Two gentlenesses that find each other: an affinity made of tenderness, comfort, and mutual help.
A shelter and a banquet: tenderness flows, generosity too, and it is worth remembering to set limits.
An affectionate understanding: they welcome each other without judgment and create an atmosphere of kindness around them.
Too indulgent, they let go what bothers them, until the day the overflow spills.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Trine of affinity: Goat, Pig, and Rabbit form a family four years apart from one to the next.
As for the elements, the Goat’s shoreline encloses the Pig’s pond: banks that make the pond, a quiet support and a frame that is sometimes a bit tight. Both are yin and carried by a shared triangle, so the Goat and the Pig make up a double receptive polarity, all gentleness.
| Key fact | Goat | Pig |
|---|---|---|
| Branch | 未 | 亥 |
| Fixed element | Earth | Water |
| Polarity | Yin | Yin |
| Triangle | Rabbit, Pig | Rabbit, Goat |
| Latest years | 2003, 2015 | 2007, 2019 |
Love, friendship, work, or family: the same pair is not lived the same way depending on the relationship.
A tender, homebody, food-loving couple.
The Goat brings sensitivity, creativity, and care for the home; the Pig warmth, frankness, and generosity. You feel welcomed without conditions. The difficulty is saying no to each other: small disagreements are swallowed, big decisions put off. Taking the time, once a month, to talk about the budget, plans, and tiredness protects daily happiness. A carefully set table, a garden, a shared workshop remain their best bonds.
A gentle and comforting friendship: meals, walks, confidences, favors.
Each looks out for the other. They readily set themselves aside for the needs of others, at the risk of forgetting themselves. Giving each other a rest, with no pretext, is a lovely way of looking out for one another. An open kitchen, a shared garden, a terrace meal that drags on: their friendships have the scent of moments when you take your time.
A harmonious, well-liked team: the Goat brings creativity and a taste for beauty, the Pig cohesion and trust.
They succeed in hospitality, restaurants, crafts, and care for the living environment. They sometimes lack firmness on prices, deadlines, and difficult clients. Leaning on a firm third party, or setting written rules, protects them. In fine crafts and gastronomy, the Goat imagines, the Pig welcomes and builds loyalty; customers appreciate their sincerity as much as their know-how.
In a Goat and Pig household, the kitchen is the center of the world and family celebrations an event.
Young people receive a great deal of affection there. A framework of schedules and simple rules, stated warmly, brings balance to this gentleness. The end-of-year holidays in a Goat and Pig family are prepared weeks ahead: menus, decorations, handmade gifts, laughter included.
Between the Goat’s Earth and the Pig’s Water, control runs from ground to liquid: the shore gives the pond its shape.
An image of protection and limits, useful as long as the banks do not become walls.
Here, the two animals’ fixed elements. The element of the birth year (wood, fire, earth, metal, or water) adds to it: it changes every two years.The Earth element →The Water element →
Goat, Pig, and Rabbit form, in several commentaries, a family said to be gentle and creative.
These groupings are astrologers’ habits, not laws. The Goat-Pig pair draws no particular assurance from them. Eighth and twelfth in the cycle, four ranks separate the Goat from the Pig; both yin, they complete the Rabbit in their group, which commentators call gentle.
Goat (no. 8) and Pig (no. 12): 4 years apart in the cycle, triangle of affinity
The twelve animals follow one another in a cycle: the shortest gap between the two gives the relationship. Four or eight years apart, a triangle; six, an opposition; the secret friend and harm pairs are fixed pairs in the tradition.
A family resemblance in the cycle argues for a fine shared gentleness. For the bond to last, it is better to learn to say no to each other and to talk about money, tiredness, or dissatisfaction before they pile up.
That one family, with the Rabbit, brings them together, four years separating them. The texts see in it neighboring temperaments, tender and welcoming. It gives a common language, without promising anything.
A sense of welcome. Around them, at home as at the office, you are well received, well fed, well listened to. This warmth is their shared wealth.
Yes: a Fire Pig warms the pond, an Earth Pig contains it; a Wood Goat plants reeds in it. Birth years vary the shape of the banks.