Finds the clever way through when the straight way is blocked.
Monkey is the branch of late afternoon, when the straight road has usually run out and a way still has to be found. In a chart it reads as improvisation: you solve the problem the rules didn't plan for, and rarely the same way twice. People experience this as wit, sometimes read as slipperiness when it's really just refusing to be stuck. It shows up loudest wherever it sits in your four pillars — a year Monkey carries it into your public reputation, a day Monkey makes it your own temperament.