Thai naga couple reading

In these old Thai and Lanna tables, each year animal places a person on the body of a naga (the serpent of Thai legend): its head, middle or tail, on a silver or gold side. The two partners are counted in opposite directions, traditionally the man from the head and the woman from the tail. Here you simply choose which partner is counted which way.

Translated from three Thai pages and adapted: remarks about infidelity, widowhood and violence were softened, and the man/woman roles became a free choice of counting direction.