Cast & Chart

Snake and Horse

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

巳 and 午 are side by side in the first half of summer by the month order, the fourth and fifth months, and both are fire. No relation between them appears in the classical tables. They differ in polarity alone, 巳 yin and 午 yang. Each also belongs to a different triad: 巳 to the metal group, 午 to the fire group.

A deliberate Snake stands beside a Horse who acts first and thinks on the way, according to popular zodiac columns. Popular charts often give a middling score. With two fire branches and an empty table, a middle mark is about as much as anyone could defend.

Two fire signs on paper may still run at different speeds. How long does each of you need before answering a big question, and can the faster one agree to wait that long without prompting?

Shared fire is a property of 巳 and 午 as signs, and the two of you may run as hot or as cool as you please.

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.