Snake and Goat Compatibility
“One of you has a plan. The other one has a feeling about it, and is usually right.”
Snake and Goat make an open ground in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 69 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
Snake and Goat have no fixed tie in the branch cycle: no inherited alliance, and no inherited quarrel.
Snake and Goat have no tie in the branch cycle and an unexpectedly comfortable temperament match. Both of you dislike noise, both work indirectly, and neither has any wish to be in charge of a room. Snake operates by judgement and Goat by instinct, and the two turn out to agree far more often than either expects. What makes this work when it works is that Goat asks nothing of Snake's privacy, being fairly private itself, and Snake does not require Goat to be practical or decisive, having no great respect for either quality in others. It is a quiet, aesthetic, faintly indolent pairing.
Neither of you crowds the other. Snake gives Goat the judgement and the spine it does not generate alone, quietly steering rather than instructing, which is the only form of guidance a Goat will accept. Goat gives Snake something rarer: an affection with no calculation in it at all, offered to a sign that is used to being wanted for its usefulness. You also share a real taste for beauty and comfort, and the home you make is better than either would manage separately.
Nobody decides anything. Snake waits and Goat drifts, and a practical problem can sit for years with both of you fully aware of it. Snake's withholding also unsettles a Goat that needs frequent reassurance, and Goat's method of asking for reassurance is to become vaguely unhappy in the vicinity, which Snake finds manipulative even when it is not. Neither of you raises it, so the disappointment simply settles in and becomes the temperature of the house.
In the generating cycle fire feeds earth, so Snake supplies what Goat runs on. That direction is worth knowing: the giving here is not symmetrical.
Both yin: inward, receptive, and observant, which is restful until something needs saying out loud.
Snake and Goat 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.
