The Ocean Dragon and The Vine Rooster

The Ocean Dragon sees someone who pulls unexpected things out of them. The Vine Rooster, looking back, sees someone who looks after 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.

Dragon and Rooster pair directly. This is the easiest kind of contact: agreement arrives before it is argued for, which is comfortable and occasionally means neither of you tests an assumption.

The Ocean Dragon brings Earth and Water, which The Vine Rooster's day pillar carries none of, and The Vine Rooster brings Wood and Metal, which The Ocean Dragon'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 Fire. A shared absence is harder to work with than a mismatch, because there is nobody in the pairing to notice it: this is a quality the two of you will consistently underrate in each other and in yourselves.