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The Pig
Generous without keeping score
The animal on this page is not the one from your birth year. That one comes from the year branch; this one comes from the branch of the day you were born — the day branch, as a reading calls it. Everything below is about that seat.
You and I have both handed something over and forgotten we did it. That is the good part and the expensive part.
The Pig in Korean Saju
You give without keeping accounts, and you enjoy things properly rather than performatively. People relax around you, which is a real skill even if nobody calls it one. The cost is that you assume the same generosity is coming back.
The basics of this character
- Hours it governs
- 9pm – 11pm
- Its month
- November 7 – December 7
- early winter
- Element
- Yin Water
- Yang reaches outward, Yin gathers in
- Place in the cycle
- 12th of twelve
As your day branch
The Pig closes the cycle — a day branch of abundance and good faith, water at rest.
What this animal is like in a chart
The Pig closes the cycle in early winter — Water gathering, the year’s work done and being enjoyed. A Pig day branch is read as abundance and good faith: generosity without bookkeeping, appetite without apology, and the social gift of making a room relax. It favours hospitality, teaching, and every trade built on people lowering their guard.
It assumes the other side is the same. Its Water hides Wood — the next spring already germinating in the rest — which is why the tradition reads Pig days as more forward-looking than they appear. The cost is symmetry: a Pig day assumes the generosity flows both ways, and keeps assuming it for some time after the evidence has stopped agreeing.
With the other animals
Bound to — The Tiger
The Pig and the Tiger make one of the six harmonies (六合) — the closest tie two branches can hold. Day charts pairing them are read as binding: easy to fall into, hard to leave.
Struck against — The Snake
The Snake sits directly opposite the Pig on the cycle — the classical clash (沖). Not incompatibility: a pairing that will not let either side stay where it was.
Allied with — The Rabbit & The Goat
With the Rabbit and the Goat, the Pig completes a three-harmony triad (三合) that pulls toward Wood — three branches that convert best as a team.
Most people have never been told theirs. It takes a birth date, and a minute.