Born on a 甲申 day

What kind of person you are

A standing tree

You choose one direction and keep to it, so other people can plan around you. The classical picture for you is a standing tree, which grows straight up and does not go around things. The cost is that you are slow to change course, and you resist being pushed where you did not choose to go.

Day animal

The Monkey

• Finds a wayBlocked one way, it tries another: around, not through
• Learns fastPicks anything up and puts it to use
• The catchGets bored before finishing and moves on to the next thing

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.

What the two characters do to each other

You face pressure you did not ask for: hard deadlines, difficult people, demands you cannot put off. If you have enough strength, it makes you better at what you do. If you do not, it wears you down. The animal of your birth day brings you Pressure.

Partner and self: how much strength you bring

Starting from nothing

Here you inherited nothing, so you owe nothing. The cost is that there is nothing to fall back on: whatever you have here, you made yourself.

What is hard to keep hold of

Any part of your life that sits on 午 and 未 is hard for you to keep hold of. These two of the twelve animals count as empty for you, and the day you were born decides which two.

• The Horse
• The Goat

How it gets on with the other animals

Pulls together

The Snake

Easy to fall into, hard to leave. The Monkey and the Snake are one of the six pairs that pull together, the closest link two animals can have.

Clashes head-on

The Tiger

A pairing that does not let either person stay the same. The Tiger sits directly opposite the Monkey on the circle of twelve: a head-on clash. That makes it a restless match, not a bad one.

Team of three

The RatThe Dragon

These three get the most done together. With the Rat and the Dragon, the Monkey makes a team of three that pulls toward Water.