Monkey and Monkey Compatibility
“Two people who both spotted the angle, and are both wondering what the other is up to.”
Monkey and Monkey make a mirror branch in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 71 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Mirror Branch
Two Monkeys, sharing a single branch of the twelve.
Two Monkeys make the quickest and least restful household in the cycle. Both of you are inventive, both are entertained by your own cleverness, and neither has ever done a thing the long way. There is real pleasure in living with someone who keeps up: nothing has to be explained, every joke lands, and between you a problem is solved in the time most people take to describe it. What is missing is anybody willing to be plain. Two people who both perform, deflect and improvise can go years without either saying a single unguarded thing, and both of you will privately notice.
You are never bored and never patronised. Neither of you needs the other to be simpler, and the conversation is genuinely first rate. Practically you are formidable: two Monkeys will find a way through almost anything, and neither hesitates or moralises about the route. You also both recover instantly from a row, mostly by being distracted by something more interesting, which is unserious and works.
Neither of you is quite honest, and each of you knows exactly what the other is doing because it is what you would do. So a low-grade watchfulness sets in and never lifts. Both of you also avoid the vulnerable conversation by being funny, and after enough years the funniness is the entire relationship. And nothing gets finished: two people who lose interest at the same moment leave a remarkable quantity of half-built things behind them.
Two metal signs: precise, principled, and capable of a very cold silence when standards slip.
Both yang: outward, fast, and expressive, with nobody assigned to the quiet half of the room.
Monkey 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.
