The Meadow Snake and The Mist Pig

The Meadow Snake sees something worth pursuing. The Mist Pig, looking back, sees a standard they feel measured against. 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.

Snake sits directly opposite Pig. Opposition is not incompatibility — it is the pairing that generates the most movement. It also means neither of you gets to be lazy, and there will be days when that is exhausting rather than energising.

The Meadow Snake brings Fire and Earth, which The Mist Pig's day pillar carries none of, and The Mist Pig brings Water, which The Meadow Snake'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 Metal. 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.