The Tiger year (Wood 木, yang) meets a Leo sun (Fire, Fixed).
Wood · yangFire · Fixed寅 yín
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
3 of 12
Branch
寅 (yín)
Year element
Wood 木 · yang
Sun sign
Leo
Sign element
Fire
Modality
Fixed
Ruling planet
Sun
Hours ruled
03:00–04:59
Season · direction
Spring · East-Northeast
These values are computed from the Earthly Branch and tropical sign, not looked up in a table. The year element follows the sexagenary cycle; the sign facts follow the tropical zodiac.
Drop the Tiger's swagger into the sign the Sun already rules, and you get someone who honestly cannot picture the room without themselves at the middle of it. Wood feeds the fixed Fire of Leo, so even though the two elements aren't a formal match, the Wood Tiger's growing, expansive nature pours straight into Leo's appetite for the spotlight and keeps it lit for the long haul. This person leads with warmth and theatrical generosity, the type who grabs the whole tab and means it. Fixed modality lends the restless Tiger a spine of loyalty it doesn't always carry elsewhere; once the Leo Tiger commits to a person or a cause, they stay, loudly. In love they're devoted, proud, and starved for visible admiration. At work they inspire easily and delegate badly, sure the standard slips the moment they look away. The blind spot is the ego's appetite: criticism reads as betrayal, and their courage curdles into stubborn defensiveness the instant their authority gets questioned. Flatter the cub and it purrs; corner it and it forgets every reasonable thing it knew.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Tiger year walks toward the risk the rest of the room is backing away from, filtered through a Leo sun that brings warm, generous pride. As a fixed sign, the Leo side holds things. It commits hard and changes direction reluctantly, which is both its anchor and its trap. The blend reads as a study in two minds, the kind of person who leads from the front and burns bright on a cause while wanting, underneath, what every Leo wants: to be seen and appreciated.
In love
In love, the Tiger loves at full intensity and expects the same in return, while the Leo side gives loyalty and a sense of occasion. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is to be seen and appreciated, and they give devotion the Tiger's way. The old spring-season, East-Northeast-facing symbolism of the 寅 branch points at the same rhythm of approach and retreat that a good partner learns to read.
Career
At work, the Tiger leads from the front and burns bright on a cause. The Leo layer adds loyalty and a sense of occasion, and the fixed cast means this person holds things. Sun-ruled, the Leo Tiger is at its strongest given a clear aim and the room to pursue it its own way.
The shadow side
The shadow side is specific. The Tiger in this person charges first and reckons with the consequences later; the Leo in them can over-rely on warm, generous pride. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, charges first and reckons with the consequences later reinforcing a Leo that digs in. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Leo Tiger combines the Tiger year (Wood, yang) with a Leo sun (Fire, Fixed, ruled by Sun). The Leo Tiger sets Tiger's combustible courage against Leo's warm, generous pride. The two systems describe different textures here (the upward, branching push of Wood underneath a fiery, action-first temperament), and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents negotiate.
Do the Eastern and Western sides of a Leo Tiger agree?
Not directly. The Wood of the Tiger year and the Fire of the Leo sun describe different temperaments, and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents take turns.
Who is the Tiger most compatible with?
In the branch relations, the Tiger's natural ally (六合) is the Pig, its trine partners (三合) are the Horse and Dog, and its classic clash (六沖) is the Monkey.
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