Two animals · their fixed branch coordinates
辰申
Dragon and Monkey compatibility
Dragon and Monkey sit 4 places apart on the twelve-branch circle. Their compatibility reading begins with that geometry, then adds the phases and trines attached to the two positions.
- Branch relation
- Shared trine
- Phase relation
- Earth generates Metal
- Circle distance
- 4 of 6 steps
The coordinates beneath the animal names
Read the two branches first
The animal is the familiar label. The branch fixes the position, phase, polarity, month, double-hour and direction used by the comparison.
辰
Dragon
Chen · Yang Earth
- Circle position
- 5 of 12
- Fixed phase
- Earth
- Double-hour
- 07:00–08:59
- Month opens
- 清明 Clear and Bright
- Direction
- East-southeast
- Trine phase
- Water
申
Monkey
Shen · Yang Metal
- Circle position
- 9 of 12
- Fixed phase
- Metal
- Double-hour
- 15:00–16:59
- Month opens
- 立秋 Start of Autumn
- Direction
- West-southwest
- Trine phase
- Water
Inside both branches · 藏干
What Dragon and Monkey carry beneath the surface
Each Earthly Branch contains a fixed list of one to three Heavenly Stems. Comparing the two inventories shows whether this pair repeats an exact stem, shares only a phase, or keeps the two internal lists separate.
戊 Wu
Dragon and Monkey both contain 戊 Wu. Internal phase overlap: Earth · Water.
Every matching set stays visible
The named branch relationships
Harmony, trine, meeting, clash, harm, break and punishment are different sets. A pair can appear in more than one, so no match replaces another.
Fixed branch phases · 十二支五行
Earth generates Metal
Earth, carried by the first branch, moves into Metal along the generating cycle. The direction matters: reversing the names would describe a different phase relationship.
This is the phase fixed to each Earthly Branch. A birth year also has a stem phase — for example, Fire Rat or Metal Rat — which is a separate coordinate.
The three-branch groups around the pair
Both point to the Water trine
A trine is complete only when all three of its branches are present. One or two selected animals locate positions inside that group without inventing its missing members.
Water trine
From a year pair to a four-pillar chart
What this pair establishes — and what comes next
The comparison establishes the fixed relationship between 辰 and 申. It does not turn two birth-year animals into a verdict about the whole relationship. In a Four Pillars chart, branches also appear at the month, day and hour layers, and each occurrence meets the rest of both charts.