COMPATIBILITY
The Diamond Pig and The Mountain Monkey
Quiet, persistent friction that neither will find easy to name.
Chemistry
Volatile
Engagement without much that softens it. High energy, high cost.
- Pig and Monkey rub+9
- The Mountain Monkey covers a missing element+6
- The Diamond Pig covers a missing element+6
Chemistry measures how much is engaged between two charts — not how easy it is. A high score can mean friction.
The Diamond Pig sees The Mountain Monkey as
Nurturer
someone who looks after them
The Mountain Monkey sees The Diamond Pig as
Provocateur
someone who pulls unexpected things out of them
The Diamond Pig sees someone who looks after them. The Mountain Monkey, looking back, sees someone who pulls unexpected things out of them. These are not the same thing, and that gap is the most useful fact on this page: each of you is having a different experience of the same relationship. Most friction between these two charts starts there rather than in anything either of you does.
Pig and Monkey rub. This is the quiet kind of friction: nothing dramatic, just a low, persistent mismatch in pace or priority that both of you will find hard to name.
The Diamond Pig brings Water, which The Mountain Monkey's day pillar carries none of, and The Mountain Monkey brings Earth, which The Diamond Pig's carries none of. The exchange runs both ways, which tends to hold up longer than a one-directional one — neither of you is only the giver.
Neither day pillar carries Wood and Fire. A shared absence is harder to work with than a mismatch, because there is nobody in the pairing to notice it: these are qualities the two of you will consistently underrate in each other and in yourselves.
Between the two of them
- WOOD
- 0
- FIRE
- 0
- EARTH
- 1
- METAL
- 2
- WATER
- 1
Counted across both day pillars. A zero is a quality neither chart carries.
This is the day pillar only
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