Crossed Pair怨嗔

Crossed Pair names two branches that resent and bristle at each other, as the characters of the name say. Old readings pictured it through the zodiac animals and passed six pairs down almost as a rhyme: the rat dislikes the horns of the goat, and the ox resents the horse for not ploughing. Unlike a push, the two do not face off head-on; the grain is quiet irritation and feelings that miss each other. This service uses it to look at the subtle tension running between two characters within one chart.

• 怨resentment, to resent (Korean reading: won)
• 嗔to fume, to be cross (Korean reading: jin)

Resenting and fuming: the strained footing between two characters that do not sit well together.

Every pair of branches among the four pillars is formed, and a pair matching one of six set pairs is a Crossed Pair. Neither the order of the two nor whether their seats are adjacent matters. The six pairs sit one step aside from branches that face each other directly, so the two are five or seven places apart around the circle. With no birth hour, pairs involving the hour branch are not formed.

Crossed Pair is examined as a spot where unspoken hurt can build up between people close to each other. Where the two characters sit hints at which area of life the tension concerns, but it is not a ruling that a relationship goes sour. Without it, you may clear up what bothers you fairly quickly. Some readings turn it into a gift for sensing other people's feelings with care.

Consider 戊午 (Wu Wu) year, 乙卯 (Yi Mao) month, 丙子 (Bing Zi) day, and 乙未 (Yi Wei) hour. The day branch 子 (Zi) and the hour branch 未 (Wei) form a Crossed Pair. That pair is not a Keen Gate pair, so Crossed Pair shows up here without Keen Gate.

• A common idea

  People whose zodiac animals form a Crossed Pair struggle to live together.

  How we read it

  The worry starts from folk readings that compare two people's birth-year animals. This service does not compare animals; in compatibility a Crossed Pair is one of several day-branch relations it notes, not a ruling on life together.

• A common idea

  Crossed Pair and a push are the same thing.

  How we read it

  Both relate two branches, but a push joins branches directly opposite each other, while a Crossed Pair sits one step to the side. It is not possible for one pair to be both.

The six pairs are nearly the same from book to book, but their scope varies. Some readings weigh them only beside the day branch, while others, like this service, count pairs in distant seats too. Four of the six, 丑午 (Chou Wu), 卯申 (Mao Shen), 辰亥 (Chen Hai), and 巳戌 (Si Xu), overlap with Keen Gate.