Earth · Yin
Ox
Brings. Finishes what it starts, without supervision and without complaint.
Struggles with. Immovable once decided, and reads flexibility as weakness.
Sextile — easy
Ox and Pig
Sextile — easy
78%
Two apart. Comfortable and cooperative without being identical.
Water · Yin
Pig
Brings. Genuinely kind and hard to provoke. Gives without keeping a ledger.
Struggles with. Trusts too readily and indulges too easily.
Distance on the wheel2 of 12
RelationSextile — easy
Same fixed elementNo
How Chinese compatibility works
The rule is positional. Animals four apart form an affinity triangle and are read as natural allies — they share instincts and pace. Animals six apart sit directly opposite and are the traditional clash: each values what the other neglects.
This differs from Western astrology, which uses angles on a 360-degree circle. Here the wheel has twelve positions and the relationships are counted in steps, not degrees.
Traditional pairings sometimes override the geometry — a few combinations are named explicitly as friends or enemies in the old texts, and those take precedence.
Computed from 110 years of real lunar new year dates
The arithmetic behind this pairing
Chinese years run 354 or 384 days, so each animal collects a different number of days across the century — the shares below are not 8.33% each.
Positions apart on the cycle
2
Pairings at this distance
12 of 78
Days assigned to Ox
3,279 · 8.24%
Days assigned to Pig
3,306 · 8.3%
Share of all pairings
1.368%
2 positions apart · 12 of 78 pairings share that distance · 1.368% of all pairings. Neither trine nor clash, where most pairings sit.
Possible age gaps — fixed by the cycle
Because the animals sit at fixed positions, two people with these signs can only differ in age by certain numbers of years. Not approximately — exactly these:
2
years apart
10
years apart
14
years apart
22
years apart
26
years apart
34
years apart
38
years apart
46
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
Metal Ox 2021 & Earth Pig 2019
2 years apart
Metal Ox 2021 & Metal Pig 2031
10 years apart
Earth Ox 2009 & Fire Pig 2007
2 years apart
Earth Ox 2009 & Earth Pig 2019
10 years apart
Fire Ox 1997 & Wood Pig 1995
2 years apart
Fire Ox 1997 & Fire Pig 2007
10 years apart
Wood Ox 1985 & Water Pig 1983
2 years apart
Wood Ox 1985 & Wood Pig 1995
10 years apart
The five versions of each animal
The animal repeats every 12 years but the element every 60, so each partner comes in five variants — and the combination you actually have is one of 25.
Wood Ox
1985
Fire Ox
1997
Earth Ox
2009
Metal Ox
2021
Water Ox
2033
Wood Pig
1995
Fire Pig
2007
Earth Pig
2019
Metal Pig
2031
Water Pig
1983
Birth years for this pairing
⚠️ Each year starts at the lunar new year, not 1 January — if either of you was born in January or early February, check the exact date before trusting the animal.
Ox
1961 · 1973 · 1985 · 1997 · 2009 · 2021Pig
1971 · 1983 · 1995 · 2007 · 2019 · 2031