Goat and Monkey compatibility

What the book says

Goat and Monkey have none of the relations: no harmony, clash, punishment, harm or break. The book has nothing to say about this pair in particular.

Their elements

The Goat is Earth and the Monkey is Metal: Earth feeds Metal.

How much it counts

A sign is one character of the eight in a BaZi chart, the year’s branch. The book reads these relations between the pillars of one chart, and tells the reader to look at the whole chart’s elements first:

Clash and break, three harmony and six harmony: where a chart has them, ask next how its five elements get on. Misfortune may give rise to blessing, and blessing to misfortune.

相冲相破，三合六合，命中有之，即求五行相得何如。或祸中生福，福中生祸

San Ming Tong Hui, volume 3: On the symbolic stars as a whole (总论诸神煞) · source text

Birth years, and 2027

• Goat: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015. In 2027, the Year of the Fire Goat (Ding Wei, 丁未), the Goat is the year’s own sign (Zhi Tai Sui, 值太岁).
• Monkey: 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016. In 2027, the Year of the Fire Goat (Ding Wei, 丁未), the Monkey has no clash with the year.

A sign’s year is usually counted from Chinese New Year, between late January and mid-February; BaZi counts it from the Start of Spring, about 4 February. Born in January or early February? You may be the sign before: the sign pages check your date.