Pig is 亥, where winter opens — the last branch of the Korean saju year and the one that closes it. The sign gets described in English as easy-going, which is true and shallow. What Pigs actually have is an absence of the calculating layer most people run underneath a conversation: you say the real thing, you assume the other person is doing the same, and you are surprised, repeatedly, over a whole lifetime, when they were not.
At work
You are the person a team can be honest around, and that has a measurable effect — problems surface earlier near a Pig, because nobody is worried about how the admission will be used. That is a rare thing to supply and it is almost never written into a job description. The corresponding weakness is negotiation: you show your position too early and too completely, and you have probably been underpaid at least once because the honest number and the opening number are the same number to you. It is not a character flaw to name a higher figure first. It is just the format.
With people
You are generous without keeping track, which makes you very easy to be close to and easy to take from. Most Pigs can name at least one long friendship that was mostly one-directional and that they maintained anyway, out of something between loyalty and inertia. The useful discipline is not becoming guarded — that would cost you the thing that makes the sign work. It is noticing the imbalance out loud, once, and seeing what the other person does with it.
Pig compatibility
Rabbit and Goat share your wood triad, and the three of you can be in a room together without anyone needing to win anything, which is rarer than it sounds. Tiger is the six-harmony pair and the more energising one: Tiger will drag you into things you would not have chosen and would not have wanted to miss, and you supply the ground that keeps Tiger from flying apart.
Snake sits opposite you and withholds by default where you disclose by default; you will read the reserve as something being hidden and Snake will read your openness as a lack of judgement, and both readings have some truth in them. Monkey is the harm relation and the more painful one — you extend full trust immediately, Monkey handles it lightly rather than badly, and the difference between careless and unkind is not something you can feel from inside it.
Where the strength turns over
The openness flips when it becomes an inability to hold anything back at all. You give the full account to someone who asked out of politeness, you notice the room adjust, and afterwards you decide the problem is you rather than the audience. It usually was the audience.
How Korean saju reads this branch
Pig is 亥 — an opening branch, one of the four that begin a season holding more than one force. Inside 亥 sit Earth, Wood and Water: ground, the growth that is coming, and the deep water that will feed it. Korean saju treats 亥 as the branch with the most underneath it relative to what shows on the surface, which is close to the opposite of the sign's easy-going reputation in English write-ups. The Water is depth rather than emotion, and it is why Pig people so often turn out to have thought about something far more carefully than their willingness to say it plainly suggested. Being the last branch also matters here — 亥 closes the year, and endings are a thing this sign handles better than most.
Are you actually this sign?
Worth checking, especially for this sign. Korean saju cuts the year at ipchun (立春), around February 4, not at Lunar New Year — and since Pig is the branch immediately before Rat, a lot of people born in January of a Rat year turn out to be Pigs in this system, having been told otherwise their whole lives. If your birthday is in January or the first days of February, run the date again before you settle on an animal.
Before you give the full answer, ask one question first. Not to test anyone. Just to find out whether the question was real.