Cast & Chart

Rat and Tiger

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

The tables of harmonies, clashes, harms, breakings and punishments in our sources have no entry joining 子 and 寅. What remains is position: the Tiger's branch lies two steps past the Rat's with the Ox between them, and the calendar puts 子 at the eleventh month and 寅 at the first. In the fixed elements 子 is water and 寅 is wood, and water feeds wood.

Modern popular zodiac tends to cast the Rat as the calculator and the Tiger as the one who leaps first. Popular charts usually rate them as workable together, a modern judgment with no table behind it. The feeding of wood by water is the only link here that comes from traditional reasoning.

Try taking the water and wood image as a prompt. Which of you does more of the quiet supplying, such as research or logistics, and does the other notice? If one person keeps a mental ledger of favors, this is a good time to read it out.

With no rule on record for this pair, any verdict on a Rat and a Tiger comes from modern charts and speaks only of signs.

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.