Rat and Wealth

The folk reading associates the rat with careful management of resources — the animal associated with the storehouse. Wealth readings for the zodiac animals are folk attributions following from the animal's associated temperament and its traditional setting.

It is one factor among several in the traditional system. The folk reading associates the rat with careful management of resources — the animal associated with the storehouse. 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 reading is about management rather than acquisition — the attributed trait is carefulness with what is already there.

The rat's association is with the granary: where there are rats there is a store, which is the basis of the association. It is grouped under Water (水) in the five-element system.