Cast & Chart

Ox and Rabbit

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

With 寅 between them, 丑 and 卯 sit two steps apart and the classical tables list no relation for them. The Ox's branch is north and earth, the Rabbit's is east and wood, and wood parts earth. Both are yin branches, so the pairing of one yin with one yang that 三命通會 requires for a harmony could never apply here.

Two quiet signs, say popular zodiac books, with the Ox providing shelter and the Rabbit providing tact. Popular charts generally class them as agreeable. All of this is modern and rests on temperament types.

Wood parting earth is a slow action, roots finding a way through soil. You might ask each other what small changes have worked their way into your routines and who chose them. Two signs painted in popular writing as reluctant to complain may also want a rule for raising problems.

The agreeable label belongs to the signs in modern charts, and whether an Ox and a Rabbit in your life are agreeable is for them to show.

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.