Pig and Snake in love
Hard work. It needs the Snake to open up and the Pig to respect the Snake's privacy.
Clash
Pig and Snake Compatibility
Pig and Snake compatibility: they sit 6 apart in the twelve-year cycle, a pairing the tradition classes as “Clash”. We score it 45%.
- Relation
- Clash Liu Chong, 六冲
- Steps apart
- 6 in the twelve-year cycle
- Next Pig year
- 2031 starts Jan 23, 2031
- Next Snake year
- 2037 new year in late Jan or Feb
New-year dates: Hong Kong Observatory calendar.
Clash
45%
Are the Pig and Snake compatible?
Snake and Pig sit opposite each other, the traditional clash. The Snake is private, strategic and suspicious; the Pig is open, trusting and sociable. The Snake may see the Pig as naive, and the Pig may find the Snake cold and secretive.
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Working together
Very different approaches to trust and risk; roles must be clear.
Where it goes wrong
Misunderstandings about motives and hidden agendas.
Over time
How a Pig–Snake relationship usually unfolds
- At first. Opposite branches of the cycle: the Pig is open and the Snake private, and curiosity draws them together.
- Once settled. Misunderstandings about motives come easily; tradition calls this the clash pairing.
- What keeps it working. The Snake explaining itself, and the Pig respecting the Snake's need for privacy.
Fixed elements
Water Pig, fire Snake
generating · controlling
The Pig’s water puts out the Snake’s fire — water that can cool a fire or drown it. On the controlling cycle the Pig sets the limits for the Snake.
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 Pig and the Snake sit on the wheel
- Pig–Snake, 6 steps apart: Liu Chong, the clash.
- San He triangles. Snake with the Ox and the Rooster (dashed); Pig with the Rabbit and the Goat.
- Clash axis. The Pig and the Snake sit at its two ends — this pair is the clash.
- Secret friends. In the Liu He list the Snake pairs with the Monkey; the Pig pairs with the Tiger.
- Six harms. Pig and Monkey; Snake and Tiger — not drawn.
Computed from 108 years of real lunar new year dates
The arithmetic behind this pairing
How the Pig and the Snake sit on the cycle, and the share of the century each one actually holds.
Lunar years run 353 to 385 days, so the Pig ends up with 29 more days than the Snake over the 108-year table: 3,306 against 3,277. As a pairing, six positions apart, they make up 1.393% of all pairings.
Possible age gaps — fixed by the cycle
A Pig and a Snake can only be these numbers of years apart:
6
years apart
18
years apart
30
years apart
42
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
| Pig | Snake | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Earth Pig 2019 | Water Snake 2013 | 6 years apart |
| Earth Pig 2019 | Wood Snake 2025 | 6 years apart |
| Fire Pig 2007 | Metal Snake 2001 | 6 years apart |
| Fire Pig 2007 | Water Snake 2013 | 6 years apart |
| Wood Pig 1995 | Earth Snake 1989 | 6 years apart |
| Wood Pig 1995 | Metal Snake 2001 | 6 years apart |
| Water Pig 1983 | Fire Snake 1977 | 6 years apart |
| Water Pig 1983 | Earth Snake 1989 | 6 years apart |
Birth years for this pairing
Born in January or early February? Check the date before counting yourself a Pig or a Snake.
Pig
1959 · 1971 · 1983 · 1995 · 2007 · 2019Snake
1965 · 1977 · 1989 · 2001 · 2013 · 2025Cite this page
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