Liù Hé · fixed Earthly Branch relation

六合

Six Harmony 六合: 6 Chinese Zodiac Animal Pairs

Six Harmony pairs Rat–Ox, Tiger–Pig, Rabbit–Dog, Dragon–Rooster, Snake–Monkey and Horse–Goat. Compare their branches and overlapping relationships.

Records
6
Unit
one-to-one pairs
Pair order
Unordered
六合Rat · Ox

Every inherited record, without collapsing overlaps

The complete Six Harmony ledger

Open any linked pair for its phases, trines, branch distance, month, hour and direction. Group relations keep all members visible even when only two were selected.

  1. 01

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    Rat and Ox

    子 and 丑 form pair 1 of six. They sit 1 place apart and carry Water and Earth.

    子RatPosition 1 · Water
    丑OxPosition 2 · Earth
  2. 02

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    Tiger and Pig

    寅 and 亥 form pair 2 of six. They sit 3 places apart and carry Wood and Water.

    寅TigerPosition 3 · Wood
    亥PigPosition 12 · Water
  3. 03

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    Rabbit and Dog

    卯 and 戌 form pair 3 of six. They sit 5 places apart and carry Wood and Earth.

    卯RabbitPosition 4 · Wood
    戌DogPosition 11 · Earth
  4. 04

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    Dragon and Rooster

    辰 and 酉 form pair 4 of six. They sit 5 places apart and carry Earth and Metal.

    辰DragonPosition 5 · Earth
    酉RoosterPosition 10 · Metal
  5. 05

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    Snake and Monkey

    巳 and 申 form pair 5 of six. They sit 3 places apart and carry Fire and Metal.

    巳SnakePosition 6 · Fire
    申MonkeyPosition 9 · Metal
  6. 06

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    Horse and Goat

    午 and 未 form pair 6 of six. They sit 1 place apart and carry Fire and Earth.

    午HorsePosition 7 · Fire
    未GoatPosition 8 · Earth

How the inherited set is built

One partner for every branch

The twelve branches divide cleanly into six pairs: Zi with Chou, Yin with Hai, Mao with Xu, Chen with You, Si with Shen, and Wu with Wei. No branch belongs to two Six Harmony pairs.

A pair page keeps Six Harmony beside any relation that overlaps it. Tiger–Pig and Snake–Monkey, for example, are also Six Break pairs; calling one relation does not erase the other.

What it establishes
It establishes that two branches occupy one of the six fixed 六合 pairings and gives the exact two coordinates involved.

Year, month, day and hour stay distinct

Where Six Harmony enters a chart

In a Four Pillars comparison, look for the two branches wherever they occur—year, month, day or hour. Their layer tells you where the pairing appears; the Six Harmony label only names the fixed branch relation.