Cast & Chart

Tiger and Pig

These are traditional rules about the twelve signs. No chart decides a relationship.

The traditional relations

  • 六合 Six Harmonies

    One of six pairs of branches that tradition treats as natural allies.

What tradition says

寅 and 亥 make one of 六合, the Six Harmonies, a pairing that 五行大義 explains twice over. During the first month, sun and moon share the station of 亥 while the Dipper points to 寅, and in the tenth month the roles reverse. 三命通會 counts 寅 as three and 亥 as six, which gives nine, the number it calls the limit of yang.

Popular zodiac books give the Tiger courage and the Pig good nature, and they like the combination. Water feeds wood here too, with 亥 as the water and 寅 as the wood, so the popular mood and the fixed elements happen to agree.

Water feeding wood has a direction, with one side giving and the other growing. Ask whether one of you is doing most of the feeding, and what that person would like to receive. A specific recent example will tell you more than a general impression.

Nine is a sum of two branch numbers, and the harmony of 寅 with 亥 offers no report on how any Tiger and Pig treat each other.

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.