Born on a 己丑 day

What kind of person you are

A cultivated field

You take in what other people need and give back more than you were given. The classical picture for you is a cultivated field, which takes in seed and returns a crop. The cost is that you shape yourself around whoever you support, and little of your own gets started.

Day animal

The Ox

• FinishesStill going long after everyone else has stopped
• Gets strongerIs worth more in year ten than in year one
• The catchKeeps doing a job well past the point of handing it over

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 have people at your level on your side: friends, brothers and sisters, colleagues. They share your element, so they add to your strength. The cost is that whatever you gain, you share with them. The animal of your birth day brings you Allies.

Partner and self: how much strength you bring

Gathering and keeping

Here you collect and keep things, knowledge and people. The cost is that you find it hard to let go at the right time, and storing is not the same as using.

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 Rat

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

Clashes head-on

The Goat

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

Team of three

The SnakeThe Rooster

These three get the most done together. With the Snake and the Rooster, the Ox makes a team of three that pulls toward Metal.