The Four Pillars

亥︎Hài — the Pig

Earthly Branch · Pig · Water

The twelfth and last Earthly Branch — the Pig, early winter's rest, deep Water.

Hài reads as generous, good-natured ease: sincere, tolerant, and glad to share what it has. Its openness draws people in, and its lesson is to keep a little for itself and to see clearly where that generosity is spent.