Rat and Ox Compatibility
“Paired across the wheel by the old calendar, and famously loyal about it.”
Rat and Ox make a secret friends in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 87 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Secret Friends
Rat and Ox are paired by Liu He, the six harmonies.
The six harmonies are the pairs tradition considers quietly unbreakable. On paper you look like an odd fit, and in practice you cover for each other with an instinct neither of you can really explain.
This bond makes excuses for itself. Because loyalty comes so easily, real problems can go unnamed for a very long time on the grounds that you are fine, obviously, you are always fine.
In the controlling cycle earth checks water, so Ox tends to be the brake on Rat. Useful in small doses, exhausting as a daily arrangement.
One yang, one yin: one of you moves first and the other reads the room, which is the oldest working arrangement there is.
Rat and Ox 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.
