Pig and Wealth

The folk reading associates the pig with stored plenty — the household's reserves rather than its income. Wealth attributions follow the animal's temperament and are general rather than predictive.

It is one factor among several in the traditional system. The folk reading associates the pig with stored plenty — the household's reserves rather than its income. The year animal is the coarsest of the four pillars — the month, day and hour carry equal weight, and the classical sources never read the year alone. The distinction between reserves and income is the useful one: the pig is read for what is kept, not what arrives.

The association is with the household store, which is the basis of the pig's reading. It is grouped under Water (水) in the five-element system.