Monkey and Pig Compatibility
“One of you is being clever. The other one did not notice, and would not have minded.”
Monkey and Pig make the hidden harm in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 49 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · The Hidden Harm
Monkey and Pig are crossed by Liu Hai, the six harms.
Monkey and Pig are a harm pair, and it is the gentlest and most one-sided harm in the cycle. Pig is trusting, generous and entirely without suspicion; Monkey is quick, opportunistic and cannot resist an easy angle. Nothing here is malicious. What happens is simply that Pig makes no defence and Monkey, without ever deciding to, takes the small advantages that are lying there, and the account slowly runs one way. Pig does not object, because objecting is not what Pig does, and Monkey does not notice, because Monkey is not counting. By the time it is visible it has been the shape of things for years.
Pig's warmth is genuinely good for a Monkey, who is used to being valued for being useful or entertaining and finds in a Pig someone who simply likes it. Monkey in return is excellent company and looks after the practical cleverness of a life, which Pig will not do at all. There is real fondness in this and no aggression whatsoever: it is an easy household, and both of you enjoy it while it lasts.
Monkey takes and Pig gives, and neither of you names it. Pig's eventual response is not a row but a quiet withdrawal of faith, arriving without warning after years of apparent contentment, and Monkey is genuinely astonished. From the other side, Monkey's teasing wears a hole in a Pig that never answers back, and Monkey reads the lack of an answer as permission. Neither of you is capable of raising it, which is what makes it slow.
In the generating cycle metal feeds water, so Monkey supplies what Pig 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.
Monkey and Pig 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.
