Born on a 己巳 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 Snake

• Gets there firstHas the answer before anyone finishes explaining
• Says littleSpeaks rarely and precisely, and cannot be hurried
• The catchKeeping quiet becomes a habit, until nobody asks any more

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 get direct help from people above you: teachers, parents, school, someone who backs you while you take a risk. This support is steady. The cost is that you may end up living by the expectations of whoever supports you. The animal of your birth day brings you Mentors and backing.

Partner and self: how much strength you bring

At full strength

This is where you are strongest: when you push, things move. The cost is that you find it hard to believe others might be right when they disagree. Mistakes here come from having too much, not too little.

What is hard to keep hold of

Any part of your life that sits on 戌 and 亥 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 Dog
• The Pig

How it gets on with the other animals

Pulls together

The Monkey

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

Clashes head-on

The Pig

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

Team of three

The RoosterThe Ox

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