Cast & Chart

Snake and Goat

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 places apart on the circle, 巳 and 未 are both yin, and the tables name no relation for them. Fire makes earth, so the element flow runs from the Snake's 巳 to the Goat's 未. In the Wuxing Dayi's month sequence they are the first and last months of summer, with 午 between them.

Two quiet signs appear in popular zodiac books here, the Snake thoughtful and the Goat tender, and the usual write-up is a calm household. That calm comes from the adjectives popular writers assign to each animal, and no classical rule stands behind it.

Quiet can mean contentment and it can mean something unsaid. Agree on a plain way for either of you to ask which kind of quiet this is, and to get a straight answer.

Fire making earth runs from 巳 to 未 in theory, and what a Snake and a Goat give one another is outside what signs can show.

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.