Cast & Chart

Tiger and Rabbit

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

寅 and 卯 are the first and second months and lie next to each other in the east, and both are wood, the Tiger's yang and the Rabbit's yin. Same element and neighboring place produce no entry in the classical tables, which is worth saying directly. Even the harmony pairs run elsewhere, 寅 to 亥 and 卯 to 戌.

The picture in popular zodiac books sets a bold Tiger beside a wary Rabbit, with the Tiger charging ahead and the Rabbit smoothing the results. Many popular lists call that a workable fit.

Since wood meets wood with no cycle to push either way, the useful question is about difference inside likeness. What do you both want that you go about in opposite manners? Pick a single shared aim and compare methods.

Two wood branches side by side are a feature of the calendar, and the Tiger and the Rabbit in your life may be nothing alike.

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.