Cast & Chart

Rabbit and Goat

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

亥卯未 is wood's group in the 三合, the Three Harmonies, and 五行大義 puts living wood at 亥, strong wood at 卯 and dying wood at 未. Rabbit and Goat therefore take the last two stages, and the Pig's seat is empty. 三命通會 would say the group needs that third member. The Goat's fixed element is a small surprise, because 未 taken alone is earth, and wood parts earth.

Popular compatibility guides adore this pair as two gentle, home-minded signs. Those guides are drawing on temperament alone, a modern way of reading a group that our older sources present as calendar reasoning.

Wood going from full strength into decline suggests a talk about what you want to keep and what you could let go of. Try naming one habit the two of you have outgrown. Signs called gentle in popular writing may need a little encouragement to say so.

A gentle match in the guides refers to signs in a wood group, and the Rabbit and the Goat you know could be anything but gentle.

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.