, and how often can both versions happen?

Water quenching fire is a line about the signs 亥 and 午, which does not reach as far as any Horse or Pig who happen to care for one another.

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.