Cast & Chart

Rabbit and Monkey

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

五行大義 offers an indirect thread for this unlisted pair: 申 is where water is born and 卯 is where wood is strongest, and water feeds wood. Taken plainly, though, 申 is a metal branch and metal cuts wood, so the fixed elements argue the reverse. The classical tables themselves record nothing for 卯 and 申, five steps apart, yin against yang.

Popular zodiac books pair a cautious Rabbit with a mischievous Monkey and foresee both amusement and mistrust. Those forecasts come from modern personality types, and no source here supports them.

The mischief that popular books give the Monkey reads differently depending on who receives it. Ask where fun starts to feel like being tested. Agree on one signal that means the game is over for now.

With the elements pointing both ways and no table entry at all, 卯 and 申 give you nothing firm about signs and even less about 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.