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Chinese astrology has a 12-animal zodiac, and all 12 animals will form different dynamic with the other animals. Your Chinese zodiac animal will show your behaviors: A monkey likes to grab onto branches and pick at seeds, a phoenix likes to swoop and hunt using its razor-sharp vision, and a rabbit observes everything and dances to express its moods. Have you ever tried to introduce a dog and a cat? The cat might climb up high while the dog shrinks back in fright.

Every animal has a different set of tendencies and behaviors. Some animals will complement each other perfectly. Other animals scare each other at first and need time to adjust! Jump to: Your bazi natal chart The 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac are also called the 12 earthly branches.



This is a simplified guide about how these twelve animals interact with each other. While most people know their year animal, your bazi natal chart is a set of four pillars, each with its own animal or earthly branch. You can look up all four pillars in your bazi natal using an online chart calculator such as .

You’ll need to work with all four animals in your bazi natal chart to get a full sense of compatibility. However, even just your year animal can tell you a lot. The year pillar in Chinese astrology represents the patterns in your lineage.

If you match with someone based on your year animal, your lineages are compatible, but this doesn’t mean that your personalities are! For that, you’ll need to look at your day animal. For.

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