Cast & Chart

Ox and Ox

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

丑 is the second branch and belongs to the twelfth month of the traditional year, a yin branch of earth. Doubling it produces no entry in the relation tables, and 丑 is absent from the four self-punishing branches because its punishment is aimed at 戌. 五行大義 makes 丑 the place where metal dies, so two Oxen double a point of ending and storage.

Two Oxen, according to popular zodiac books, build slowly and rarely argue about chores. The same books expect stubbornness from both, which is the flip side of their favorite trait for this sign.

With the same earth on both sides, ask how either of you signals that something has to change. Think of a routine that has outlived its reason and see who would be first to mention it. That could be the start of a slow and worthwhile talk.

Two people can share the branch 丑 and have nothing else in common, and the sign speaks for neither.

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.