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Tiger Chinese Zodiac Sign: Traits, Love, Compatibility
The Tiger is one of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac, earthly branch 寅 (yín), the one of the double hour 03:00-05:00. Courage and passion - that is the heart of the character of anyone born in its year.
Tiger
The Tiger is courage, passion and a hunger to live loudly. A born leader, you go straight at things and you cannot stand a cage or anyone ruling over you. Your energy is catching, and nobody is bored beside you.
In love
In love you are ardent and generous, and you fall fast and hot. You need fire and room to breathe, while jealousy and control put you out.
In work
You do well where push, risk and leadership are needed: a launch, a breakthrough, a business of your own. Dull execution is hard for you to bear.
Strengths and weak spots
The 寅 branch: hour, direction and element
In the Chinese cycle this is the third of the twelve earthly branches, 寅 (yín). Tied to it are the double hour 03:00-05:00, the direction east-northeast and the fixed element Wood - standing correspondences that do not move with the element of the year. Its season is spring, and in the solar calendar of the four pillars the year starts at the beginning of spring rather than on the first of January.
The links are read off the branch. The trine of affinity gathers on a single element, here Fire: Horse and Dog. The pair of the six harmonies gives the Pig instead, which is a separate tradition. Straight across, six steps around the circle, stands the Monkey: the clash of branches, the most charged link of all.
What to keep in mind
The branch 寅 (yín) is a yearly measure: it is the same for everyone born between two Chinese New Years. The element of the year adds the shading - growth, generosity, idealism for Wood - while the hour and the city only show on a chart of the sky. For the year 2022 the switch falls on February 1: born before that date, you still count as the Ox. Your branch hands out no fate at all.
FAQ
Three questions about the branch 寅 (yín): its years, its affinities and its hour.
Which years are Tiger years, counting 2022?
1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022, 2034. The wheel brings the branch 寅 back every twelve years, while the element of the year turns on ten - so the pairing of animal and element only returns after sixty. If you were born in January or early February, check against the date of Chinese New Year: in 2022 it falls on February 1, and before that date the year still counts as the Ox.
Who does the Tiger get on with, Horse and Dog or Monkey?
The best understanding comes from the trine of affinity, Horse and Dog: all three resting on the element Fire. Apart from the trine, the pair of the six harmonies gives the Pig. The biggest snag comes from the opposite branch, six steps further: the Monkey. That said, the branch 寅 stays a yearly measure, and real understanding reads off two whole charts of the sky.
What hour and what direction belong to the branch 寅?
The double hour 03:00-05:00 and the direction east-northeast, with the fixed element Wood. Those correspondences belong to the branch itself: they do not move when the element of the year changes, the one that brings growth, generosity, idealism.
Tiger is only the year you were born. The Moon, the ascendant and the planets are waiting in the full chart.
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