Cast & Chart

Rabbit and Horse

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

The traditional relations

  • 相破 Mutual Breaking

    A pair of branches the old tables list as breaking each other. The name is a label, not a forecast.

What tradition says

卯 and 午 appear in the short list of 相破, Mutual Breaking, given by 三命通會, a single witness for this relation. The word 破 means to break, and the passage offers no mechanism for it. Three steps apart, they span a quarter of the circle from east to south. Each is the strongest point of its element group in 五行大義, with wood at 卯 and fire at 午.

Popular zodiac books tell of a home-loving Rabbit and a Horse that wants to be out the door. Popular charts frequently mark this as uneven, and the marks are modern.

Fuel and flame describe the fixed elements here, since wood feeds fire, and the question follows naturally. Does one of you get tired from supplying the energy that the other spends? Ask what a good evening looks like to each person and see how far apart those answers are.

To say 卯 and 午 break each other is to repeat one book's list about two signs, and a Rabbit and a Horse are under no obligation to agree with it.

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.