Cast & Chart

Rabbit and Pig

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

卯 and 亥 are two of the three branches in the wood group of 三合, the Three Harmonies, which is completed by 未, the Goat. They sit four places apart, and the Wuxing Dayi gives each a stage of wood: 亥 in the north holds wood being born and 卯 in the east holds wood at its height. Their own elements agree with the picture, since 亥 is water and water feeds the wood of 卯.

In popular zodiac books, Rabbit and Pig are two mild signs that prefer comfort to contest, and the pairing usually scores well on popular charts. The Sanming Tonghui says a triad lacking one member does not form a full group. The classical rule is therefore narrower than the cheerful score suggests.

Two people of signs popular books call easygoing can each wait for the other to raise the awkward thing. Pick a topic you have both been politely leaving alone, and agree on who brings it up first next time.

The rule links 亥 and 卯 as signs, and the people born under them remain to be known.

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.