Water · Yang
Rat
Brings. Spots an opening before anyone else and moves on it. Rarely caught unprepared.
Struggles with. Hoards — money, information, contacts — and can be quietly opportunistic about people.
Neutral
Rat and Pig
Neutral
68%
No traditional aspect between these signs — neither reinforced nor opposed. What happens depends on the people rather than the pattern.
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 wheel1 of 12
RelationNeutral
Same fixed elementYes
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.