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Rabbit and Snake compatibility

The Rabbit (卯, yin wood) and the Snake (巳, yin fire) in the Chinese zodiac: how the classical tables pair them, and why.

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The tables

Why the pair is rated this way

The Rabbit and the Snake are two steps apart on the circle of twelve, both yin. 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 Rabbit is a wood sign and the Snake a fire sign. In the generating cycle wood feeds fire, so the Rabbit is read as the one who supports and the Snake as the one who grows from it.

The Rabbit rules the spring month that starts around Mar 6 and the hours from 5 am to 7 am; the Snake rules the summer month that starts around May 6 and the hours from 9 am to 11 am.

For comparison, the Rabbit's harmony partner is the Dog and its trine partners are the Pig and the Goat; the Snake's harmony partner is the Monkey and its trine partners are the Rooster and the Ox.

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In love, friendship and work

Traditionally the Rabbit is gentle, tactful and elegant, and the Snake is wise, intuitive and private. The Rabbit tends to bring kindness and calm and look for a peaceful home; the Snake tends to bring insight and look for trust.

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?

Rabbit years: 1951 (Metal Rabbit), 1963 (Water Rabbit), 1975 (Wood Rabbit), 1987 (Fire Rabbit), 1999 (Earth Rabbit), 2011 (Metal Rabbit), 2023 (Water Rabbit).

Snake years: 1953 (Water Snake), 1965 (Wood Snake), 1977 (Fire Snake), 1989 (Earth Snake), 2001 (Metal Snake), 2013 (Water Snake), 2025 (Wood Snake).

13 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Rabbit years.

17 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Snake 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 Rabbit (卯) and Snake (巳), 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.