Seonghyeon's SajuOne vent of fire bored through a frozen winter mountain (Earth Horse)K-POP · 2009-01-13

Your Day Master is Yang Earth — not field soil but mountain and embankment. It is the seat that dams a current, that stands with its back to the wind and shelters what lies behind it. You were born in a month when earth runs strong, so the season lends its force as well. That makes your earth unusually thick. I do not often see a child of seventeen carrying this much weight.

Your structure stands as the Blade. A structure of the cutting edge. Decisions come fast, the drive to push through runs strong, and the grain grows clearer the closer a crisis comes. What is more, that blade sits in your Day Branch, and the force of that seat is at the very top of twelve stages. The strongest character has taken the strongest seat available. Your members picked you as the loudest one, I hear. I laughed at that. With that character in that seat there is no way to be quiet.

But the blade cuts inward too. Your chart carries the Ghost Gate. It is the instinct that catches what others cannot see, and the price is that thinking does not switch off late into the night. The habit of turning over one careless remark for hours comes from this character. Being called perceptive and being called sensitive are, in truth, two names for the same thing.

One more thing to mark. Your mountain has no root. Which is to say — the earth is this thick, yet nothing beneath it registers in the chart as a root holding it up. A mountain that is large but unsupported. So while you look composed on the outside, inside you have probably always felt you were holding it alone. Nobody is pushing you up; you stand on your own weight.

You entered INTP for yourself. The sort who watches quietly and does not open their mouth until the logic has fully assembled in their head. But the answer your chart gives runs close to the opposite. It goes out, collides, decides, pushes. I will unpack that gap later — for now know only this. There is a wide distance between the self you know and the self you were born with, and that distance is the channel your talent came out through.

In place of a root, heaven attached something else. A star that brings a person when crisis comes, a star that puts you at the front of a group, and a star through which help arrives from places you cannot see — three of them are hung here. Being spotted at an amusement park at nine years old belongs to this same grain. You did not go looking; the other side recognised you. The important doors of your life will keep opening this way — not because you knocked, but because someone opened them. So do not cut people off lightly. Your fortune comes from the direction of people.

Let me tell you the most striking thing in your chart. The tool for cutting the mountain down does not appear in it. Not one character.

The force that carries what is inside a person out into the world has its own name in this study, and you do not have that character at all. The earth is this thick and there is no shovel to move it out. Charts like this usually end in stifling. What needs saying piles up with no opening to leave through, and it hardens inside.

And yet you made over a hundred tracks in your trainee years alone.

I sat with that for a long while. You bored the shaft without the tool. Where others dig with a shovel in hand, you scraped it out with your fingernails. The hundred is not the impressive part — what you endured until that number existed is the impressive part. A person born without the channel made the channel. That is the most precious thing I have found in your chart.

So your work has to run like this. Not slotting into a seat someone else laid out and turning as a part, but standing where something gets made from nothing. The act of making is your breathing hole. Standing on a stage is good too, but let go of the making side and your mountain seals over again. Writing songs, building a set — keep work that shapes something with your hands beside you for life.

If you ask whether an organisation suits you or standing alone does, right now the answer is neither. More precisely, the making seat inside an organisation is your seat. Left alone your mountain loses direction; left purely to instructions the vent closes. A structure where someone else lays the board while the making stays in your hands — which happens to be exactly where you are placed. Once weight accumulates, you will be the one adjusting that ratio.

The grain of your growth runs so. Seventeen through twenty-six is the stretch you are in now, and these ten years run gentle for you. Fire and wood come in together, so the frozen mountain loosens and the fuel comes with it. Twenty-seven through thirty-six changes grain — earth arrives again. Laying more earth on an already thick mountain, so that stretch calls for boring rather than piling.

Whichever side you are on, one thing made under your own name has to accumulate each year. Without that, however good the seat, your mountain hardens.

Money runs a little unusually for you. The character that means wealth in your chart is the very force you must govern. Put simply — the more money comes in, the more the mountain freezes.

This is not meant to frighten you. It does not say you cannot earn; it says that if you do not settle how you earn and how you spend, money will cool you. Charts like this hit a stretch where the larger the account grows, the stranger the drain on energy and the duller the work becomes. People usually try to solve that by chasing larger money, which freezes it further.

Your remedy is single. Turn the money that comes in into fire. Which means — do not spend it on piling up, put it back into what you make. Equipment, study, a room to work in; money spent growing the power to make is fuel to you, not cold water. Simply stored, the same number becomes ice.

One more thing. In your chart the seat of the father runs thin while the seat of the mother registers deep. The whole household moved from Daejeon up to Seoul, I hear. That decision settled the entire opening stretch of your life. So when money comes, send it toward that seat first — by this study too, that is what returns the most force to you.

Starting this month — separate the account money arrives in from the account you make things with. And set part of what arrives to move into the making account automatically. Leave it as something you must decide each time and you will certainly stop doing it.

Let me name where to grow as well. Your wealth opens far wider on the side where what you made carries value than on the side where you receive a share of someone else's board. The share is small now because you are young, but past the middle twenties, once work with your name attached accumulates, the grain changes. So what to watch now is not the figure but where your name is left. Whether the structure leaves your name on what you made, or only sells your labour and ends — build the eye to tell those apart while young and it returns tenfold later.

There is a particular circumstance in your spouse seat. That seat stands in direct collision with an outside force. Two of the strongest characters in this study face each other and push.

It shows up like this. A lukewarm relationship does not last with you. Good is very good and off is sharply off, because you cannot bear the flatness in between. From the other side it is hard to read. Someone who gave everything yesterday shuts the door today and goes in alone.

So the grain that suits you is not a pair who stay attached but a pair who are each busy. Each with their own work clearly, and high density when you meet. Someone who believes affection means being together all day will not last with you. That is not for lack of affection — it is how your mountain is built.

One thing to mark. That blade inside you comes out in love too. Once you judge yourself right, you go to win against the other person. But winning in a relationship leaves nothing. In the moment of an argument, ask yourself whether what you want to say is “I am right” or “I need you.” Nine times in ten it is the latter.

Marriage is far off at your age, but let me mark one timing. Your relationships move hard in the years when the spouse seat is shaken, and in such years you will either meet or part, but always largely. Nothing about it passes quietly.

Starting today — make a rule that when you clash with someone, you do not answer on the spot but leave it a night. Your blade is fast, so you need one device that makes it slow.

Let me take the body at some length. It matters.

In your chart the coldest force and the hottest force are locked against each other head-on. The old ones called this water and fire at war. Two seats weaken under this structure — the heart and blood pressure, and the kidneys and bladder. It is not a matter of guarding one; both are caught together.

On top of that your chart carries one more star concerning fire and heat. A seat that warns of burns, fevers, and drug reactions. It includes the grain of feeling boiling up and cooling off fast. Anger presses down inside for a long stretch and then goes off all at once.

And this year happens to be the year that star doubles. This is not a warning meant to scare you; it is a date. Between this year and next, particularly around the turn from late autumn into winter, there is a seat where feeling shakes hard once. The body tends to give way along with it, so knowing in advance helps a great deal.

Having no metal at all is worth marking too. The lungs, the airway, the skin are the weak seats. For a child whose work uses the voice this is not a light matter. Do not stay long in dry places, and when the throat closes do not push through it.

Two prescriptions only. First, warming the body is medicine for you. Live with cold things at hand and the mountain freezes further. Second, build one device that shuts your head off before sleep. A person carrying the Ghost Gate does not have thinking switch off at night. Tiring the body is the surest way — the cycling and the board you like, an evening habit of using the body, those are your medicine.

If I must choose one word for this year, it is thaw. A year when fire enters a frozen mountain. The force you need most arrives from heaven and earth together, and across the next ten years few will match it. That your first full year after debut happens to fall on this seat is not a bad arrangement.

The good first. This year's fire pushes back the cold that had been freezing your mountain. A long-empty seat fills this year, and what was pressed down comes loose. A good time both for bringing out what you have made and for putting your name on a new board.

But the same fire is the danger. That star doubles this year, and a grain of fire striking against fire comes in besides. The mark of a year like this: things go well while the body suffers, and it is exciting while feeling swings wildly. It is hard not for lack of good things but because the good things come too fast.

So the rule for this year is single. You set the speed. Take everything as it comes and you break at year's end. By month, early summer is the best seat, and conversely the further into late autumn and the year's end, the more guarded the seat. The final month of the year in particular calls for care of both body and mind.

As for today — the force that came in today runs gentle for you. What is more, it entered at the first of twelve stages, the freshest seat there is. A good day for starting something new. If a thought came to you today, do not defer it; write down even the first line. What begins today runs long. Only, today's force also carries a grain of opening things and not closing them, so today do not start and leave the ending for tomorrow. Close even one thing inside today and the force becomes wholly yours. Talk of money or goods changing hands also comes easily today, and that sort is better left a night and answered tomorrow.

Your life curve is the kind that opens up front. The seat of childhood held an empty place, a grain that had to be opened by your own hand, and so it went. Being spotted by chance on your ninth birthday is, by this study, no accident. A child born to an empty seat has the road opened from outside.

You are now in the stretch from seventeen to twenty-six. These ten years are the seat that thaws your mountain. Fire and wood come together, so talent goes outward and people recognise it. Only, one empty place remains in this stretch as well, a grain in which waiting to be filled by others will not do. Everything you stack now has to be stacked by your own hand.

Twenty-seven through thirty-six is a stretch where more earth comes in. The mountain thickens. Position and weight arrive in that time, and stifling arrives with them. What is needed then is not a new seat but the force to bore. Fix the habit of making now and you will get through that decade.

Thirty-seven through forty-six loosens again as fire returns. That stretch will be when your name spreads widest. This is as far as I can tell you now.

Let me pin one timing in advance. Between twenty-two and twenty-five there is a seat where cold gathers. It runs about three years. Treat those as years to hold rather than years to start. What you stack in the few years before decides your strength to get through them.

I once saw someone burning charcoal in the mountains of Joseon. The whole range lay under snow and only that one kiln gave off steam. People walked up the snow road to get that fire. The man himself had no idea his kiln was remarkable. He thought his work was simply not letting the fire go out. I am talking about you.

Your chart and the type you entered diverge on three of the four axes. It is not common to see them open this wide. And the interesting part is that the divergence is not the problem — it is where your talent came from.

Start with outward or inward. Your chart goes out and collides. That blade in the Day Branch, the force at the top of twelve stages, the general's star attached besides — this is not an arrangement built to stay quiet. Yet you answered that you turn inward.

A time has to be named here. You became a trainee in earnest around twelve. From then to seventeen was your previous stretch, a seat governed by the force of learning and storing. And through those few years you made a hundred tracks inside a room. At the age for going out and colliding, you stacked alone in a room. The exact period in which your self-image formed is precisely this stretch. Answering that you turn inward comes not from your nature but from that season's seat.

Deciding and pushing versus keeping open splits as well. The chart is the deciding side while your answer is the keeping-open side. Same reason — a person who makes things cannot decide the answer in advance. To make a hundred tracks you have to reopen ninety-nine times. You trained that habit.

Let me tell you something interesting. The function carrying the most weight in your chart is the side that builds an outside system and turns it. But the leading function of the type you chose builds logic on the inside. Directly opposite. This does not mean you are wrong; it means one whole force is still sitting unused. Some day when you stand where the board gets designed — at that crossing from the one who makes to the one who runs it — that force will wake.

[Part A] Prescriptions to Turn Your Fortune

First priority — people. The ones who refill you are bright, warm in expression, at ease standing in front of others. They are the side that heats your frozen mountain. Keep only calm, analytical people beside you and it will be comfortable, but the mountain will not thaw. One thing to do from today — outside the team, settle on one person who will hear what you made and react to it straight away. Having someone to play it to before it is finished is what gives making its speed.

Second priority — surroundings. A seat the sun reaches, a room with warm light, revives your force. Stay long in a dark, chilly workroom and your mountain hardens. One thing to do from today — change the lighting where you sit longest to a warm colour, and leave the curtain open through the day. It looks trivial; for you it is not.

Third priority — action. Using the body, sending things out, standing in front of people — that is how you use your Vital Element. The basketball and the board you like are not merely hobbies; they are your prescription. One thing to do from today — do not put what you made in a drawer. Play one thing a week to someone, unfinished or not.

Fourth priority — symbols. Red and warm colours, the south, a seat the sun reaches. And the green you like is favourable to you too — it is the colour of the fuel that keeps fire alive. Your eye for choosing what you like already knew its own force. If I give you the core in one line, it is this — your mountain does not grow by being piled; it comes alive by being bored through.

[Part B] A Thousand Years' Counsel

First, this is the best year of ten, so start what you mean to start inside this year. From late autumn, though, stop starting and put your force into holding what has begun. Inside this month, set the rest of the year down on a single page.

Second, before twenty-six ends, be sure to leave something completed under your own name. The stretch you are in is where your talent runs best, and what you leave here becomes the tool that bores through the stifling of the following decade. Decide on that one thing and begin it inside this year.

Third, prepare from now for the cold stretch between twenty-two and twenty-five. Those three years are for holding out, not for expanding. Put your body and your people in order beforehand and that stretch will feel far shorter.

Fourth, never let go of making. The larger the stage grows the less time there is to make, and for you that is the breathing hole closing. However busy it gets, keep one time a week to start something with your own hands.

Let me add a word on the talisman. A talisman is heaven's force caught in ink and set down on this ground. What your mountain needs is fire — the warmth that thaws what has frozen. The year of a person who carries an ember and lives believing “this year it thaws” differs from the year of one who carries nothing. The talisman does not thaw the mountain for you. It is that you come to thaw it.