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The Horse
Motion as the best way to think
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 think with our legs. Neither of us has ever solved anything in a chair.
The Horse in Korean Saju
You think best while you are moving. Sitting still with a problem makes it worse; going somewhere makes it solvable. You are warm, direct and hard to keep in one place. The cost is that you may leave a good thing only because it is no longer new.
Basic facts about this animal
- Its hours of the day
- 11am – 1pm
- Its month
- June 5 – July 7
- midsummer
- Element
- Yang Fire
- Yang is the outward, active form; Yin is the inward, quiet form
- Place in the order
- 7th of twelve
If this is your day animal
The Horse is the animal of drive and independence, at full strength in the middle of the year.
What this animal is like in a chart
A Horse day is someone who thinks by moving and persuades by being seen. The Horse rules midsummer, when the sun is at its highest. It is the most public animal in the cycle. It suits performance, sales, campaigning, and any work where enthusiasm is what persuades people.
The cost comes once the peak has passed. Inside its Fire the Horse carries Earth and more Fire, so it uses energy faster than it recovers it. Stamina is not the problem; it has plenty. The problem is staying on after the most exciting part of something is over.
How it gets on with the other animals
Pulls together — The Goat
Easy to fall into, hard to leave. The Horse and the Goat are one of the six pairs that pull together, the closest link two animals can have.
Clashes head-on — The Rat
A pairing that does not let either person stay the same. The Rat sits directly opposite the Horse 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 Dog
These three get the most done together. With the Tiger and the Dog, the Horse makes a team of three that pulls toward Fire.
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