Born on a 癸丑 day

What kind of person you are

Rain and dew

You change things quietly, and people notice only later. The classical picture for you is rain and dew, which reach places that larger water cannot. So your influence builds up slowly rather than all at once. The cost is that your part in things is easy to overlook.

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 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

Newly appointed

Here you take on a position and make something of it, with enough strength to get things moving. The cost is that, like anyone new in a role, you find it hard to compromise.

What is hard to keep hold of

Any part of your life that sits on 寅 and 卯 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 Tiger
• The Rabbit

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.