Two animals · their fixed branch coordinates
申申
Monkey and Monkey compatibility
This comparison repeats the Monkey branch in two chart positions. It checks what that repetition carries before the surrounding pillars are added.
- Branch relation
- Same branch
- Phase relation
- Both branches carry Metal
- Circle distance
- Same position
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.
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
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 the repeated Monkey branch carries beneath the surface
This comparison places the same Earthly Branch in two chart positions. Its fixed hidden-stem inventory repeats with it, so the one list below applies to both positions.
庚 Geng · 壬 Ren · 戊 Wu
The Monkey branch repeats, so its hidden-stem inventory repeats in full. Internal phase overlap: Earth · Metal · 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.
- 01
Both selections occupy branch 申, position 9 of twelve. The coordinate repeats instead of joining two different positions.
Fixed branch phases · 十二支五行
Both branches carry Metal
The fixed branch phase repeats: both positions carry Metal. This is a shared coordinate, not a generating or controlling step between two phases.
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 申 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.