Tiger and Wealth

The folk reading associates the tiger with wealth gained through decisive action rather than through accumulation. Wealth attributions follow the animal's associated temperament and are general rather than predictive.

It is one factor among several in the traditional system. The folk reading associates the tiger with wealth gained through decisive action rather than through accumulation. 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 contrasts with the ox's: one accumulates, the other takes. The tradition keeps both as temperament types.

The association is with the tiger's emblematic directness applied to resources. It is grouped under Wood (木) in the five-element system.