Born on a 丁亥 day

What kind of person you are

A lamp in a dark room

You give your warmth with care to a few people, not to everyone. The classical picture for you is a lamp in a dark room: small, and exactly where it is needed. So you notice details that people with a broader view miss. The cost is that you need looking after too, and you cannot keep going on nothing.

Day animal

The Pig

• Gives freelyGives without counting; people relax around it
• Lives wellEnjoys things without apologising for it
• The catchAssumes the generosity comes back, and finds out late that it does not

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 take on roles and keep to them: a job, its rules, the duties that come with it. Unlike Pressure, this is something you agreed to, and keeping it earns you respect. The cost is that you cannot simply walk away from it. The animal of your birth day brings you Job and rules.

Partner and self: how much strength you bring

Still taking shape

Here nothing has taken shape yet, and your options are wide open. The cost is impatience at not having started, which looks to others like doing nothing.

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 Tiger

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

Clashes head-on

The Snake

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

Team of three

The RabbitThe Goat

These three get the most done together. With the Rabbit and the Goat, the Pig makes a team of three that pulls toward Wood.