The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Ox and the Monkey are five steps apart on the circle of twelve, one short of facing each other. 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 Ox is an earth sign and the Monkey a metal sign. In the generating cycle earth bears metal, so the Ox is read as the one who supports and the Monkey as the one who grows from it.
The Ox rules the winter month that starts around Jan 6 and the hours from 1 am to 3 am; the Monkey rules the autumn month that starts around Aug 8 and the hours from 3 pm to 5 pm.
For comparison, the Ox's harmony partner is the Rat and its trine partners are the Snake and the Rooster; the Monkey's harmony partner is the Snake and its trine partners are the Rat and the Dragon.
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In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Ox is patient, steady and hard-working, and the Monkey is clever, playful and inventive. The Ox tends to bring reliability and look for loyalty; 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?
Ox years: 1949 (Earth Ox), 1961 (Metal Ox), 1973 (Water Ox), 1985 (Wood Ox), 1997 (Fire Ox), 2009 (Earth Ox), 2021 (Metal Ox).
Monkey years: 1956 (Fire Monkey), 1968 (Earth Monkey), 1980 (Metal Monkey), 1992 (Water Monkey), 2004 (Wood Monkey), 2016 (Fire Monkey), 2028 (Earth Monkey).
12 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Ox 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 Ox (丑) 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.