Pig and Pig Compatibility

“Two people who stopped to eat, fell asleep, and are perfectly content about it.”

Pig and Pig make a doubled branch in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 57 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.

The Reading · Doubled Branch

Two Pigs, sharing a single branch of the twelve.

Two Pigs make the most comfortable household in the cycle and the least governed. Both of you are generous, both are entirely without malice, and neither has ever seen the point of hurrying or of competing. The house is warm, the table is full, and everyone who comes through is welcome and fed. What is missing is any brake at all: Pig's own indulgence is doubled here with nothing to check it, and neither of you will ever be the one to say that this has gone far enough. Both of you stopped to eat and fell asleep, and there is nobody left in the race to wake you.

What works

Nobody is judged and nobody is hurried. You are both kind by default, both forgive automatically, and neither is capable of the wounding remark or the score kept in silence. The pleasures are real and shared, and the generosity runs both ways without either of you counting. For two signs that are routinely taken advantage of elsewhere, being with someone who wants nothing is a considerable rest.

Where it snags

Everything slides. Money, health, the job that stopped being any good, the friend who has been taking advantage for years: none of it will be addressed, because addressing it would be unpleasant and neither of you does unpleasant. You also indulge each other's worst habits, out of kindness, until they are no longer small. And when something genuinely has to be decided, both of you will wait, indefinitely, for the other to raise it first.

Two water signs: adaptable and deep, and quietly willing to flow around a problem for years rather than name it.

Both yin: inward, receptive, and observant, which is restful until something needs saying out loud.

Pig 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.