Tiger and Monkey Compatibility
“Directly opposite on the wheel, six branches apart, pulling against each other by design.”
Tiger and Monkey make a the clash in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 26 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 Clash
Tiger and Monkey are set opposite by Liu Chong, the six clashes.
Clashes are the loudest pairing in the lunar zodiac and the least boring. You are opposite in the way a crowbar is opposite to a stuck door, and when you are pointed at the same problem it does not stand a chance.
Pointed at each other, the same force goes exactly where you would expect. Clash pairs need a shared project more than most, because without one the only thing left to apply all that energy to is the argument.
In the controlling cycle metal checks wood, so Monkey tends to be the brake on Tiger. Useful in small doses, exhausting as a daily arrangement.
Both yang: outward, fast, and expressive, with nobody assigned to the quiet half of the room.
Tiger 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.
