Cast & Chart

Tiger and Dragon

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 the Tiger's 寅 and the Dragon's 辰 lies only 卯, and no table we hold relates them. Both are yang, both sit in the east, and they differ in element, since 寅 is wood, 辰 is earth, and wood parts earth. 五行大義 also gives them different work, with fire born at 寅 and water dying at 辰.

Modern popular zodiac enjoys this pair as two large personalities who take turns at center stage. Popular charts place it somewhere in the upper middle, which is a matter of taste among modern authors.

Two showy signs, as the popular picture paints them, could ask who gives up the spotlight and when. Try recalling a recent moment when one of you took over a story the other was telling. Ask how that felt, and be ready for an answer you had not expected.

Taste in charts is all that stands behind any score for a Tiger and a Dragon, and scores belong to signs and stop short of persons.

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.