Water · Yin
Pig
Brings. Genuinely kind and hard to provoke. Gives without keeping a ledger.
Struggles with. Trusts too readily and indulges too easily.
Traditional clash
Pig and Snake
Traditional clash
45%
Directly opposite on the wheel. Traditionally the most difficult pairing, because the qualities each of you values are the ones the other neglects.
Fire · Yin
Snake
Brings. Reads situations accurately and says nothing until saying something helps.
Struggles with. Keeps its own counsel to the point where nobody knows where they stand.
Distance on the wheel6 of 12
RelationTraditional clash
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.