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Iris Calder
14 Mar 1987 · 07:22 · London, United Kingdom · Pisces Sun, Virgo Moon, Aries rising
The Four Pillars — Saju (사주) in Korea, Shichū Suimei in Japan. Not planetary at all: a sexagenary calendar whose only astronomy is the Sun crossing each fifteenth degree.
your sign
Rabbit
Fire yin · year
how the world sees you
inner animal
Rabbit
Water yin · month
how you love and work
true animal
Dog
Water yang · day
who you are to yourself
secret animal
Dragon
Wood yang · hour
what you keep back
The year's animal is the one everyone knows; the tradition reads three more — the inner animal of the month, the true animal of the day, and the secret animal of the hour.
Symbolic stars · 神煞
| Star | Found by | Falls on | In your chart | Read as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 桃花 Peach Blossom | year and day branch | 子 卯 | year, month pillars | charm and attraction; romance, and the trouble it brings |
| 驛馬 Travelling Horse | year and day branch | 巳 申 | — | movement: travel, relocation, a life on the road |
| 華蓋 Canopy | year and day branch | 未 戌 | day pillar | the scholar's and the monk's star: art, solitude, the spiritual |
| 將星 General | year and day branch | 卯 午 | year, month pillars | command and leadership; the one others follow |
| 天乙貴人 Nobleman | day stem | 巳 卯 | year, month pillars | help from above: patrons, rescue in trouble |
| 文昌 Academic star | day stem | 寅 | — | learning, examinations, the written word |
| 羊刃 Yang Blade | day stem | 子 | — | sharpness and force; injury, surgery, the edge |
| 紅鸞 Red Phoenix | year branch | 子 | — | marriage and happy occasions |
| 天喜 Heavenly Joy | year branch | 午 | — | celebration, births, good news |
Each star is a branch named by the year or day pillar; it is present when one of your four branches stands there. The dimmed rows are the ones that do not.
空亡 Void: the day pillar 壬戌 falls in 甲寅旬, whose void branches are 子丑 — none of your other branches stands there.
Your Rabbit and the other animals
| 子 Rat | no fixed pair | neither bound nor at odds |
| 丑 Ox | no fixed pair | neither bound nor at odds |
| 寅 Tiger | no fixed pair | neither bound nor at odds |
| 卯 Rabbit | your own sign | alike, and apt to repeat each other |
| 辰 Dragon | harm | a quiet undermining between the two |
| 巳 Snake | no fixed pair | neither bound nor at odds |
| 午 Horse | no fixed pair | neither bound nor at odds |
| 未 Goat | three harmony | the natural allies: the same element made together |
| 申 Monkey | no fixed pair | neither bound nor at odds |
| 酉 Rooster | clash | the two pull apart: movement, separation, a matter forced open |
| 戌 Dog | combination | the two bind: alliance, attachment, a matter held together |
| 亥 Pig | three harmony | the natural allies: the same element made together |
The year branches' fixed pairs: the six combinations and three-harmony triads are the allies, the clash and the harm the strains. The same table the compare pages use.