Cast & Chart

Tiger and Tiger

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 is the third branch and the first month, a yang branch of wood on the east side of the circle. Two Tigers make no entry in the relation tables. 三命通會 is explicit on why 寅 does not punish itself: 寅, 巳 and 申 already punish one another, so the term self-punishment is saved for branches left without a partner.

Popular zodiac books imagine twin Tigers as exciting and competitive, each expecting to lead. Those books tend to add a note about pride. It is a modern portrait drawn from the sign's reputation.

Doubling a branch where fire is born, as 五行大義 has it, suggests plenty of starting and a shortage of tending. Ask which of you keeps a fire going after the first enthusiasm. Then decide what you would each do if two good ideas needed the same weekend.

Two Tigers share a starting position on a wheel, and that position is silent on the temper of anyone born there.

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.