Born on a 戊子 day

What kind of person you are

A mountain

You are steady and hard to alarm, and people lean on you without asking whether you can take it. The classical picture for you is a mountain, which other things are measured against. The cost is that moving, changing and starting are hard for you, even though enduring is easy.

Day animal

The Rat

• Notices earlyPicks up the mood and the way out before anyone speaks
• Makes doGets things working on far less than others need
• The catchWorks things out alone and never shows how, so people hesitate to trust it

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 earn money steadily, by turning up and doing the work, and you like fair pay for fair work. The amounts are smaller than Big money, and little of it goes missing. The cost is that it grows slowly. The animal of your birth day brings you Steady pay.

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 Ox

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

Clashes head-on

The Horse

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

Team of three

The MonkeyThe Dragon

These three get the most done together. With the Monkey and the Dragon, the Rat makes a team of three that pulls toward Water.