The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Goat and the Monkey are neighbors on the circle of twelve. They are not a harmony, a trine, a clash or a harm pair, so the classical tables call the pair neutral: nothing special pulls them together or apart.
The Goat is an earth sign and the Monkey a metal sign. In the generating cycle earth bears metal, so the Goat is read as the one who supports and the Monkey as the one who grows from it.
The Goat rules the summer month that starts around Jul 7 and the hours from 1 pm to 3 pm; the Monkey rules the autumn month that starts around Aug 8 and the hours from 3 pm to 5 pm.
For comparison, the Goat's harmony partner is the Horse and its trine partners are the Pig and the Rabbit; the Monkey's harmony partner is the Snake and its trine partners are the Rat and the Dragon.
Reading
In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Goat is artistic, kind and sensitive, and the Monkey is clever, playful and inventive. The Goat tends to bring care and creativity and look for reassurance; the Monkey tends to bring fresh solutions and look for variety.
In love, the zodiac neither helps nor blocks this pair, so the rest of each chart, and the two people, decide how it goes.
As friends or co-workers the support tends to run one way, so it helps when the one who gets it gives something back.
Years
Which years are these animals?
Goat years: 1955 (Wood Goat), 1967 (Fire Goat), 1979 (Earth Goat), 1991 (Metal Goat), 2003 (Water Goat), 2015 (Wood Goat), 2027 (Fire Goat).
Monkey years: 1956 (Fire Monkey), 1968 (Earth Monkey), 1980 (Metal Monkey), 1992 (Water Monkey), 2004 (Wood Monkey), 2016 (Fire Monkey), 2028 (Earth Monkey).
16 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Goat years.
23 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Monkey years.
Your pair
Check two birth years
A zodiac year starts in late January or February, not on January 1: Chinese New Year calendars switch at Lunar New Year, and saju switches at Lichun, around February 4. If you were born in January or early February, you may belong to the year before.
Beyond the birth year
On Bias Match the animal that counts most is not the birth year but the day branch, the animal in each person's day pillar. If two people's day branches are Goat (未) and Monkey (申), the compatibility calculator scores that check as zero, neither plus nor minus, next to five other checks.
The text is fixed sentence templates filled in with the classical relation tables built into the Bias Match engine; no AI model generates or rewrites it. For entertainment only: the zodiac describes old patterns, not what will happen between two people.