Tiger and Pig Compatibility
“One of you arrived furious. The other one arrived late, and had already forgiven it.”
Tiger and Pig make secret friends in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 96 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
Tiger and Pig are paired by Liu He, the six harmonies.
Tiger and Pig are secret friends in the cycle, and the pairing is stranger and better than it looks. Tiger is force, temper and immediate action; Pig stopped to eat, fell asleep, and finished the race anyway with no evident concern about the result. What Pig does for a Tiger is refuse to be alarmed by it. The rages, the charges, the enormous convictions all land on a person who is genuinely unbothered and remains fond throughout, and no Tiger has ever had that before. In return Tiger takes Pig entirely seriously and defends it fiercely, which is what a Pig, endlessly taken advantage of by other people, has been waiting for.
Pig's good nature is the perfect ground for a Tiger's temper: nothing sticks, nothing escalates, and a rage that would become a two-week silence elsewhere is simply over. Tiger's protection is exactly what a Pig lacks, since Pig will not defend itself and Tiger requires no invitation. Neither of you is calculating, both are generous, and there is a warmth in this pairing that neither of you would ever attempt to describe out loud.
Tiger's temper does more damage than Tiger knows, because Pig absorbs it and says nothing, and the absorbing has a limit that arrives without warning. Tiger also finds Pig's tolerance maddening: watching someone be imposed on and decline to object is close to unbearable for a Tiger, and Tiger will intervene, loudly, in situations Pig had chosen to let go. There is also nobody here driving anything: Pig will not push and Tiger's efforts arrive in bursts.
In the generating cycle water feeds wood, so Pig supplies what Tiger 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.
Tiger 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.
