Cast & Chart

Rooster 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

Between 酉 and 亥 lies only 戌, and the tables list no relation for them. Both are yin. Metal carries water in the generating cycle, so 酉 is on the giving side and 亥 on the receiving side. By month they are the eighth and the tenth.

In popular zodiac books the fastidious Rooster meets the relaxed Pig, a pairing popular writers use for gentle comedy about tidiness. Scores vary from one popular chart to the next, as one would expect of a pair with no classical entry.

Standards of tidiness and of punctuality are easy to joke about and slow to change. Agree on one shared space or habit where one person's standard applies and one where the other's does.

A generating line from 酉 to 亥 is as far as the data goes on these signs, and it cannot describe a real Rooster or Pig.

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.