Snake and Tiger in love
Strong attraction and strong friction. It requires honesty from the Snake and patience from the Tiger.
Six harms
Snake and Tiger Compatibility
Snake and Tiger compatibility: they sit 3 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
- 3 in the twelve-year cycle
- Next Snake year
- 2037 new year in late Jan or Feb
- Next Tiger year
- 2034 new year in late Jan or Feb
New-year dates: Hong Kong Observatory calendar.
Six harms
55%
Are the Snake and Tiger compatible?
Tiger and Snake form a traditional harm pairing and share the Tiger–Snake–Monkey punishment group. The Tiger is open, impulsive and direct; the Snake is secretive, patient and calculating. The Tiger distrusts the Snake's subtlety, and the Snake finds the Tiger reckless.
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Working together
Opposite styles that clash more often than they complement.
Where it goes wrong
Mistrust and power struggles.
Over time
How a Snake–Tiger relationship usually unfolds
- At first. Strong attraction and strong friction from the first meeting.
- Once settled. Mistrust and power struggles; tradition lists the pair among the six harms and in a punishment group.
- What keeps it working. Honesty from the Snake and patience from the Tiger, practiced daily.
Fixed elements
Fire Snake, wood Tiger
generating · controlling
The Tiger’s wood feeds the Snake’s fire — the image is kindling for a fire. On the generating cycle the Tiger gives and the Snake receives.
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 Snake and the Tiger sit on the wheel
- Snake–Tiger, 3 steps apart: Liu Hai, the six harms.
- San He triangles. Tiger with the Horse and the Dog (dashed); Snake with the Ox and the Rooster.
- Clash axes. Tiger–Monkey; Snake–Pig.
- Secret friends. In the Liu He list the Tiger pairs with the Pig; the Snake pairs with the Monkey.
- Six harms. Snake and Tiger; Tiger and Snake — not drawn.
Computed from 108 years of real lunar new year dates
The arithmetic behind this pairing
How the Snake and the Tiger sit on the cycle, and the share of the century each one actually holds.
The 108-year table gives the Snake and the Tiger almost the same number of days, 3,277 and 3,277; three positions apart, they make up 1.381% of all pairings.
Possible age gaps — fixed by the cycle
A Snake and a Tiger can only be these numbers of years apart:
3
years apart
9
years apart
15
years apart
21
years apart
27
years apart
33
years apart
39
years apart
45
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
| Snake | Tiger | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Wood Snake 2025 | Water Tiger 2022 | 3 years apart |
| Water Snake 2013 | Metal Tiger 2010 | 3 years apart |
| Water Snake 2013 | Water Tiger 2022 | 9 years apart |
| Metal Snake 2001 | Earth Tiger 1998 | 3 years apart |
| Metal Snake 2001 | Metal Tiger 2010 | 9 years apart |
| Earth Snake 1989 | Fire Tiger 1986 | 3 years apart |
| Earth Snake 1989 | Earth Tiger 1998 | 9 years apart |
| Fire Snake 1977 | Wood Tiger 1974 | 3 years apart |
Birth years for this pairing
Born in January or early February? Check the date before counting yourself a Snake or a Tiger.
Snake
1965 · 1977 · 1989 · 2001 · 2013 · 2025Tiger
1962 · 1974 · 1986 · 1998 · 2010 · 2022Cite this page
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