Jeon Somi's SajuBorn Glass, Armored in IronK-POP · 2001-03-09

Three jewels stand side by side with their edges touching, and the field around them is parched while the fire rises like heat haze. A jewel honed cold and keen waits desperately for a great fire to heat and shape its edge, so the grain of a life that shone dazzling outside while carrying an unquenchable thirst within is plain to see.

Three Yin Metals rose side by side in your heavens, which is the spirit of a drawn blade that will not borrow another hand but must hone its own light or find no peace. To this your spring wood and dry earth entwine into a Dynamic Wealth structure, so when a game opens you throw yourself in without hesitation and take the floor with a quick, calculating eye. Outwardly you carry the bearing of a leader who lights up a room and steers it, yet the Needle Star set in your day branch means a single careless word can cut the soft flesh beneath, and you nurse that ache where no one sees.

This is why the easy weeper and the one who never kneels live in the same body. Your tears break out because no water shows in your chart, so nothing buffers the tender feeling, and the grit that lifts you again is the pride of three metal blades that would sooner snap than bend. When that keen measure turns inward you become endlessly fragile, and when you meet the world it turns into a nerve harder than anyone else carries.

Dry earth and heat lie waiting in your branches as well, so the warmth in your chest does not settle easily. Your skin is tender and clear as glass while the armor you show the world is solid iron, and one can only guess how wearing the years have been with that whip in your own hand. Against the bright energy you send out, you are apt to be wrung by endless tension alone in a room, for behind what people call steel there is always a tear pooled by someone who wore herself down to hold on.

Your workplace is not a seat bound by fixed rules but a stage of instinct where you read the flow and catch every eye at once. The Dynamic Wealth structure gives you rare command of space and an immediate feel for how a crowd responds, so your jewel of a talent only shines when you take a hand in the planning and the staging. Your eye for fine grain is sharp enough that when you shape a song or dress an image you name the small difference others cannot see.

Standing at the top of the world so young and then being left alone when the group scattered came of spring wood and dry earth tangling in your branches until the ground shook. The wealth energy that opens a wide game runs strong, yet no channel of expression shows to receive it and carry it away, so even under the lights at the center of a stage a fear coiled in one corner of your heart that it could all vanish. Yet in that time alone you learned the hard way to write your own songs and hone your own color without leaning on anyone, so the lack itself put a handle in your grip.

The trap at each rise is the point where you drive yourself toward perfection until body and mind overload. Force yourself into a fixed frame and the keen jewel goes dull and loses its life, so you must hold ground where you lead the game and speak freely. At twenty-nine the next cycle opens far wider, so do not be hasty now, and put your weight into making your own grain solid while you ready a wider game.

Your wealth is not the grain of wages saved coin by coin but the Dynamic Wealth tide that rides a current, arrives large and turns over freely. Your hand is open and you like people, so you enjoy giving to those around you, and once you judge a thing worthwhile you widen the game without hesitation. Only, three metals stand together in your heavens, so when money comes there are many shares to divide with others and it scatters easily to places you did not intend.

This chart holds its wealth with ample strength, so the vessel to earn greatly and turn it with your own hand is clear, yet grip too hard and it runs out like sand. Dry earth and wood are tangled in your branches especially, so leaks open where feeling sweeps you or where you spend to save face. To make what you earn truly yours, bind it inside a safe fence with cold paperwork rather than trusting your instinct alone to turn it.

This year and next the energy backs you, so widen your own game rather than shrink, and refuse only to move large sums because someone made them sound good. Your talent is the surest gold mine you own, so it serves you far better to raise the worth of the one thing only you can make and guard the rights to it than to chase outside returns. Starting this month, open a separate safe account and move a fixed share of income into it by rule, where your own mood cannot reach.

For you a bond must be a rock of a person who notices the childlike fear behind your bright surface and holds it quietly. The energy that marks a partner sits hidden in your chart and your day branch carries dry earth where a tired heart wants to lie down, so though you look forward and sure, deep down you long for unconditional backing and rest. You lean far more toward a plain and unshaken person who takes in your unease than toward anyone with showy charm or a quick tongue.

Yet the seat of your partner holds parched heat, so the closer you grow the easier a quarrel breaks out when the other begins to teach or to control. You in turn cannot lay your heart out gently and instead push people away with a keen word, cutting yourself with the same Needle Star blade. Unless you catch that inner tug of war, drawing back when someone comes near and dreading abandonment when they go, a good bond will not stay beside you.

Marriage or a deep binding is likely to loosen into calm around thirty-three, once the cold water of your early thirties has passed and warm Fire comes in again. Whether or not someone stands beside you now, first practise drawing a healthy line so that love never takes your own space from you. Starting today, when hurt or unease rises, make it a rule not to fire back a sharp word at once but to let a whole night pass and then speak it in a settled voice.

Reading the six characters you show, no water appears to cool the jewel and only dry heat fills the chart, so guard first against your fluids drying and heat rising upward. Where water is empty among the five elements, the kidneys and bladder and the reproductive line tire before anyone else, and bones and joints lose their give. Three keen metals stand as well, so your breathing passages and skin are weak to dryness, and you catch a chill or suffer allergies each time the season turns.

When the heat knotted in your chest is not aired out and you swallow it instead, it turns easily into sleeplessness, headaches, or a pounding you cannot explain. You laugh it off brightly on the surface while your body takes that tension whole and burns dry with it, and this is not a matter of the mind but a signal the parched energy has driven through your whole body. Never wave off the heaviness that follows a hard schedule or an ache in the joints.

So keep water near you, eat in a way that brings your heat down, and put real rest at the head of your day. Rather than exercise that pours sweat, moving quietly in water or walking a cool forest path will fill what is dry in you. Only remember this is read from the tilt of the chart you were born with, so for the actual state of your body and any warning sign you must go to a doctor and have it looked at plainly and carefully.

This Fire Horse year has heaven and earth alike burning in a fierce blaze, so the fire that can heat and shape three stubborn blades has come in at last and on time. The Fire held in your major cycle and the fire of the year lean the same way, an opening that comes once in several years, so this is a time to open a game rather than shrink. Only, the fire in heaven moves to bind with your three blades, so many things will try to hold you at once, and you should make this a year of choosing the work that carries your name and putting your weight there rather than grasping at everything.

Today, a Yin Fire Rooster day, the cold wind of the Avoid Element and the firmness of the Support Element stand evenly matched, so good and ill run mixed through it. Drive gathers on the surface and the demands around you sharpen until your mind races, yet the energy lifting your root holds in the branches, so nothing is lacking for keeping the day steady. Do not let the pressure push you into new promises or large decisions, and let the day pass quietly while you finish what is already familiar.

Now that the heat of the first half has passed and autumn is coming on, you need the calm not to rise and fall with every outward verdict or result. What weighs on you now is not a jewel melting down but the rite of passage that shakes off the froth and hones you into something harder. Do not try to prove yourself to anyone else, and spend today wholly on catching your own breath.

Your life curve runs through a harsh proving ground in early years and gives its own light more fully as you move toward middle age. The Water Dragon cycle that ran from nine to eighteen was a hard season of cold rain wetting the ember that would hone you, so even as you drew every eye and took in the cheering of a crowd so young, you paid a harsh price for it. The Water Snake cycle you stand in now, from nineteen to twenty-eight, has cold water veiling the fire on its face while the ember that hones you stays alive beneath, a mixed stretch where you wrestle with the loneliness of standing alone and still make your own ground firm.

The Wood Horse cycle coming from twenty-nine to thirty-eight is ten years that open wide, with spring Wood feeding the flame and a noon fire heating your jewel properly, so make ready for it. Only, the three years at its threshold, from 2031 when you turn thirty to 2033 when you turn thirty-two, are a stretch where cold Water comes in wave after wave and falls on the fire that was honing you, and reaching or wanting too much will call trouble down. Before that, 2029 at twenty-eight also asks you to hold your breath as Metal piles on, so in those seasons put your mark on keeping rather than on gaining.

But in 2034, when you turn thirty-three and that water has cleared, and in 2035, spring Wood feeds the flame high, and that is when the blade you have carried is heated properly and gives its light. Past forty-six the seasoned energies arriving in your cycles take over from what your hour would have held, so you will set deep roots as an artist and a leader all your own, the torment of your young years laid down. The pain of youth is only the tempering that hones you into a dazzling blade, so do not let the bends in front of you wound you easily.

Your chart is by nature cold metal, hushed and turning inward, while the temperament you recognise in yourself is a bold commander who calls out to the world and builds the game. This is not because you were born outward facing but because at nineteen, entering the Water Snake cycle, you put on steel armor to survive the pressure around you. Thrown young into a jungle of grown people, you had to live through it, so you learned by instinct to hide the tender part and take hold of every situation.

What lives most keenly in the chart is the instinct that catches real chances and the mind that frames a plan, and locked to your forward drive it throws off a powerful push. Yet deep down you still long for warm understanding and fine intuition while hiding behind logic and discipline so as not to look weak, and the contradiction grows from there. You play the strong captain who settles everything, and inside the loneliness cuts because there is no one to carry that weight with you.

As the years go on and the flow of your cycles opens toward warm Fire, you will shed that armor piece by piece and a softer, more yielding face will show. You will not need to raise your voice to lead, because the artistic insight and depth that come from your presence alone will bow heads on their own. When you set down the compulsion to be strong to survive, the jewel in you passes beyond a keen blade and becomes a work of art that glows quietly.

I think of a seamstress standing alone on a New York pier beyond the steamships, drawing her thin coat close against the rough tide of strangers and biting her lip. In an older age, a nature like yours that carries three blades and means to command the spring field would have been broken inside a household and left to cry the night through, or told it was too fierce until it hid its own gift. But this world sets a woman who builds her own game and swings her own blade at the highest place on the stage and claps for her, so the age has met you and buys your keenness at last as something precious.

First, this year and next the energy backs you, so hold your own ground and widen the game that carries your name, but through the three hard years from 2031 to 2033, ages thirty to thirty-two, start no new venture or reckless expansion. This is a time to put your weight on the stride of solo work, showing music and craft openly on a stage under your own name, rather than being swept into a loud crowd.

Second, keep near you people who are rich in expression, passionate and alive in the present moment, rather than the silent sort who sink into thought and show nothing.

Third, in the bedroom or workspace where you stay, keep objects of red and orange and open a window to the south or set a warm lamp, bringing the energy of stepping forward and being seen close to you.

Fourth, until the spring of 2030, when you turn twenty-nine, cut off hard the habit of comparing yourself to others and growing impatient, and learn to wait for your own season to fill.

Hold these four and in a few weeks you will wake one morning to find the heat that always pounded in your chest has settled and your head is clear as spring water. A talisman is nothing other than a single warm ember set beside a stubborn jewel, an anchor for the heart that brings out your own clear light.

Whenever the weight in your heart grows heavy or you wish to set the last piece in place, come again and bring the hidden hour of your birth with you.

Though the wind and rain beat on you, you are a blade that will not break in the end, so shake off the unease in your chest and walk your road with your head up.