Zodiac compatibility

Rat and Tiger

Nothing fixed, the traditional way

No built-in pull, and no built-in friction

The Rat and the Tiger neither pair up nor clash. Tradition has nothing particular to say about this combination, which sounds like a let-down and isn’t: it means the year animals aren’t deciding anything for you.

That leaves the relationship to the rest of both charts and, mostly, to what you two actually do. More say than most pairings get.

Together, at work, as friends

In a relationship nothing is decided for you here, which is more freedom than most pairings get. How it goes comes down to your actual charts and your actual behaviour rather than anything the year animals are doing.

At work there’s no built-in friction and no built-in shortcut. You’ll get on if the work suits you both, and that’s about the whole of it.

As friends this is the ordinary kind that turns into a good one with time. No sparks, no grating, nothing in the way.

Water meets Wood

The Rat is Water and the Tiger is Wood, and Water feeds Wood. In practice that’s a pairing where one side gives and the other grows. Lovely, as long as it isn’t always the same side giving.

Your birth year is the smallest part of this

Everyone born in a Rat year shares this page, and there were about twelve million of them. A Saju reader doesn’t match people on their birth year: they read the day you were born first, because that’s the part of a chart that stands for you and the person beside you. In our own match score the birth-year animals are worth 15 points out of 100, and the day animals 30.

So take the reading above as the weather, not the forecast. Two birthdays give the real thing: both day animals, both Day Masters, and how your elements balance each other.

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