Cast & Chart

Rat and Pig

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

三命通會 raises this pairing only to set it aside. It asks why 子 joins 丑 and 寅 joins 亥 when 子 might have joined 亥. Its answer is numerical, with yang given precedence. No relation for 子 and 亥 appears in any table we hold, though the two are neighbors in the north and both are water, yang 子 beside yin 亥.

Popular zodiac tends to portray these two as comfortable companions, the Rat saving and the Pig spending. That portrait comes from modern sign books and has no older witness in our files.

Same element, adjoining places and no formal bond make an interesting starting point. Ask whether your ease with each other covers any subject you keep leaving alone. Money is the one the popular picture would pick, and you may have a better candidate.

Neighbors on the wheel are still only signs, and the pleasant old arithmetic behind 子 and 亥 holds no information about you.

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.