兔 Rabbit and Dragon 龍
The Dragon takes the room, the Rabbit takes less of it.
Compatibility score
Difficult · 48% · Liu Hai — harm
Scored from the classical Chinese relations — San He, Liu He, Chong and Hai — not from Western sun-sign logic. A full Chinese reading also weighs the year element, the month branch and the hour pillar.
The verdict
In the old calendar Chen is the month the dragon wakes, rises on the spring thunder and brings the rain the fields have been waiting for; Mao is the moon's rabbit, sitting still beneath a tree, pounding herbs by hand. Both are useful. Only one of them fills a room. They are neighbouring branches, and the six-harm scheme sets them against each other in the quietest way available: the Rabbit never fights for space, it simply occupies less, and after two years there is measurably less Rabbit in the house. The Dragon is usually the last to find out, and tends to be sincerely taken aback when it is finally said aloud, because from where it stood everything had been perfectly agreeable.
What works
- Chen thunder opens doors the Rabbit would have walked straight past without knocking
- Mao wood grows by increments, and the Rabbit finishes the projects the Dragon abandoned at the exciting part
- The Rabbit reads people accurately and can spare the Dragon a bad hire or a worse partner
Where it strains
- The Dragon decides at volume and at speed, and the Rabbit's slower preference never reaches the table in time
- Silence from a Rabbit is not consent, but it is indistinguishable from consent and gets counted as consent
- Chen is a storehouse branch that keeps what it gathers, while Mao gives ground, so the holdings drift one way
The one thing to get right
Once a week let the Rabbit choose first and without commentary — the restaurant, the weekend, the hire — and have the Dragon agree before it hears any of the reasoning.
Frequently asked questions
Are the Rabbit and Dragon compatible?
Rabbit and Dragon compatibility rates 48% overall — difficult. In the old calendar Chen is the month the dragon wakes, rises on the spring thunder and brings the rain the fields have been waiting for; Mao is the moon's rabbit, sitting still beneath a tree, pounding herbs by hand. Both are useful. Only one of them fills a room. They are neighbouring branches, and the six-harm scheme sets them against each other in the quietest way available: the Rabbit never fights for space, it simply occupies less, and after two years there is measurably less Rabbit in the house. The Dragon is usually the last to find out, and tends to be sincerely taken aback when it is finally said aloud, because from where it stood everything had been perfectly agreeable.
What is the biggest problem between the Rabbit and the Dragon?
The Dragon decides at volume and at speed, and the Rabbit's slower preference never reaches the table in time. Once a week let the Rabbit choose first and without commentary — the restaurant, the weekend, the hire — and have the Dragon agree before it hears any of the reasoning.
What is the classical relation between the Rabbit and the Dragon?
They are a Liu Hai — harm pairing. Chen thunder opens doors the Rabbit would have walked straight past without knocking.