Born on a 辛丑 day

What kind of person you are

Finished jewellery

Your standards are high and you do not hide it, in your work or in the people you choose. The classical picture for you is finished jewellery: refined, particular and aware of its own worth. The cost is that the precision that makes your judgement useful also makes it hurt when you say it out loud.

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 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

Building up quietly

Here you build up quietly, and none of it is wasted. The cost is that for a while, people may value you at less than you are worth.

What is hard to keep hold of

Any part of your life that sits on 辰 and 巳 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 Dragon
• The Snake

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.