Born on a 壬申 day

What kind of person you are

The open sea

You keep most of what you think to yourself, and you are hard to stop. The classical picture for you is the open sea: wide, deep, and always moving somewhere. So you think in large terms, and you go around obstacles instead of through them. The cost is that people find you hard to read.

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 learn best outside the usual routes: teaching yourself, studying alone, following your own interest. You end up knowing things other people do not. The cost is that recognition comes slowly. The animal of your birth day brings you Unusual learning.

Partner and self: how much strength you bring

Just starting out

Here you are just starting, and you are open and willing to learn. The cost is that you have nothing to show yet, so progress here usually needs someone to back you.

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 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.