The eleventh sign of the Eastern zodiac is the character 
and is pronounced “Xu.” The symbolic animal of this eleventh earthly stem is the dog and is represented by the character 
. It is a yang symbol of the third trine, and its fixed element is metal. Its assigned realm on the compass encompasses the portion that lies between the 300th and the 330th degrees. It is the lord of the ninth lunar month, which lasts from October 8 to November 6. The hours for the dog are from seven to nine in the evening.
The eleventh sign of the Western zodiac is the symbol 
that is commonly known as Aquarius. It is generally considered to be symbolic of an adolescent male holding a vessel of water. Like its Eastern counterpart, this symbol is a positive yang symbol of the active diurnal masculine. Its elemental designation is air and its quality is fixed. It possesses the same coordinates of the heavenly ecliptic as does the Eastern sign of the dog, however, its yearly domain of influence is from January 20 to February 18 in the tropical system and from February 15 to March 14 in the sidereal system.
