Cast & Chart

Snake and Snake

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

A same-sign pair means one branch twice, here 巳, and the tables record no Self-Punishment for it, since only 辰, 午, 酉 and 亥 carry that label. 巳 does sit in the punishment cycle 寅, 巳, 申, but its arrow points on to 申 and never back to itself. As fire and yin in the fourth month, doubled 巳 has no element tension to report. One oddity is worth knowing: in the Wuxing Dayi this fire branch holds the birth of metal.

Privacy is the Snake's trademark in popular zodiac books, and those books wonder what happens when two of them share a house. The popular answer swings between close understanding and mutual suspicion, and both are storytelling.

Two people of a sign popular books call reserved may each assume the other already knows. Try saying one thing a week that you had assumed needed no saying, and ask whether the other had guessed it.

Doubling 巳 tells you only that two signs match on a calendar, so two Snakes are still two separate people.

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.