Chinese zodiac
Does a Chinese zodiac clash mean a bad match?
No. A Clash (六冲) names a relation between two zodiac-year branches. Fengshui Forever includes it as one part of a reading for two. It cannot tell you how either person feels or what will happen between you.
Which zodiac animals form a Clash?
The twelve year branches run in a cycle. A Clash pairs branches six places apart. Rat (子) and Horse (午) sit opposite each other in that cycle. The app recognizes six such pairs:
- Rat and Horse · 子午
- Ox and Goat · 丑未
- Tiger and Monkey · 寅申
- Rabbit and Rooster · 卯酉
- Dragon and Dog · 辰戌
- Snake and Pig · 巳亥
A Clash describes the two birth-year branches. It says nothing about either person's character. If either birthday falls in January or early February, check the Lunar New Year boundary before choosing an animal.
Sam and Lee: two views of the same pair
Imagine Sam was born on April 15, 1984, and Lee on August 15, 1990. From their dates, Fengshui Forever finds an Aries Sun and Rat year for Sam, and a Leo Sun and Horse year for Lee. Their Western Sun signs form a trine. Their Chinese year branches form a Clash (六冲).
The app shows both relations alongside the other available chart details. With only these dates entered, the exact overall result remains uncertain. The browser reading shows a question-mark result; more birth details could change it in either direction.
A question for the two of you
If you're getting to know each other, ask what has felt easy or surprising so far. If you've been together for years, ask which differences you've learned to make room for. You can disagree with the reading.
What else goes into the reading?
Birth dates also give the app Western Sun signs and Chinese birth-year elements. Birth times, birthplaces and stated sex are optional inputs for other chart details. The reading shows what it used and what it left out. See how the reading and its result work.
The Western and Chinese example looks more closely at Sam and Lee's two views. For a different year-branch relation, see the Dragon and Rooster Six Harmony example.
Example note: Sam and Lee are a synthetic, date-only pair checked against the app's Sun, zodiac-year and whole-result rules. The example does not display a full generated reading. The Hong Kong Observatory's 1984 calendar and 1990 calendar identify the zodiac years. A Shandong University of Technology page lists the six opposing branch pairs. The app uses its own rules to combine chart details.