Cast & Chart

Rabbit and Dragon

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

The traditional relations

  • 六害 Six Harms

    One of six pairs of branches the old tables list as harming each other. The name is a label, not a forecast.

What tradition says

Side by side at the fourth and fifth places, 卯 and 辰 are joined in 六害, the Six Harms. 三命通會 gives this one an unusually human name, the harm of the young overstepping the elder, because strong wood at 卯 presses on the dead earth of 辰. A structural reason comes too: 卯 fears the clash of 酉, and 辰 forms a harmony with 酉.

Popular zodiac books usually show the Dragon as loud and the Rabbit as careful, with the Rabbit wary of being overshadowed. That popular picture reverses the older one, where 卯 is the branch doing the pressing.

The reversal is worth testing. In your case, who holds the quiet power, the one who speaks most or the one whose comfort everyone arranges things around? Age and seniority may come into this too, so consider asking who feels talked down to.

The young-and-elder image belongs to 卯 and 辰 as branches and tells you nothing about who is older or wiser between two real people.

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.