⚠ The saju year turns at ipchun, around 4 February — not 1 January, and not Lunar New Year. Born in January or the first days of February? Your branch is the previous animal.
Yang water, wide and moving, the branch that closes the cycle. The Pig reads as generosity and breadth — it takes people as they come and gives without much accounting. The openness is genuine, and it makes discernment about who to give to the necessary skill.
Popular compatibility charts rarely say why. These come from two rule sets in the system — the harmony bindings (six harmony, three harmony) and the friction relations (clash, harm, destruction) — applied to your branch against all twelve. Everything below is computed, not written to fit.
Your branch and the Tiger bind directly — the classic pairing, read as easy mutual fit that settles rather than sparks.
You and the Rabbit belong to the same three-branch group, which together produce one element. Read as a shared direction: you tend to want the same things.
You and the Goat belong to the same three-branch group, which together produce one element. Read as a shared direction: you tend to want the same things.
You sit directly opposite the Snake on the cycle. Read as friction and movement — not doom, but a pairing that will not sit still.
A subtle mismatch with the Monkey — the traditional reading is crossed wires rather than open conflict, the kind that shows up in timing and tone.
No harmony or clash rule connects your branch to the Rat. Traditionally that is read as neutral — the pairing is decided by the rest of both charts, not by the animals.
No harmony or clash rule connects your branch to the Ox. Traditionally that is read as neutral — the pairing is decided by the rest of both charts, not by the animals.
No harmony or clash rule connects your branch to the Dragon. Traditionally that is read as neutral — the pairing is decided by the rest of both charts, not by the animals.
No harmony or clash rule connects your branch to the Horse. Traditionally that is read as neutral — the pairing is decided by the rest of both charts, not by the animals.
No harmony or clash rule connects your branch to the Rooster. Traditionally that is read as neutral — the pairing is decided by the rest of both charts, not by the animals.
No harmony or clash rule connects your branch to the Dog. Traditionally that is read as neutral — the pairing is decided by the rest of both charts, not by the animals.
The same branch as yours. Two of the same energy recognise each other instantly — and compete for the same ground just as fast.
One branch each is a thin comparison
Two full charts give a 0–100 score with every component shown — day-pillar chemistry, element complementarity, and all the harmonies and clashes across four pillars, not one. The snapshot is free.
Compare our charts — freeYour day branch says far more than your year branch. If you were born on a Pig day, one of these is your day pillar.
1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031 and every twelfth year before and after. One warning that matters: the saju year turns at ipchun, around 4 February — not on 1 January and not at Lunar New Year. If you were born in January or the first days of February, your branch is the previous animal.
By the branch rules: Tiger (Six Harmony), Rabbit (Three Harmony), Goat (Three Harmony). Friction relations run to Snake (Clash), Monkey (Harm). These describe one character out of the eight in each person's chart, so treat them as a first note rather than a verdict.
Only thinly. Your animal is your year branch — one of eight characters, shared with roughly a twelfth of everyone alive. The character that stands for you is the top of your day pillar, and it changes every single day. That is where a real reading starts.
Same twelve animals in the same order — Korea keeps the Rabbit where Vietnam uses the Cat. In Korean the Pig is the 돼지 (亥), romanised Hai in Mandarin. What differs between the traditions is the reading culture, not the cycle.
Branch relations are computed from the Ioreum engine’s harmony and clash tables (ruleset ioreum-2026.07) — the same tables our compatibility score uses. The character readings are interpretation from tradition, not verified science.