Goat and Rat in love
Needs patience and explicit kindness. The Rat must show that affection is not conditional.
Six harms
Goat and Rat Compatibility
Goat and Rat compatibility: they sit 5 apart in the twelve-year cycle, a pairing the tradition classes as “Six harms”. We score it 55%.
- Relation
- Six harms Liu Hai, 六害
- Steps apart
- 5 in the twelve-year cycle
- Next Goat year
- 2027 starts Feb 6, 2027
- Next Rat year
- 2032 starts Feb 11, 2032
New-year dates: Hong Kong Observatory calendar.
Six harms
55%
Are the Goat and Rat compatible?
Rat and Goat form a traditional harm pairing. The Rat is shrewd, fast and sometimes calculating; the Goat is soft-hearted and needs emotional reassurance. The Goat may feel used by the Rat's pragmatism, and the Rat may find the Goat's moods hard to read.
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Working together
The Rat handles money and opportunities, the Goat handles people — if they trust each other.
Where it goes wrong
The Rat's frugality meeting the Goat's love of beautiful things.
Over time
How a Goat–Rat relationship usually unfolds
- At first. The Rat is resourceful and the Goat imaginative; the attraction is real, but their priorities show early.
- Once settled. The Rat saves and the Goat spends on beauty; tradition lists the pair among the six harms.
- What keeps it working. The Rat showing that affection is not conditional on thrift, and the Goat setting its own budget.
Fixed elements
Earth Goat, water Rat
generating · controlling
The Goat’s earth dams the Rat’s water — banks that can channel a river or block it. On the controlling cycle the Goat sets the limits for the Rat.
The fixed element belongs to the animal and never changes; the element of a birth year (wood, fire, earth, metal or water) rotates every two years — see the years below.
On the twelve-year wheel
Where the Goat and the Rat sit on the wheel
- Goat–Rat, 5 steps apart: Liu Hai, the six harms.
- San He triangles. Rat with the Dragon and the Monkey (dashed); Goat with the Rabbit and the Pig.
- Clash axes. Rat–Horse; Goat–Ox.
- Secret friends. In the Liu He list the Rat pairs with the Ox; the Goat pairs with the Horse.
- Six harms. Goat and Rat; Rat and Goat — not drawn.
Computed from 108 years of real lunar new year dates
The arithmetic behind this pairing
How the Goat and the Rat sit on the cycle, and the share of the century each one actually holds.
Lunar years run 353 to 385 days, so the Rat ends up with 58 more days than the Goat over the 108-year table: 3,306 against 3,248. As a pairing, five positions apart, they make up 1.379% of all pairings.
Possible age gaps — fixed by the cycle
A Goat and a Rat can only be these numbers of years apart:
5
years apart
7
years apart
17
years apart
19
years apart
29
years apart
31
years apart
41
years apart
43
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
| Goat | Rat | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Wood Goat 2015 | Earth Rat 2008 | 7 years apart |
| Wood Goat 2015 | Metal Rat 2020 | 5 years apart |
| Water Goat 2003 | Fire Rat 1996 | 7 years apart |
| Water Goat 2003 | Earth Rat 2008 | 5 years apart |
| Metal Goat 1991 | Wood Rat 1984 | 7 years apart |
| Metal Goat 1991 | Fire Rat 1996 | 5 years apart |
| Earth Goat 1979 | Water Rat 1972 | 7 years apart |
| Earth Goat 1979 | Wood Rat 1984 | 5 years apart |
Birth years for this pairing
Born in January or early February? Check the date before counting yourself a Goat or a Rat.
Goat
1955 · 1967 · 1979 · 1991 · 2003 · 2015Rat
1960 · 1972 · 1984 · 1996 · 2008 · 2020Cite this page
AstroHot. “Goat and Rat Compatibility in the Chinese Zodiac.” Accessed October 28, 2026. https://astrohot.com/chinese-horoscope/compatibility/goat/rat/
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