Bruno Mars's SajuMetal Within Late-Autumn Earth, Opening a Buried Waterway Through Song (Metal Dragon)Billboard · October 8, 1985

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You are metal standing with a thick crown of earth upon it. Born Yang Metal in the Dog month of late autumn, you sit on earth in all three seats of your year, month and day, so the strength holding you up was more than ample from the very start. The world, having watched you step onto a stage at four, sees you as a man of fire burning under the spotlight, but to my eye the breath of this chart lies not in fire but in water. The earth that receives and stores is so thick that only when you open the waterway locked inside it does this metal give out a clear ring.

Around the reign of King Munjong of Goryeo, in the market streets of Gaegyeong, there was a physician who held the same Metal Dragon Day Pillar as you. From boyhood, beside the elders of the apothecary, he learned other men’s prescriptions by ear and copied them by hand, and no one read a pulse faster than he did. Yet the more his learning piled up in him layer upon layer, the more he settled for copying the prescriptions of famous men rather than offering his own, and because he came from the market, the road to having his skill recognized by the Royal Medical Office scarcely ever opened. Where that man’s life flowed, I will tell you at the end.

Metal Dragon — Metal Within Late-Autumn Earth, Opening a Buried Waterway Through Song

You are someone who, once your mind is made up, does not stop halfway. In the day branch of your Metal Dragon Day Pillar sit the Fierce Star and the White Tiger Star together, so yours is a grain of strong drive that rarely leaves itself room to step back. The Dog month of late autumn is the season when metal comes into its own, so your Day Master draws strength from its own season, and Yin Metal, the same metal as you, hides inside the Ox Earth and the Dog Earth to serve as your roots. On top of that, the three earths of Ox, Dog and Dragon are all Resource stars that give birth to your Day Master and hold it up, so this chart has a strong Day Master.

Your structure is a Fierce Authority Structure. Yang Fire Fierce Authority shows in your month stem, so you are a vessel that draws its strength from pressure and responsibility. Yet in that very Fierce Authority seat, the Heavenly Virtue Star and the Monthly Virtue Star sit together. It means the stage that drove you hard was also the passage through which the people and chances that would help you came in. The childhood days of climbing onto your family band’s stage five days a week must have been grueling, but in this chart that pressure worked to temper you.

The heaviest thing in this chart is the Resource stars. With three earths, your power to take in what you see and hear and store it in your body is very great. The path of learning to sing by imitating Elvis and Michael Jackson, and of mastering drums, guitar and keys by hand on stage, is exactly the grain of the Mystic. Only, when the power to take in overflows, giving out tends to come late. The criticism that your albums are few and short is likely not unrelated to this structure. On top of that there is the Dragon–Dog Clash, in which the Dog Earth of your month branch and the Dragon Earth of your day branch collide head-on, so your heart must often have tossed between your place of work and your place as yourself.

The road of music you have walked is close to the right answer this chart points to. Let us begin with how you work. With heavy Resource stars, you have the power to listen deeply to other people’s music, study it and digest it into your own, and with a Fierce Authority Structure your skill shows all the more on big stages and in moments of crisis. And inside the Ox Earth and the Dragon Earth hides the Yin Water of the Performer. It is the energy that breaks frames and brings out new expression, and the heart of this chart is that it lies buried in earth rather than showing on the surface.

That is why your Vital Element is Water. Water that lets the piled-up strength of earth and metal flow outward, that is, expression and finished work, is what keeps you alive. As you said in an interview, you write songs not by sitting down at a desk determined to write but when a melody comes pouring out while you play guitar or piano, and that too meets exactly the structure in which work goes well when it comes out the way water flows. As for the fields that suit you, composing and producing come first as the place where water flows, stage direction is the place that uses the strength of Fierce Authority, and shaping other artists’ music is the place that uses the discerning ear of the Resource stars.

The point where you get stuck is clear. Taking in so much that you weigh the finish endlessly and never let the work out — this is the trap of an excess of Resource. Judging by the force of the Fierce Star and the Fierce Authority Structure, yours is a vessel that finds it hard to stay long inside a frame someone else has built, so standing under your own name suits you better than being bound to an organization. Joining hands with an equal partner, as in Silk Sonic, while holding your own share of the seat is the way of working that fits this chart best.

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You are a vessel that can carry wealth. Your Day Master is strong, the Wood that means wealth shows as Yin Wood in your year stem and also hides as Yin Wood inside the Dragon Earth of your day branch to form a root, and that Wood is even your Support Element, so you have the strength to guard and grow the money that comes in. Only, this chart shows no Dynamic Wealth that turns money over in large sweeps. Rather than money staked big on a single round, your grain is money that piles up faithfully and flows for a long time, like Steady Wealth.

The road by which money comes is the current in which Water gives birth to Wood, that is, the road on which your talent becomes finished work and that work becomes wealth. A structure in which a song written once keeps making value year after year suits this chart best. The stage is the seat of Fierce Authority, so it brings in big money, but money that burns your body and energy, while a song is money that keeps flowing even while you rest, so it serves you better not to weigh the two the same.

The times to be careful are clear too. In the Metal Dog year of 2030, another metal comes in and competition and the splitting of shares grow, and it is a year when the Dog Earth of the year strikes the Dragon Earth of your day branch, so the boundaries of money and collaboration shake easily. It is best to tie up any new partnership or large contract before then. On the other hand, the Earth Rooster year of 2029, the Water Rat year of 2032, the Wood Tiger year of 2034 and the Wood Rabbit year of 2035 are years when the energy holds you up.

What to do from this month — within November, write your income down in two parts, the share that comes from performing and the share that comes from songs, and choose one piece of work that will grow the share from songs.

The person who comes to you as a partner has the grain of Wood, that is, someone upright and faithful who keeps their place beside you. Yin Wood, the Steady Wealth that signifies a spouse, shows in your year stem and is bound to your Yang Metal Day Master in the Yin Wood–Yang Metal Combination. But the year stem and the day stem sit apart, so it is not a combination that fuses the two into one but a pull that keeps each tied to the other, and so the bond tends to run deep yet last long at a distance. Yin Wood hides inside the Dragon Earth of your day branch too, so there is also a grain of holding someone long in your heart without showing it.

What catches is your spouse palace. The Dog Earth of your month branch strikes head-on the Dragon Earth of your day branch, where a partner sits, and the Fierce Star and the White Tiger Star sit in that day branch as well, so it is a structure in which the closest seat shakes easily. It means that the bigger your work and your stage grow, the more easily time with those closest to you gets pushed aside. It has been reported that a long bond that began around 2011 parted ways around 2025, but what lies inside that belongs to the two of them, so I will touch only the grain of this seat.

The good energy is clear as well. The Golden Carriage Star and the Red Romance Star sit together in your month branch, so your charm draws people quietly, and meeting a partner easily becomes the turning point that changes the board of your life. As years when bonds move, I name the Earth Rooster year of 2029, when the Rooster Metal of the year combines with the Dragon Earth of your day branch, and the Wood Rabbit year of 2035, when Yin Wood, the star of a spouse, combines with your Day Master. The Metal Dog year of 2030, when your day branch is struck by a clash again, is a year to spare your words all the more the closer someone is, and to look after the rhythm of daily life first.

What to do from today — first set aside a time each week that you keep free of work, and tell the person closest to you about that time in advance.

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A chart thick with earth lets energy pile up and pool easily. When only taking in goes on and giving out is blocked, it is a grain in which days of body and mind sinking heavily together grow frequent. So for you, rest is not simply stopping but letting things flow. Your Vital Element, Water, is the energy of night within the day, so the hours of quietly working with sound late at night can be not labor but recovery for you.

The White Tiger Star and the Fierce Star in your day branch mean a rough, hurried energy sits close to the body. The more a stage is full of dance and big movement, the more you should put sequence and safety first, and it is better to cut back on pushing through on sheer force of will on tired days. During stretches when big tours run on, leaving half of the day after a show free of any schedule is the way of caring for yourself that fits this chart.

In 2026, the Horse Fire of the year meets the Ox Earth of your year branch, a year when pent-up pressure in the heart can rise all at once, so build time into your schedule in advance to cool down when feelings heat up. If discomfort in the body continues, that is for a physician to see and judge.

For you, the Fire Horse year of 2026 is a year in which support and caution are mixed in roughly equal measure, and in one word it is a year of changing over. In October the Water Horse Decade Luck that had held you up for ten years came to an end, and you crossed into the Metal Snake Decade Luck. Releasing your fourth studio album in February and reaching the top was a harvest gathered at the tail end of the last Decade Luck, while water was still entering through the stems.

There is a fair wind too. This year’s Yang Fire and the Yin Metal of your new Decade Luck combine in the stems, so it is a year in which the pressure of Fierce Authority that drove you hard is bound up with the energy of the new Decade Luck and flows far more gently. It is an energy that lets you cross the threshold without great friction in the very year your Decade Luck changes. Only, the Horse Fire of the year meets the Ox Earth of your year branch and stirs the Scalding Fire Star, so you must watch that feelings stored up around outside relationships and old fences do not burst out all of a sudden.

Let us look at the two months that remain. Today the solar term turned and you entered the Earth Pig month, and November is a month when water comes in but earth comes with it, so it is wise to use the good flow while putting off any promise that overreaches. December is a month when the energy of water enters clearly, so it is good to sketch then the outline of the songs and work you will put out in the new year.

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Let me first trace the road behind you. The Wood Monkey Decade Luck from ages eleven to twenty was an even stretch, but the Water Goat year of 2003 within it was a year when the Goat Earth of the year clashed with the Ox Earth of your year branch. The year branch is the seat of the background you grew up in, so it was a year when the fence you had long leaned on changed. That was the very year you left Hawaii at seventeen and went over to Los Angeles. The following Wood Monkey year of 2004 was a year when the Yang Wood of the year collided head-on with your Yang Metal Day Master, so the board must have shaken hard. The story that a contract signed that year ended without result is better read as a sign that it was a year of tempering.

From twenty-one to forty, that is, from around October 2006 to around October 2026, were the twenty years in which the Water Goat Decade Luck and the Water Horse Decade Luck came one after the other. In both, water entered directly through the stems, so it was the time when the waterway of expression that had lain buried in earth finally opened outward. That the years in which you made your name and rose to the top of the world overlap these twenty years exactly was no coincidence.

Now comes the Metal Snake Decade Luck that begins at forty-one. This decade, from around October 2026 to around October 2036, is an even stretch, in which another metal enters through the stems and competition and sharing grow, while the fire of responsibility and pressure enters through the branches. Unlike the past twenty years, the Decade Luck does not supply water, so the water must be drawn from each year’s annual luck. 2027, 2029, 2032, 2034 and 2035 are years when the energy holds you up, while the Metal Dog year of 2030, the Metal Pig year of 2031 and the Water Ox year of 2033 are years to be careful. 2030 in particular is the year to be most careful of all in this decade, as a clash striking your day branch overlaps with the energy of competition.

The Metal Dragon Decade Luck that begins at fifty-one, that is, from around October 2036 to around October 2046, is a decade in which the same two characters as your Day Pillar come as your Decade Luck. It is an even stretch in which metal and earth pile up further, so unless you deliberately open a waterway at this time above all, only what you take in piles up and what you give out easily shrinks. The Earth Rabbit Decade Luck that begins at sixty-one, that is, from 2046 to around 2056, is a mixed stretch in which Wood, the star of wealth, and earth enter together, so the joy of gathering what you have stored up and the burden of guarding it come side by side. In the Earth Tiger Decade Luck after that, too, Wood and earth enter together, so the joy of sharing what you have gathered and the burden of guarding it will come together.

In the end that physician never had his name entered in the rolls of the Royal Medical Office. Yet from one winter after he passed forty, with the hand that had copied other men’s prescriptions, he wrote down on separate pages the symptoms and prescriptions he had met himself and gave them to the physicians around him, and those few pages went round the markets of Gaegyeong for a long time. In a world where the door to having his learning recognized was shut, the study of the Mystic he had piled up was put to use only when he wrote out his own prescriptions and gave them away. Today’s world puts a price, through stages and records, on those who give out what they have taken in as their own sound, so the work left to you lies not on the side of piling up but on the side of giving out.

First, make your moves in work and money in the Fire Goat year of 2027. It is a year when the energy stands on your side, so it is good to release that year the songs left aging in the drawer, and the more a year is filled with big stages, like the May 2027 concert in Goyang, the more you must keep the share from the stage and the share from songs apart. It is also a year when the annual luck strikes your year branch, so if the fence around work you have long done together changes, do not be startled but take it as a new board.

Second, in people, go beside those with deep intuition who ride the flow. People who carry the energy of your Vital Element, Water, are artist types who think deeply, adapt quickly and know how to offer counsel on other people’s music. It is best to join hands on new collaborations in the Earth Rooster year of 2029, when the annual luck combines with your day branch, and before the Metal Dog year of 2030, when competition and the splitting of shares grow, you must settle shares and roles in writing with those you work with.

Third, let body and mind rest at night and by the water. Just as the reason you dislike seeing audiences raise their phones at your concerts lies in the stage being a place made together, the night after the stage must be a place where you flow quietly on your own. Within this year, and especially in December when the energy of water comes in, if you set aside a corner of your studio in deep navy and black as the place where you work with sound at night, that color will become a signal each night that the time has come to let things flow.

Fourth, to prepare for the next Decade Luck, gather your big work into the Water Rat year of 2032. It is the year when water enters most strongly in this decade, so finishing your next signature work in that year, before the Metal Dragon Decade Luck of 2036 arrives with its piling metal and earth, is highly auspicious. Treat 2030 and 2031 before it as years for guarding rather than widening.

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The Fire Goat year of 2027 is coming, a year when the energy leans to your side. Before then, choose a place to release one song you have long kept only refining. Once you have lived through where that year’s stages and new songs flowed, bring that road with you and come back to this seat.