Born on a 戊午 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 Horse

• Moves to thinkGets stuck sitting still; the answer comes on the way somewhere
• Pulls people inWarm and direct, and hard not to notice
• The catchLeaves a good thing because it stopped being new, not because it went bad

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 子 and 丑 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 Rat
• The Ox

How it gets on with the other animals

Pulls together

The Goat

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

Clashes head-on

The Rat

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

Team of three

The TigerThe Dog

These three get the most done together. With the Tiger and the Dog, the Horse makes a team of three that pulls toward Fire.