Giselle’s SajuWhen a Late-Autumn Jewel Finds Its Stream (Metal Rooster)K-POP · October 30, 2000

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You are a freshly cut jewel. Yet that jewel rests on the dry earth of late autumn, and the water that could wash its light runs only as a single thread hidden deep within the soil. Yours is a Metal Rooster Day Pillar: your Day Master, Yin Metal, sits on Rooster Metal in your day branch, so Metal holds up Metal. Of the six characters in your three confirmed pillars, three are Metal, two are Earth and one is Fire, while not a single Water or Wood character appears on the surface. People will see you first under the stage lights, but what this chart truly thirsts for is not brighter light. It is a stream that can wash that light clear and carry it onward. You have said yourself that you are surprisingly introverted. To my eyes, that quality looks less like shyness than like time spent choosing a way out for the sound pooled within you. Your birth time has not been confirmed, so I will read you only from the three confirmed pillars.

In a riverside workshop in Lisbon during the reign of King Manuel, I once saw a painter who shared your Metal Rooster Day Pillar. As befits a man with the Peach Blossom seated in his day branch, the faces of saints he painted made even passing sailors stop in their tracks. Yet commissions for altarpieces always came in under the workshop master’s name, and that single door was his only way to make his skill known to the world. He spent many years painting only the faces in other men’s pictures, waiting for the day he could put his own name in the corner of a painting.

Metal Rooster — When a Late-Autumn Jewel Finds Its Stream

You are someone who stands firmly by your own standards. The Dog month of late autumn is the season when Earth gives birth to Metal, which makes it Yin Metal’s own season. Your roots lie in two places. The Yin Metal hidden within the Dog Earth of your month branch is one root, and the Yin Metal at the heart of the Rooster Metal in your day branch is another. With the Rival of Yang Metal on your year stem standing at your side, the natal chart as a whole is strong. Still, Noble Authority of Yang Fire shows on your month stem and keeps that strength in check, so I will not declare it strong from the structure alone. Your Prime Fortune lies in your day branch, and your Needle Star on your Day Master. You build your place with your own strength, and you have an eye that misses no fine detail. That eye also carries a deeply ingrained habit of taking aim at yourself before anyone else.

Yours is a Noble Authority Structure. Yang Fire stands visible on your month stem, a vessel that earns trust through principle and responsibility. That Yang Fire is bound to your Yin Metal Day Master in a Yang Fire–Yin Metal Combination, so you are the kind of person who ties yourself firmly to your role and its rules. A stage where many move in unison may have felt less confining to you than like clothes cut to fit. Your Heavenly Virtue and Lunar Virtue sit on your month stem. It is a position that wins trust in public settings, where great trouble tends to pass as something small. Here I will note only that the introverted side of the INFJ you have shared points in the same direction as your saju.

Elsewhere, your chart pulls in two directions. The Dragon Earth of your year branch and the Dog Earth of your month branch collide head-on in a Dragon–Dog Clash. It is a structure in which the ground where you grew up and the ground where you work are shaken hard. You have said publicly that after finishing high school you came to Korea and lived as a trainee, and I read that move between grounds as touching the nature of this clash. This is interpretation, not proof of the facts. Meanwhile, the Dragon Earth of your year branch and the Rooster Metal of your day branch are bound in a Dragon–Rooster Combination, so the thread linking the roots you left behind to who you are now does not break.

You are someone who carries out your share precisely within a system. With a Noble Authority Structure and a strong Day Master, you were born with the strength to take responsibility for the role you are given. In your public career, you are a rapper and vocalist in aespa, SM Entertainment’s four-member group that debuted with ‘Black Mamba’ on November 17, 2020, and you have shared in the group’s work through ‘Next Level’, ‘Savage’, ‘Spicy’, ‘Drama’, ‘Supernova’, ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Whiplash’. In 2021 you also took the stage in the project unit ZOO alongside NCT’s Taeyong, Jeno, Hendery and Yangyang. Where many people create a single scene, you secure your own part without gaps, and in saju terms that stands on the same side as the work of Noble Authority.

What follows is the intriguing part. In this chart, the Creative and the Performer, your outlets for expression, belong to Water, yet Water does not show at all on the surface of the three pillars. It hides only as Yin Water within the Dragon Earth of your year branch. And in a 2023 interview with W Korea, you said you prefer writing melodies, that is, toplines, to writing rap lyrics. I read this as the hidden Water recognizing its own path. Letting things flow through melody is closer to this chart’s Vital Element than sharpening an edge with words. So I see three fields that suit you. The first is topline writing and composition. It is expression through which Water flows, a direct use of your Vital Element. The second is expression across Korean, Japanese and English, work in which Metal sorts words apart and Water carries them across the space between. The third is precise stage performance, where the discipline of Noble Authority and the fine detail of the Needle Star work together.

The sticking points are clear too. With Earth, your Resource element, lying thick and your standards set high, you may tend to hold back anything that is not yet finished. The remedy is a habit of first letting one or two trusted people hear your unfinished pieces. As a vessel, you lean strongly toward standing within an organization rather than as an entrepreneur standing alone outside it. Even so, you will shine brightest as you widen, one at a time, the creative spaces within it that carry your own name. In the Water Goat Decade Luck beginning at age 27, the Creative of Yin Water appears among the heavenly stems for the first time. In the Water Horse Decade Luck beginning at age 37, the Yang Water this chart has longed for comes into view. The channel of your expression is built to widen as you grow older.

I judge that you have ample capacity to receive wealth. A strong Day Master has the strength to handle wealth, and Wood, your wealth element, is this chart’s Support Element. What sets this chart apart, however, is that the path by which wealth arises is not visible on the surface. Water, which stands for talent, must flow into Wood, which stands for reward, before it becomes money, yet both Water and Wood are hidden within Dragon Earth. So your money is built to accumulate steadily when your talent remains as actual finished work and your share of it is recorded, more than through name value or any single stage.

The Rival of Yang Metal on your year stem is an energy of making together and sharing together. It fits the way a group shapes a single work among many hands. That does not mean this chart tells you how those shares are divided. The actual terms are yours to confirm. As for timing, the Fire Goat year of 2027 is a supportive year, while the Metal Dog year of 2030 and the Metal Pig year of 2031 bring a pile-up of Companion and Rival energy, making them years to be careful with money and competition. The Earth Monkey year of 2028 and the Earth Rooster year of 2029 can sink if the condition of Earth blocking Water is met, so these two, together with 2031, are named as candidates for the lowest years within these ten years. By contrast, the Water Rat year of 2032 and the Wood Tiger year of 2034 are candidates for the highest. Between them, the Water Ox year of 2033 also stands as a supportive year.

There is one thing to do starting this month. Record the fragments of melody and lyrics that come to you in one place, with the date. They are evidence that the hidden Water has become finished work, and the basis for confirming your share later on.

The star that stands for a partner in your chart is the Authority star, which is Fire. Noble Authority of Yang Fire stands upright on your month stem, and Fierce Authority of Yin Fire is hidden within the Dog Earth of your month branch. You are drawn to people who are responsible and upright and who hold their ground. Because that Noble Authority is bound to your Day Master in a Yang Fire–Yin Metal Combination, once a bond forms, it tends not to brush past lightly but to tie itself deeply. This is the nature the chart shows, and I want to be clear that it is not a statement about your actual private life.

Rooster Metal in your day branch, the seat of your spouse, gathers many stars. Your Peach Blossom Star and Red Romance Star sit in your day branch, so you were born with an energy that draws people’s eyes. Prime Fortune and the Heavenly Doctor Star share that same seat, so the partner who suits you is an equal who stands beside you rather than someone who leans on you. Yet the Rooster Metal of your day branch and the Dog Earth of your month branch are at odds in a Rooster–Dog Harm, a structure in which small differences in standards pile up the closer you are, and hearts easily drift apart. The Ghost Gate Star also overlaps in your day branch, making it easy to form a habit of turning hurt feelings over inside rather than speaking them. As for when the seat of relationships moves, the Fire Horse year of 2026 brings Authority stars in double measure, and the Wood Rabbit year of 2035 brings a Rabbit–Rooster Clash that shakes your day branch.

Here is what to do from today. Practice bringing up one thing that weighs on your heart in a few words before the day is over. For a Metal Rooster Day Pillar, a partnership lasts when the two of you align your standards in words.

This chart has firm Metal and no Water on the surface. In terms of the body, tension tends to come before rest. Your Ghost Gate Star sits in your year and day branches, so on days when your thoughts burrow inward, sleep is often the first thing to waver. The fine attention of the Needle Star does not switch off even after the work is done. Unless you set aside time to close the day, your body may rest while your mind keeps working.

Water, your Vital Element, is put to use in daily life as stillness, night, and time spent letting things flow away. In late autumn and early winter, in the months when Earth grows heavy, ease your schedule a little and look after sleep and hydration first. Walking slowly by the water, or spending an hour in a dimly lit room making nothing at all, is the kind of care that suits this chart. Your Heavenly Doctor Star sits in your day branch, a place with a great heart for caring for others. That care must be turned toward yourself with equal weight. If you have any actual physical discomfort, have a doctor examine it and follow their judgment.

The key word for the Fire Horse year of 2026 is the place you hold. Its heavenly stem, Yang Fire, is Noble Authority, and its earthly branch, Horse Fire, is Fierce Authority, so Authority stars arrive in double measure. With one more Authority added to a chart built on a Noble Authority Structure, the weight of responsibility, evaluation and discipline may have felt heavier than usual. The year’s Yang Fire reaches your Yin Metal Day Master in combination once again, but whether that combination transforms into Water is not settled. So this year’s assessment is neutral. With Water, your Vital Element, absent from the surface of your natal chart, the shield that would protect you in a crisis is thin, and there is also a Six Harm marker, which makes friction likely in close relationships. In exchange, the year’s Horse Fire clashes with Rat Water, one of your Void branches, and wakes it, so a quality of release, in which a blocked place opens up, arrives as well.

Laying this year over the Wood Monkey Decade Luck you are now in shows the following. A tailwind comes from Yang Wood, the heavenly stem of your Decade Luck, which as your Support Element opens the way to wealth and results. A headwind comes from the weight of an Authority year. As for the remaining months, October is the Earth Dog month until November 7, heavy with Earth, so it can sink you if the conditions are met. The Earth Pig month of November is a candidate for a month to watch with care, and the Metal Rat month of December is neutral. None of this year’s remaining months offers strong support, so you will benefit more by putting your strength into finishing and consolidating than by starting new things.

The Wood Rooster Decade Luck, from ages 7 to 16, was a neutral stretch that brought Dynamic Wealth and Companion together. It was likely a time of building your own strength while peering curiously at the world outside. You are now in the Wood Monkey Decade Luck, covering ages 17 to 26, which began around October 2017 and continues until around October 2027. Yang Wood on its heavenly stem is Steady Wealth and your Support Element, while Monkey Metal on its earthly branch is the Rival, an energy of competition and sharing, so this is a decade with help and caution mixed in roughly equal measure. The Metal Rat year of 2020, when you first stepped onto the stage, also falls within this Decade Luck. With the Rival arriving, it was likely a year when you had to establish your own name among many.

The Water Goat Decade Luck, beginning at age 27, runs from around October 2027 to around October 2037. With your birth time unknown, take the timing of this cycle change as approximate. Yin Water on its heavenly stem, the Creative, brings visible Water to this chart for the first time, so this is the stretch in which your outlet for expression comes into view. Yet Goat Earth on its earthly branch is the Mystic, and Earth is your Avoid Element, so the assessment is neutral, with years that call for care clearly set within it. In 2027, the year you enter it, the heavenly stems of the Decade Luck and the year collide in a Yin Fire–Yin Water Clash, making decisions easy to overturn. The years 2028 and 2029 can sink if the condition of Earth blocking Water is met. The Metal Dog year of 2030 and the Metal Pig year of 2031 are years to be careful with money and competition, and the Wood Rabbit year of 2035 brings a Rabbit–Rooster Clash that shakes your day branch. By contrast, supportive years run from the Water Rat year of 2032 through the Wood Tiger year of 2034, so the peak of this stretch stands in your early thirties. Even so, in 2033 the Goat Earth of the Decade Luck and the Ox Earth of that year collide in an Ox–Goat Clash, so do not get carried away that year either, and stay watchful.

The Water Horse Decade Luck, beginning at age 37, runs from around October 2037 to around October 2047 and is assessed as the best decade in this chart. The Performer of Yang Water rises to the heavenly stem, and the very Water that late-autumn Yin Metal has longed for at last washes the jewel. The Metal Snake Decade Luck that follows from age 47 is a neutral stretch bringing Companion and Noble Authority, making it easier to protect and consolidate the place you have built. Where you stand now is the final stretch of a period in which the Wood of your Support Element opens the way while competition comes attached. Spend the year that remains digging the channel for the next decade’s Water ahead of time.

Let me set the INFJ you have shared beside the nature of your saju. This is something you said yourself in an interview on November 22, 2023, though, so I will not use it to bind the you of 2026. There are two axes on which the two lenses point the same way. On the Introversion–Extraversion axis, your saju leans clearly toward Introversion, and the two calculations agree. The shyness with strangers you have described and your saju look in the same direction, so this is a quality you can trust and use. On the Judging–Perceiving axis, the Ten Stars calculation alone points toward Judging, the same direction as your J. It also connects with the planning and responsibility that a Noble Authority Structure shows.

On the remaining two axes, the lenses part ways. On the Sensing–Intuition axis, both calculations in your saju lean clearly toward Sensing. That differs from the Intuition you reported. I read this as two standards looking at different sides of you. If the precision with which you match every movement and pitch on stage is the side your saju sees, the inner quality that calls melodies to mind may be the side you see in yourself. On the Thinking–Feeling axis, your saju points toward Thinking, but the Five Elements distribution and the Ten Stars calculation disagree, so it leans only very slightly that way. It is therefore no grounds for overturning the emotional nature you have described. Which of these is the real you is not something this comparison can decide.

Here is how to use your Vital Element in an INFJ way. First, refine on your own the melodies that come to you on quiet nights alone, then let one person you trust hear them, sending the Water out into the world. You need not force yourself to change the way things pool inside you for a long time. You only need to settle on one door through which they go out. In the coming Water Goat Decade Luck, the Water of the Creative rises to the surface, and that door will grow noticeably wider.

The painter in Lisbon never did take on a great altarpiece under his own name. Yet the harbor merchants who remembered the faces he painted came one by one to the workshop’s back door to ask for small portraits. The Peach Blossom in his day branch held people’s eyes, but in his age the only channel for making his skill known was the workshop master’s name. Today you hold the same seat, and you were born into an age in which you can send work bearing your own name straight into the world through three languages and song. The name that man longed to place in the corner of a painting, you can leave as a single line in a song’s credits.

First, work and money. Make it your goal to release one of the melodies you have written as a finished work bearing your own name within the Fire Goat year of 2027. If you cut the first channel in a supportive year, the Creative of the Water Goat Decade Luck will flow along it.

Second, people and relationships. People who think deeply and move by intuition, the Philosopher, Artist and Advisor types, are the connections that bring Water to this chart. During the two months left this year, set up one regular meeting with someone you can share creative work with, such as a composer or lyricist. This is a year with a Six Harm marker, so the closer the relationship, the better it is to settle hurt feelings in words that same day.

Third, body, mind and the place you stay. Within this year, choose one corner of the room where you work as a quiet spot on the north side, and keep it, with the lights dimmed, for melody work at night alone. Place a small glass object in black or deep blue there, and whenever it catches your eye before sleep, it will become a signal to set down the day’s thoughts.

Fourth, preparing for the coming Decade Luck. Before the Water Goat Decade Luck opens around October 2027, write down in advance the principles you will hold to in the years when Earth and competition overlap, such as 2028 and 2029, and 2030 and 2031. In those years, protect rather than expand, and gather your strength for the good years between 2032 and 2034.

A talisman, you could say, is a token that takes the will of heaven from empty air, inscribes it in ink and places it in your hand. Yours is a talisman of Water that washes and clears. It is not Water that cuts the hard jewel, but Water that washes away the dust of Earth so the jewel’s own light can show. Those who carry it and live the year trusting in it find their gaze changing, their gaze changes their choices, and their choices change their fate. Yet do not forget that it is not the talisman that makes the path, but you who walk it.

In the autumn of the Fire Goat year of 2027, the first Decade Luck to bring you visible Water will open. Before you cross that threshold, try sending one melody of your own out into the world. Once that year has passed, come back and tell me what you released and which path you chose. May the sound of clear water, rather than the dry earth of late autumn, stay by your side.