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The Goat
An eye for what is quietly wrong
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 read a room before anyone in it has spoken. Nobody asked us to and we do it anyway.
The Goat in Korean Saju
You notice what is off: the wrong note, the unhappy person, the detail nobody else saw. You are mild, stubborn when it matters, and tougher than people think. The cost is that you take on other people’s moods as if they were your own.
Basic facts about this animal
- Its hours of the day
- 1pm – 3pm
- Its month
- July 7 – August 7
- late summer
- Element
- Yin Earth
- Yang is the outward, active form; Yin is the inward, quiet form
- Place in the order
- 8th of twelve
If this is your day animal
The Goat is the animal of sensitivity and skill: it notices what others miss.
What this animal is like in a chart
A Goat day is someone who makes a group feel looked after. The Goat rules late summer, when the heat turns into harvest. People with this day find resources where others see nothing. It is a storehouse animal for Wood, keeping spring’s growth in reserve long after spring is over.
The cost is soaking up other people’s moods. Inside its Earth the Goat holds Fire and Wood, so it is warmer and remembers more than its mild manner shows. A Goat day takes in the feelings of everyone around it, and afterwards cannot always tell which ones were its own. Time alone after a crowded day helps sort them out.
How it gets on with the other animals
Pulls together — The Horse
Easy to fall into, hard to leave. The Goat and the Horse are one of the six pairs that pull together, the closest link two animals can have.
Clashes head-on — The Ox
A pairing that does not let either person stay the same. The Ox sits directly opposite the Goat on the circle of twelve: a head-on clash. That makes it a restless match, not a bad one.
Team of three — The Pig & The Rabbit
These three get the most done together. With the Pig and the Rabbit, the Goat makes a team of three that pulls toward Wood.
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