Goat and Monkey Compatibility
“One of you poled the raft. The other one made it somewhere worth arriving at.”
Goat and Monkey make an open ground in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 67 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Open Ground
Goat and Monkey have no fixed tie in the branch cycle: no inherited alliance, and no inherited quarrel.
Goat and Monkey shared a raft across the river with a Rooster, and the division of labour on it has not changed since. Monkey cleared the weeds and did the poling and enjoyed the entire crossing; Goat was aboard, unbothered, contributing nothing anyone could point to and improving it considerably. There is no formal tie between you in the cycle, and what you have instead is a habit of cooperation that neither of you finds effortful. Monkey supplies the invention and the energy; Goat supplies the taste and the absence of any competition at all, which Monkey, who is competitive with almost everyone, finds unexpectedly restful.
Monkey does the practical clever things a Goat cannot be bothered with, and does them cheerfully rather than resentfully, because Monkey enjoys being the capable one. Goat in return gives Monkey an audience with no agenda and genuine appreciation, and a home that is a pleasure to return to. Neither of you is aggressive, both are creative, and the two of you make things together that neither would have made alone.
Monkey's teasing lands on the one sign least equipped to shrug it off, and Goat will not tell Monkey it has landed, so Monkey does it again. Meanwhile Goat's need for reassurance strikes Monkey as an unreasonable ongoing tax, and Monkey's method of avoiding it is simply to be elsewhere. Neither of you is reliable about the dull half of a life, and neither will be the one who raises it, so it goes on quietly getting worse.
In the generating cycle earth feeds metal, so Goat supplies what Monkey runs on. That direction is worth knowing: the giving here is not symmetrical.
One yang, one yin: one of you moves first and the other reads the room, which is the oldest working arrangement there is.
Goat and Monkey in the Ancient Zodiac
An animal year is half of a reading. Which of the twelve Ancient Zodiac signs each of these two actually carries depends on the season they were born in, and the pairing below is where the reading gets specific.
