Kazuha's SajuA Great Tree That Bore the Frost Wind Meets a Deep River and Becomes a Forest (Wood Tiger)K-POP · 2003-08-09

용신: 水

In a cleft of a rocky mountain where the autumn frost has settled keen and blue, there stands one great tree that has pushed its trunk straight up. The Metal energy of the season you were born in rings you round on every side like blades, and hard rock butts against the base of the trunk, yet yours is a chart that holds a green energy at its own feet and does not stop growing straight toward the sky. On the outside you seem only to sway, smiling clearly even in the chill wind, yet within, it is the shape of one who holds in her own hand the blade that pares away her own bark and hones herself at every moment. That feeling of yours, that to stay still is like committing a wrong against yourself, comes not from any laziness in you but from the keen-edged Metal energy that fills every side and pushes at your back without cease.

In a corner of the marketplace of Dadu, in the days of Kublai Khan of the Yuan, there was a girl who through bone-paring training had risen to the place of foremost dancer of the imperial music bureau. That child too, like a great tree on an autumn rock mountain, honed her body under a keen-edged discipline and won a purity of line in her dancing that others could not so much as imitate. Yet because her own yardstick was sharper than a blade, if a single small beat went astray she would shed tears alone under the moon and wet her straw sandals the whole night through. She drove her body on and in the end left behind the finest dancing of her age, yet she never learned how to let herself go, and so, I am told, she lived always with frost held in her heart.

Wood Tiger — A Great Tree That Bore the Frost Wind Meets a Deep River and Becomes a Forest

You are a great tree of Yang Wood, born under the energy of the Monkey month of autumn, yet you did not gain the season, and with a keen-edged rocky mountain and an iron blade, which is to say Fierce Authority, set side by side in your month pillar, your inborn temperament is laid within the frame of a weak chart. Yet you have put down your own firm root, Tiger wood, in your day branch and hold the strength of Prime Fortune whole, so though the outside looks supple and still, within you are filled with a fearsome core that no ordinary storm will break. The Yang Wood of your Day Master and the Yang Metal of your month stem stand face to face and raise the stem clash of Yang Wood and Yang Metal, and down below Tiger wood and Monkey metal strike each other in the Tiger-Monkey clash and the Tiger-Monkey punishment, so within you a tension is always drawn taut, one that would pare you down to fit an ever finer measure. The reason you make a whip for yourself and strike your own back, though no one else is whipping you, is precisely the standard of this Fierce Authority Structure, which comes close to fastidiousness.

On top of that, the White Tiger, the Disgrace Star and the Needle Star overlap in your day branch, so even a fine flaw that others' eyes cannot see sticks in your own eye like a speck of grit and looms large. Behind a tender heart and an innocent face hides the temper of a born contender who never backs away from the fight with herself, so it is not in seeking to beat others, but when you have failed to beat the self of yesterday, that the tears break out first. The strength of your character is a fearsome absorption and honesty that push through to the end whatever you have once set your heart on, while its weakness lies in giving yourself no room to breathe, driving yourself to the limit and draining the heart dry. The manner you take in yourself for being cool does not come from feelings run dry, but from a restraint that holds down the violent collision whirling inside so that it does not leak out.

The strict discipline of Fierce Authority and the bodily drive of Tiger wood, your Companion, collide head-on and throw off energy, so yours is a chart that stands out uncommonly in fields that demand extreme command of the body or a strict form. The strength of the Fierce Authority Structure lies in this, that when a crisis strikes or extreme pressure is laid on, the eyes grow clearer and the decision quicker. The way of building a frame for yourself and seeking perfection within it comes naturally to you, so you are a vessel who takes in the strict discipline of an organization as though it were your own body, and yet whom a stage suits in the end where you stand alone and hang out your own name. Rather than a life of compromise and compliance like that of an ordinary office worker, your calling lies nearer to the professional performing arts or the art of the stage, where you are judged by skill alone and hone your body and craft to the limit, or to a specialist's profession that asks a high degree of concentration.

Within the six characters confirmed in your chart, Fire, your Output stars, does not show on the surface, yet embers lie secretly hidden inside the Tiger wood of your day branch and the Goat earth of your year branch. This hidden energy, passing through the tempering of Fierce Authority, is changed into a refined power of expression and a delicate sense, and so pours outward. From here on the horizon of your work will widen beyond the stage performance of dance and song, to acting or action that uses the lines and breath of the whole body with precision, and even to the place of one who teaches and designs the movement of the body. You must take in hand the learning and the documents of Water, your Resource stars, which gently loosens the Metal energy, so writing, weaving lyrics and setting thoughts of your own upon the stage will likewise become a great weapon.

In your chart wealth has taken its seat as Goat earth, Steady Wealth, in your year branch, yet it is earth that gives birth to the strong Metal energy of your month branch, so if you try to grasp it carelessly it is apt to come back as a weight pressing on your shoulders. With your Day Master in a weak state, the power to carry the Wealth stars stays at about the middle, so if you try to roll large money about by speculation or a single stroke of luck, the tower you built with such care is the thing that will shake. Happily, Yin Water, the Nurturer, holds firm in your year stem, and the Fortune Noble and Prime Fortune are seated together in your day branch, so it is a structure in which clean wealth, coming in on the ground of the sweat of your own body, of rightful contracts, of credentials and honor, does not leak away but piles up layer by layer.

The Robbery Star sits in your month branch and the Tiger-Monkey clash hangs on your day branch, so you must guard without fail against trusting people too far and neglecting the documents, or being drawn into another's troubles and lending a large sum. Rather than the greed to swell your money greatly, it suits the grain of your chart to tie it up in assets of public standing, entrust it to a specialist's hands, and gather a steady yield. The time when your wealth luck gathers strength in earnest and you govern with ease what you hold will come from the Water Pig luck cycle of your thirties onward, when the energy of Water rises to the full, so for now give your strength to raising your skill and your name and making the vessel itself firm.

One thing to do from this month is to make a simple record book in which your savings and spending can be seen at a glance, just as you seek out and note down good places to eat on your days off, and to look it over on a fixed day each week.

For you the characters that signify a mate are the Yang Metal and Monkey metal, Fierce Authority, that fill your month pillar, so the one who catches your eye is most often a person of clear convictions in a chosen field, upright without a gap, and resolute. Yet Tiger wood, your Companion, is set in your day branch, the spouse palace, and strikes hard against the Monkey metal of your month branch in the Tiger-Monkey clash, so the closer you grow, the more a war of nerves may break out over not trespassing on each other's separate ground. The White Tiger and the Lonely Swan dwell together in your day branch, so in one corner of your heart a lofty apartness is deeply steeped, a wish to lean on no one and stand alone.

Even when fondness comes, you fear by instinct that the frame of your work and your daily life may be shaken, and if your match meddles too far or tries to control you, you are all too likely to bolt the door of your heart at once. So only with a person who deeply respects each other's work and time, and who, while keeping a certain distance of body and of feeling, still becomes a dependable prop, can it carry on into a lasting bond. The time when your luck in love moves plainly and the seat of relationship grows easy is a year in which the energy of Water comes in and gently washes away the sharpness of Metal, so around 2031, the Year of the Metal Pig, or 2032, the Year of the Water Rat, a match worthy of sharing your heart deeply will come into view quite naturally.

One thing to do from today is to practice letting out honestly, just once, to someone you like or someone close to you, a frail word such as 'I am worn out right now' or 'Help me'.

Yours is the structure of a great tree rooted in a rocky mountain, wringing the strength of its whole body taut, so the tightest bottleneck of all is that you cannot by yourself release the force that has gone into body and mind. The habit of stretching every muscle straight and holding a correct posture even after you have gone to bed, and the unease that says you feel guilt if you skip exercise even on a day of rest, are signs that your energy stays always in a state of tension. Look into the fine energies of the hidden stems, and the Needle Star lies overlapped across your three pillars, so your nerves are apt to stand keenly on edge, and the Ghost Gate reaches there as well, so when the night deepens, thought follows on the tail of thought and you are all too likely to sink into the place where you sit in judgment on yourself.

To use the body without cease is an instinctive defense, an effort to spread the pressure of Metal out through the flesh, yet training without rest only dries up the sap of the tree in the end. That your throat grows dry and your lips and the rims of your eyes parched, because you will not make yourself drink water, is likewise a natural image, a symbol that arises where the moisture of Water, your Resource stars, runs short. Take as your ground the following of a physician's prescription and care, and in daily life, in place of exercise that whips the body, what you sorely need is a still time of emptying, in which you soak in lukewarm water or walk a forest path without a sound and lay your tension down.

This year, 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse, is a year in which blazing flame comes strongly in upon you, forms the Tiger-Horse Fire Half-Bureau with the Tiger wood of your day branch, and greatly widens the stage of your work. The Yang Fire of the heavenly stem trims the Yang Metal of your month stem, and the Horse fire of the earthly branch holds the Monkey metal of your month branch in check, so it is a favorable flow for spreading wide before the world the skill you have honed all this while, and for setting foot in new ground. Only, Yang Water, the Mystic, of the Water Dog luck cycle in which you now stand, and Yang Fire, the Creative, of this year strike each other in the stem clash between Yang Fire and Yang Water, so you must accept the tension of having the deep thoughts of your heart or your original plans run up against circumstances you did not foresee, and schedules or roles abruptly turned about.

Today, October 12, 2026, is an Earth Goat day, a day filled with the energy of the Avoid Element, for heavenly stem and earthly branch alike are parched earth. By the Twelve Stages, today enters the seat of Storage and the energy sinks deep within, so if you try to make an important decision or to force your way through a schedule, your heart will only grow hasty and weariness is all too likely to pile up. Today is a day on which it serves you better to set calmly in order the things already in your hand, and to step out from under others' eyes and keep a stillness of your own, than to attempt any expansion beyond your strength.

Your luck cycles have passed through the harsh wind of iron blades of the Metal Rooster luck cycle of your teens, and now rest in the Water Dog luck cycle of your twenties (August 2023 to August 2033, ages 20–29). Your teens, now past, were a weary stretch in which heavenly stem and earthly branch alike came crowding in as keen-edged Noble Authority, and you had to endure strict training and discipline hard to bear at a young age and go through a bone-paring apprenticeship. In your twenties now, Yang Water, the Mystic, comes in at the heavenly stem and lets you breathe, yet the Dog earth of the earthly branch muddies the waterway, so it is a time when help and caution stand evenly matched and you must bear the confusion that comes with new challenges.

Yet the Water Pig luck cycle that you will meet on turning thirty (August 2033 to August 2043, ages 30–39) is filled, heavenly stem and earthly branch alike, with clear, deep Water energy, and it will be your finest prime, when at last your great tree overcomes the chill autumn wind and lets its green leaves hang wide. The Wood Rat luck cycle of your forties that follows (August 2043 to August 2053, ages 40–49) is likewise a peaceful span of years, in which Companion and the Nurturer blend and you make your own ground and footing firm, so from thirty onward your destiny will ride a weighty current of water and go forward unhindered. Your later years, from your fifties on, will grow somewhat busy as the energies of Earth and Fire cross, yet the roots you set down in your thirties and forties run deep and will not easily be shaken, so there is no reason to fear the weariness of today.

The grain of the INFP, which you weighed and chose for yourself, has points where it interestingly overlaps with the structure of your saju and points where it parts from it. The bearing that sinks inward and would guard the values that are your own within (I), the sense that sees by intuition through to the essence of things (N), and the bearing that would take a situation in supply without being bound to form (P) all look in exactly the same direction as the axes your saju points to: inwardness, intuition and a supple artistry. The gentleness with which you call yourself sunny, delight in whimsical imaginings and disarm others is a strength that wells up from this very thing, the pure soul of the INFP.

Yet Fierce Authority, lodged in the month pillar of your saju, holds out without cease the blade of cold, clear-headed reason and strict self-censure (T). To others you show the face of a mediator, endlessly generous and warm, and yet when it comes to looking at yourself you hold up the yardstick of a stern tactician who allows not a hair's breadth of error, and so each time the gap between ideal and reality opens in your heart, harsh self-reproach and tears break out. On the outside you would embrace the world with a tender heart (F), while within you whip yourself with bone-paring analysis and control (T), and these two grains are, you might say, pulling against each other in a ceaseless tug-of-war within one body.

To keep the delicate sensibility of this type and yet not be hurt by the keen-edged blade of Fierce Authority, you must draw wisely on Water, your Resource stars, which is your Vital Element. Set down the compulsion that you must turn out a perfect piece of work, and keep, at regular times, an hour of reflection in which you simply pour out as writing or lyrics, without judging them, the thoughts and feelings that rise in the stillness before dawn. When after thirty you pass into the Water Pig luck cycle, where the energy of Water brims and rolls, this inner conflict will grow far gentler and ripen into a generous embrace that holds you just as you are.

The reason the dancer of Dadu crushed the tops of her own feet and worked over her movements the whole night through was that the discipline of those days held nothing of worth but flawless perfection. Yet the world of today is an age that prizes far more highly than a statue set hard without a gap the honest grain of one human being who wavers and still walks her own road in silence. When you draw back the blade you have aimed at yourself and turn that keen-edged tension toward the stage of the world outside, your strictness will bloom not as self-reproach but as an aura without equal, one no one can presume to match.

First, in the matter of work and achievement, from the second half of this year, 2026, through the coming 2027 is a time when the creative heat of the Output stars surges up, so do not stop at performance on the stage, and knock at the doors of new expression, such as acting, designing choreography of your own, or the writing of lyrics. The other road you asked about is already sprouting beneath your feet, and it will show a definite outline as it rides the flow of 2027, the Year of the Fire Goat, so you may throw yourself in without hesitation.

Second, in dealing with people and bonds, do not strive to show only a perfect self to those who stay at your side, and form the practice of sometimes being the first to confide a disordered self and the lacks you carry within. Your tensed nerves will at last loosen in places where people of the Advisor or the Artist kind are gathered, those who think deeply and ride the flow supply, so before you meet the rough clash of the coming 2028, the Year of the Earth Monkey, you must have dependable friends of the heart at your side.

Third, in the matter of your body and the place where you stay, before this year is out prepare a still setting that will ease the tension of your bed, and cut off firmly the habit of staying awake alone late into the night and overworking your body. Lower the lights of your room to a soft glow and keep something blue or a symbol of clear water near you, and each night hold a ritual of rest through which a gentle warmth can seep into a heart set chill and hard.

Fourth, in making ready for the future to come, hold in your breast the season of Water that runs from 2031, the Year of the Metal Pig, when you turn twenty-eight, on into the Water Pig luck cycle of your thirties, and do not try in haste to prove everything. The unease and self-reproach you go through now are no more than the pain of a great tree tearing its bark in order to put on a hard ring of growth, so you must learn the way of waiting for the time and making firm what is within.

If, two to four weeks after following this counsel, you can go to bed at ease, saying 'This much was well done for today', without tearing at your breast even when you have fallen a little short of the goal you set yourself, then you are walking onto the right road.

A tree rooted in a cleft of rock grows firmer at its base the harder the wind blows. Your steps, which from childhood carried a cold blade within, crossed the sea alone and walked all the way here, were never in vain, and that weary tempering will before long become the pillar of a great tree that no wind or rain in the world can break.

There is one word I leave in your keeping, with its time appointed, so watch with care the threshold of autumn in 2031, the Year of the Metal Pig, when you turn twenty-eight. For in that year the upright honor of Noble Authority comes down from heaven and the clear, deep current of Pig water flows in along the earth, and the stubborn unease and self-censure that had settled in your heart will be washed away like melting snow. When that time comes you will learn how to command the stage wholly by your own breath and not by another's standard, and to stand alone and lead in new ground will become far easier. Around that time, come to me again and bring those steps made whole, held close in your arms: what grain of person you have grown into, and what new road you have chosen for yourself and are walking.

The empty seat of your birth hour still rests in mist, so if on a later day you come to know that hour, you may come again at any time and throw open the door of the story that remains. Do not fear the swaying, and spread those green leaves wide to the ends of the world.

I pray that a clear shade all your own may fall generously over the road you are walking now.