The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Tiger and the Snake are one of the six harms (六害). The reason is in the tables: the Tiger's harmony partner is the Pig, which the Snake clashes with, and the Snake's harmony partner is the Monkey, which the Tiger clashes with. Each one stands in the way of the other's closest bond.
They are also two of the three branches of a punishment trio (三刑), Tiger 寅, Snake 巳 and Monkey 申, an old pattern read as friction that comes from inside a group rather than from outside it.
The Tiger is a wood sign and the Snake a fire sign. In the generating cycle wood feeds fire, so the Tiger is read as the one who supports and the Snake as the one who grows from it.
The Tiger rules the spring month that starts around Feb 4 and the hours from 3 am to 5 am; the Snake rules the summer month that starts around May 6 and the hours from 9 am to 11 am.
For comparison, the Tiger's harmony partner is the Pig and its trine partners are the Horse and the Dog; the Snake's harmony partner is the Monkey and its trine partners are the Rooster and the Ox.
Reading
In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Tiger is brave, competitive and warm-hearted, and the Snake is wise, intuitive and private. The Tiger tends to bring courage and look for respect; the Snake tends to bring insight and look for trust.
In love, a harm pair is read as one where small slights pile up, so plain talk early tends to work better than quietly keeping score.
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?
Tiger years: 1950 (Metal Tiger), 1962 (Water Tiger), 1974 (Wood Tiger), 1986 (Fire Tiger), 1998 (Earth Tiger), 2010 (Metal Tiger), 2022 (Water Tiger).
Snake years: 1953 (Water Snake), 1965 (Wood Snake), 1977 (Fire Snake), 1989 (Earth Snake), 2001 (Metal Snake), 2013 (Water Snake), 2025 (Wood Snake).
10 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Tiger 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 Tiger (寅) 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.