The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Tiger and the Dragon are two steps apart on the circle of twelve, both yang. 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 Dragon an earth sign. In the controlling cycle wood holds earth, so the Tiger is read as the one who sets limits and the Dragon as the one who pushes against them.
The Tiger rules the spring month that starts around Feb 4 and the hours from 3 am to 5 am; the Dragon rules the spring month that starts around Apr 5 and the hours from 7 am to 9 am.
For comparison, the Tiger's harmony partner is the Pig and its trine partners are the Horse and the Dog; 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 Tiger is brave, competitive and warm-hearted, and the Dragon is confident, ambitious and magnetic. The Tiger tends to bring courage and look for respect; 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 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?
Tiger years: 1950 (Metal Tiger), 1962 (Water Tiger), 1974 (Wood Tiger), 1986 (Fire Tiger), 1998 (Earth Tiger), 2010 (Metal Tiger), 2022 (Water Tiger).
Dragon years: 1952 (Water Dragon), 1964 (Wood Dragon), 1976 (Fire Dragon), 1988 (Earth Dragon), 2000 (Metal Dragon), 2012 (Water Dragon), 2024 (Wood Dragon).
10 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Tiger 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 Tiger (寅) 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.