The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Ox and the Tiger 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 Tiger is a wood sign and the Ox an earth sign. In the controlling cycle wood holds earth, so the Tiger is read as the one who sets limits and the Ox as the one who pushes against them.
The Ox rules the winter month that starts around Jan 6 and the hours from 1 am to 3 am; the Tiger rules the spring month that starts around Feb 4 and the hours from 3 am to 5 am.
For comparison, the Ox's harmony partner is the Rat and its trine partners are the Snake and the Rooster; the Tiger's harmony partner is the Pig and its trine partners are the Horse and the Dog.
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In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Ox is patient, steady and hard-working, and the Tiger is brave, competitive and warm-hearted. The Ox tends to bring reliability and look for loyalty; the Tiger tends to bring courage and look for respect.
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 keep each other in check, which can sharpen the work as long as neither tries to run the other.
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).
Tiger years: 1950 (Metal Tiger), 1962 (Water Tiger), 1974 (Wood Tiger), 1986 (Fire Tiger), 1998 (Earth Tiger), 2010 (Metal Tiger), 2022 (Water Tiger).
12 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Ox years.
10 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Tiger 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 Tiger (寅), 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.