Cast & Chart

Rabbit and Snake

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

Two yin branches with the Dragon between them, 卯 and 巳 have no entry in the relation tables we hold. Wood feeds fire, since 卯 is wood and 巳 is fire. 五行大義 complicates the picture slightly by placing the birth of metal at 巳, and metal cuts wood, so the group-level reading runs against the plain one.

In popular sign books the Snake thinks hard and the Rabbit reads the room, and the two are credited with quiet understanding. Such reports are modern.

Two signs called reserved in popular books can feel understood without having said much. Ask whether something you assumed the other knew has ever been said aloud. Choosing one such assumption and checking it may take five minutes.

Quiet understanding is a trait the books assign to signs, and a Rabbit and a Snake of your acquaintance may be talkative and blunt.

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.