Two Pigs find each other around a table, a laugh, a good story.
A permanent banquet: much is given there, and someone should think to count the provisions.
A rare human warmth: they welcome, listen to, and forgive each other with natural ease.
The same naivety on both sides exposes the pair: promises believed too quickly, easy spending, decisions put off.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
One animal, one Water: tradition leaves this meeting of two like beings unnamed.
The current is the same, and so is the slope: everything flows toward pleasure and trust. With no bank, the water scatters. Yin is doubled, on a shared Water: a pair of total receptivity, which needs a little form so that generosity does not scatter.
| Key fact | Pig | Pig |
|---|---|---|
| Branch | 亥 | 亥 |
| Fixed element | Water | Water |
| Polarity | Yin | Yin |
| Triangle | Rabbit, Goat | Rabbit, Goat |
| Latest years | 2007, 2019 | 2007, 2019 |
Love, friendship, work, or family: the same pair is not lived the same way depending on the relationship.
A tender, hearty, generous couple.
Friends are welcomed, meals are shared, small misfortunes are laughed off. Trust is total, reproaches rare. The risk is the lack of a safeguard: money slips away, commitments multiply, hard decisions wait. Taking turns appointing the one who watches the accounts and keeps the calendar preserves the couple’s gentleness. A party now and then, and a budget the rest of the time, go well together.
Friends who adore each other: meals, trips, confidences, fits of laughter.
Neither judges the other. They do each other countless favors and can sometimes wear themselves out trying to give everything. Knowing how to say no, together, and allowing themselves time to rest, keeps this generous friendship in good balance. Group vacations, tables of ten, gifts that cross in the mail: these friends compete in kindness and end up exhausting their reserves of time.
A very human team that creates a climate of trust.
Clients and colleagues feel at ease with it. On the other hand, financial rigor and firmness about deadlines are often missing. Bringing in someone who crunches numbers and makes decisions, or setting simple management rules, keeps the whole thing going. At the head of an inn or a charity, two Pigs create a remarkable climate of trust; a third person who handles the figures and closes the books is a precious ally.
With two Pigs, the table is always open, the celebrations memorable, the laughter easy.
The young ones feel deeply loved. So that they also learn limits, a few clear rules, stated with tenderness, are welcome: budget, schedules, guests. In a family of Pigs, everyone is invited, meals go on, children sleep wherever they like: generosity is a house rule.
Two Waters of the same nature: a single basin, with neither generation nor control.
The fluidity is complete, the banks absent. Birth years can bring the earth that contains, the metal that structures, the fire that warms, the wood that grows.
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 Water element →
The treatises give no name to two like animals.
In the Chinese countryside, a litter of well-fed piglets is a sign of a household’s prosperity: the image recalls the abundance the pair can create, without value as a rule or a forecast. The Pig is the twelfth animal, last of the cycle, yin and Water. Two Pigs evoke, in rural imagery, a prosperous farmyard; the image conveys abundance, without value as a rule.
Pig and Pig: the same branch, no gap
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.
They can be, with great gentleness. Same generosity, same taste for pleasure, same trust. They will do well to give themselves a few safeguards, since two naivetés added together are more exposed.
Understanding is immediate, because impulses and flaws are twins. No classical figure covers this case: it is lived as a kindly mirror.
Human warmth. They create an atmosphere of welcome, trust, and cheerfulness all around them. Their generosity is contagious.
Yes, since the Water is shared. An Earth Pig adds banks, a Metal Pig adds structure, a Fire Pig adds warmth: the color of each person’s birth year shapes the outline of the basin.