Clashing Tai Sui: The Opposite Branch, a Year of Movement

Clashing Tai Sui means your sign and Tai Sui sit directly opposite each other on the circle of twelve branches, six places apart. A clash is the most direct of the relations, and the one most often called "unlucky." But the core meaning of a clash is movement: moving house, changing surroundings, a change of state. It is not destruction.

Two kinds of clash

In Chen-Xu and Chou-Wei both sides have Earth as their main qi, so the Earth itself is not damaged; what really collides are the hidden stems, such as the Gui Water and Xin Metal inside Chou against the Ding Fire and Yi Wood inside Wei. That is why this kind of clash is often read as "the same position from the outside, with everything inside replaced": old matters, old things and old relationships get brought out and dealt with.

How a clash year tends to feel

• Moving house, changing office or city, long stretches of travel.
• Leaving a job, a transfer, a reorganization, a partnership being reshuffled.
• A relationship changing state: moving in together, marrying and separating all count as movement.

How to use a clash year

A clash year suits the move that was due anyway; for someone who has been stuck for years, its push is rare and welcome. What is best avoided is moving on two big things at once, because the forces compete. If you are in the middle of steady building, keep the change to one thing and leave the rest as it is.

Under each of the twelve Tai Sui branches, which sign is it?

Clashing Tai Sui: the signs for 2026 to 2037

Calculated by our engine from the table of branch relations, with the year changing at Li Chun. In our sample, in any given year about 8.7% of people have a sign in this column.

Reading it in BaZi

Your zodiac sign is only the year branch. If the same relation falls on your month branch, what moves is work and your surroundings; on your day branch, yourself, your partner and where you live; on your hour branch, children and younger people, and long-term plans. Then look at whether the element of Tai Sui's branch is favorable or unfavorable for you: the same clash from a favorable Tai Sui is a push, and only an unfavorable one is the kind of resistance that needs more care. For the full method see annual clashes and combinations.