Two animals · their fixed branch coordinates
丑戌
Ox and Dog compatibility
Ox and Dog sit 3 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
- Punishment
- Phase relation
- Both branches carry Earth
- Circle distance
- 3 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.
丑
Ox
Chou · Yin Earth
- Circle position
- 2 of 12
- Fixed phase
- Earth
- Double-hour
- 01:00–02:59
- Month opens
- 小寒 Minor Cold
- Direction
- North-northeast
- Trine phase
- Metal
戌
Dog
Xu · Yang Earth
- Circle position
- 11 of 12
- Fixed phase
- Earth
- Double-hour
- 19:00–20:59
- Month opens
- 寒露 Cold Dew
- Direction
- West-northwest
- Trine phase
- Fire
Inside both branches · 藏干
What Ox and Dog 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.
辛 Xin
Ox and Dog both contain 辛 Xin. Internal phase overlap: Earth · Metal.
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.
- 01三刑
Shared Punishment group
Punishment of BullyingOx, Dog, Goat form the Punishment of Bullying pattern. The selected pair identifies two positions in the group; the remaining member completes its three branches.
Fixed branch phases · 十二支五行
Both branches carry Earth
The fixed branch phase repeats: both positions carry Earth. 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
The pair belongs to two trines
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.
Metal trine
Fire 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 丑 and 戌. 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.