The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Ox and the Dragon are a quarter turn apart 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.
Both are earth signs, the Ox yin and the Dragon yang, so in five-element terms they speak the same language.
The Ox rules the winter month that starts around Jan 6 and the hours from 1 am to 3 am; the Dragon rules the spring month that starts around Apr 5 and the hours from 7 am to 9 am.
For comparison, the Ox's harmony partner is the Rat and its trine partners are the Snake and the Rooster; the Dragon's harmony partner is the Rooster and its trine partners are the Monkey and the Rat.
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In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Ox is patient, steady and hard-working, and the Dragon is confident, ambitious and magnetic. The Ox tends to bring reliability and look for loyalty; the Dragon tends to bring big ideas and look for admiration.
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 they tend to move at the same pace and understand each other quickly.
Years
Which years are these animals?
Ox years: 1949 (Earth Ox), 1961 (Metal Ox), 1973 (Water Ox), 1985 (Wood Ox), 1997 (Fire Ox), 2009 (Earth Ox), 2021 (Metal Ox).
Dragon years: 1952 (Water Dragon), 1964 (Wood Dragon), 1976 (Fire Dragon), 1988 (Earth Dragon), 2000 (Metal Dragon), 2012 (Water Dragon), 2024 (Wood Dragon).
12 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Ox years.
21 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Dragon 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 Ox (丑) and Dragon (辰), 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.