戌
The Dog
Loyalty with no conditions
This page is about a birth-day animal, not a birth-year animal. Everyone has a day animal, from the day they were born, and it is often not the year animal they know.
You and I stay. That is the whole of it — we stay, and it costs more than people think.
The Dog in Korean Saju
Your loyalty has no conditions, which is rarer than it sounds and sometimes costly. You have a strong sense of fairness, and you will wear yourself out defending it. The cost is that you stay in a role long after it has stopped deserving you.
Basic facts about this animal
- Its hours of the day
- 7pm – 9pm
- Its month
- October 8 – November 7
- late autumn
- Element
- Yang Earth
- Yang is the outward, active form; Yin is the inward, quiet form
- Place in the order
- 11th of twelve
If this is your day animal
The Dog is the animal of loyalty and principle: it protects what it has taken on.
What this animal is like in a chart
A Dog day is someone whose loyalty is a working principle, not just a feeling. The Dog rules late autumn, when the year is closing. It has a sense of fairness that it will spend on other people’s behalf. It suits institutions, causes and long friendships, and it is a storehouse animal that keeps Fire in reserve for the winter.
The cost is staying too long. A Dog day runs warmer than it looks, and the Metal it carries inside gives that warmth an edge of judgement. A Dog day stays past the point where leaving would have been easy, and past the point where the other side deserves it. Knowing when a job or a loyalty has ended is this animal’s hardest lesson.
How it gets on with the other animals
Pulls together — The Rabbit
Easy to fall into, hard to leave. The Dog and the Rabbit are one of the six pairs that pull together, the closest link two animals can have.
Clashes head-on — The Dragon
A pairing that does not let either person stay the same. The Dragon sits directly opposite the Dog on the circle of twelve: a head-on clash. That makes it a restless match, not a bad one.
Team of three — The Tiger & The Horse
These three get the most done together. With the Tiger and the Horse, the Dog makes a team of three that pulls toward Fire.
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