Hongjoong's SajuA General in a Poet's Robe (Earth Horse)K-POP · November 7, 1998

Three mountains stand in your chart. Yang Earth sits side by side in your year stem, your day stem and your hour stem, and beneath them the Tiger Wood, the Dog Earth and the two Horse Fires are bound into the Tiger-Horse-Dog Fire Bureau, a single mass of flame. On the outside it is a mountain range that holds its ground with weight, but inside it is a furnace that never stops boiling. Yet the metal that could carve this hot mountain into use shows nowhere on the surface. Metal hides only as one sliver of Yin Metal deep inside the Dog Earth of your month branch, so you may take it that your whole life is built around drawing that hidden metal out and putting it to use.

Around the reign of King Jeongjo, inside the walled town of Jeju, I knew the keeper of an apothecary. Like you, he was born on an Earth Horse day, a man who carried a keen-edged Sheep Blade in his day branch. It was a time when islanders were barred from crossing to the mainland, so medicinal herbs came in only when a ship reached the harbor, and it is said that he would send back on the spot any load mixed with spoiled herbs, however cheap the price. That stubbornness made the name of his shop, yet the prescriptions he refined with his own hands never once crossed beyond the island.

Earth Horse — A General in a Poet's Robe

You are someone who breathes freely only when you lay out the board with your own hands, rather than standing in a place others have set for you. The Dog Earth of your birth month is the same earth as your Yang Earth Day Master, so yours is a Companion Structure, and Yang Earth is driven in as a root inside the Tiger Wood and the Dog Earth, while Yin Earth, the same earth again, takes root inside the two Horse Fires. Even the fire of all four branches warms your Day Master, so the chart as a whole stands strong. The Earth Horse Day Pillar is broad ground warmed by the sun, with a warmth that gathers people, and with the General Star seated in your day branch and your hour branch, standing at the front of a group is not something handed to you but something you were born with.

It is said that when you look after your mischievous younger members and things do not go your way, you cut it off flat, and they tease you as a ‘tyrant’ for it. That edge was not newly forged by the leader’s seat. The Sheep Blade and the Needle Star sit together in your day branch, so quick decisions and words that draw the line in one stroke were standing inside you from the start. The seat of captain only gave you more occasions to draw that edge. On the other side, the carelessness of tending others so lovingly while you keep losing your own phone and earphones comes from the Nurturer in the Horse Fire of your day branch and hour branch. It is a seat brimming with the energy of embracing, so the people beside you keep ending up taking care of you.

The Academy Noble in your year branch is a seat that leans toward learning and mastering, and it ties in with the persistence by which you held on to English, which you could not speak at your debut, until you could carry interviews with foreign media. In a November 2026 fashion magazine cover interview, you said that on that day you shot so comfortably that it felt fine to set the captain’s armband down. That you need a separate day to set the armband down shows that on ordinary days you always wear its weight.

This chart is a heavy mountain overflowing with earth, so its energy clears only when some of that earth is taken away, shaped into something and sent out. The element that earth gives birth to is metal, and for you metal is the seat of the Expression stars, the ones that make and express. Yet that very metal hides, of all places, as the Performer in Yin Metal inside the Dog Earth of your month branch, the seat of the workplace and of one’s calling, and in the same month branch sits the Canopy Star, which gains strength when you immerse yourself alone. It means that shutting yourself in the studio alone to refine songs is buried right in the seat of your livelihood. The story that you rarely make it back to the dorm because of work, and the record of more than one hundred eighty songs registered under your name, both came out of that seat.

The work that suits you divides into three. Composing and producing, writing and refining songs, is the road of drawing out the hidden Performer in Yin Metal just as it is, and arranging and the fine work of carving sound is ‘the work of dividing and measuring’ that metal does, so it is the road that uses your Vital Element most gently. And with the General Star holding up your Companion Structure, the seat of overall production, binding many people’s work in one direction, suits you well too. As a vessel, you are not someone to be buried inside an organization but someone who must sit in an independent seat, standing within the team while putting out work under your own name.

The place where you get stuck comes from an excess of Resource stars. The embrace of fire is so thick that thoughts and feelings keep piling up inside, and when the outlet to let them out is cut off, that heat bursts out as sharp-edged words. So know that the moment your making hands go still is the very moment you turn harsh. The years when metal and water come in and work goes more easily are the Metal Pig year of 2031 and the Water Ox year of 2033, while the Fire Goat year of 2027 is a year when its combinations let you breathe.

Your money comes straight from your talent. Metal gives birth to water, so it is a structure in which the songs you make come back to you as a stream called copyright. Only, the water that means wealth is just the one Yang Water in your month stem, and even that floats without a root, while three Yang Earths surround that single one. It is the picture of many earths trying to share one stream of water, which means the money that comes in does not easily pool for you alone but flows readily toward the people beside you. The story that, because you write so many songs and earn more in royalties, you deliberately spend more on your members is this very grain showing itself kindly.

A sharing heart is nothing to think less of. Only, this structure opens a leak when the lines between shares blur in work made together. The Earth Monkey year of 2028 and the Earth Rooster year of 2029 each bring in one more earth, years when competition and the splitting of shares grow, so in joint ventures or investments, unless each person’s share is settled first, money and people are easily hurt together. On the other hand, the Metal Pig year of 2031 brings metal and water side by side, a year when what you make is paid what it is worth, so it serves you better to time any big venture to around then.

Let me name one thing to do starting this month. Within November, for every song you have worked on with others and every collaboration ahead, write down on a single page who took on what and how it will be divided. If you keep sharing from the heart and sharing by a standard apart from each other, your generosity will last a long time.

For you, the energy that means a partner is water. That water shows in your month stem as Yang Water, so the bonds that draw you are lively people who come from the wide world, and your heart is easily stirred by someone met in an unfamiliar place. Only, that water has no root, so the seat to hold it and make it stay is thin. In the Horse Fire of your day branch, the spouse palace, sit the Nurturer that embraces and the Lonely Swan, which lengthens the time spent alone. It is not that you do not want a bond. You look after your work and your people first and always push your own heart’s place to the back, so you may take it that a bond settles in late.

The partner who puts you at ease carries the grain of metal and water. It is someone whose actions come before words, who knows how to sort things out coolly when you heat up. Your warmth truly comes alive not beside someone who stands up to you when the Sheep Blade of your day branch sharpens its edge, but beside someone who waits calmly and then touches only the heart of the matter.

Two years when bonds move stand out clearly. In the Fire Goat year of 2027, the year’s Goat Earth forms the Horse–Goat Combination with the Horse Fire of your day branch and hour branch, and the year’s Yin Fire forms the Yin Fire–Yang Water Combination with the Yang Water of your month stem, so the seat of a partner and the star of a partner are touched at once. In the Metal Pig year of 2031, Pig Water forms the Tiger–Pig Combination with the Tiger Wood of your year branch, and water, the energy of a partner, comes in. In the Water Rat year of 2032 the Rat–Horse Clash strikes your day branch head-on, so as much as a close tie moves greatly, it is a year to take special care with conversation. From today there is one thing to do. Once a week, pin an evening without work talk into your calendar first.

In this chart the fire is bound into one by the Tiger-Horse-Dog Fire Bureau, and the Horse Fire of your day branch and hour branch sits in the Peak stage, the strongest seat of all. So your energy always runs hot, and being late-autumn earth, it dries out easily as well. Your own words that your energy strangely rises when your body is in bad shape are rightly read as a sign that this heat covers over your fatigue. Not knowing you are tired, you end up running harder, so rest must be fixed in your schedule first, before your body tells you.

Your Climate Element is Water, so your way of tending life lies in cooling and moistening. At night, cut back on screens and lights to keep where you sleep cool, drink water often, and it is good to close each day, true to the nature of metal, with a time for sorting out and setting things down. Your habit of falling asleep anywhere and anytime is also this heat finding its own gap to rest, so it is nothing to blame. In an interview this autumn you are said to have spoken of setting down the burdens you had laid on yourself and beginning to spend time just for you, and that change is the finest tonic for this chart. If discomfort arises somewhere in your body, leave that judgment to a physician.

The key word for the Fire Horse year of 2026 is ‘cooling’. The year’s Yang Fire and Horse Fire are both Resource stars that warm you, and since your chart already holds two Horse Fires, the year’s Horse makes three, so the same character overlaps into Self-Punishment and the Tiger-Horse-Dog blaze glows hotter still. The hidden metal does not show on the surface, so the shield to hold back this heat is thin, and the year’s Yang Fire collides with the Yang Water of your month stem in the Yang Fire–Yang Water Clash, so even the stream of water is shaken. It is a year of fire stacked on fire, so caution leads the way.

In such a year, after the team’s new album promotions in February, in September you released a new song with the American singer-songwriter Bazzi and opened the board of solo collaboration. With the Wood Ox Decade Luck holding you up evenly, you widened the board without crumbling, but the heat stored up in a year of fire will still be lingering whole in your body and mind. The fair wind lay in the Decade Luck that held you up, and the headwind in the overlapping fire.

On November 7 you turned twenty-eight. The rest of November, until December 7, is a month to guard and tidy up, so use it to bring this year’s ventures to a close. December, which begins on December 7, brings metal and water together and is the clearest month of your year, so if you settle the direction of next year’s work then, it will take less strength.

The Wood Rat Decade Luck from ages eleven to twenty was ten years in which the pressure of Yang Wood and the water of Rat Water came in together. While discipline pressed down on you, water cooled that heat, and so it was then that the persistence grew in you to send songs to a company that held no auditions and wait a whole year until you became its first trainee. The Earth Dog year of 2018, when you debuted, piled on one more earth, a year when you had to vie for your own place among many, and that year the only months bearing metal were August and September, so it was no easy start.

Now you are in the Wood Ox Decade Luck, which began at twenty-one and runs until November 7, 2029. Yin Wood in the stem is Noble Authority, which means responsibility and position, so the weight of captain belongs to this Decade Luck, and Ox Earth in the branch is winter earth that adds to the competition of earth. It is an even ten years in which help and burden are about the same. In an April 2022 interview you said that after the U.S. tour you had found the ease to look for what you could enjoy more and do well at your present age. In the Wood Dragon year of 2024, the year’s Dragon Earth met the Dog Earth of your month branch in the Dragon–Dog Clash. It is a year when the workplace and the ground of daily life shake, so one changes place or reshapes the board of the work at hand, and that year your stage widening greatly across the sea rode on that very current. Within this Decade Luck the years to be careful of are this year, the Fire Horse year of 2026, and the Earth Monkey year of 2028, while the Fire Goat year of 2027 between them lets you breathe.

The Fire Tiger Decade Luck that begins at thirty-one, from November 7, 2029 until November 7, 2039, brings in the Mystic in Yang Fire and Fierce Authority in Tiger Wood and heats the Fire Bureau of your chart further, so it is a stretch where help and caution come together. Within it, the Metal Pig year of 2031 and the Water Ox year of 2033 are years to push forward, and the Wood Tiger year of 2034 is a year to hold your ground as fire gathers again. The Water Rat year of 2032 brings ample water, but the Rat–Horse Clash strikes your day branch, so chance and upheaval arrive together. The Fire Rabbit Decade Luck that begins at forty-one is also a mixed stretch where fire and wood come in, calling for the same measured pace, and only in the Metal Horse Decade Luck at seventy-one does metal stand in the stem for the first time, when making will come most lightly of all. The three years left in the present Wood Ox Decade Luck are the time to set firm a way of working that can bear the heat of the next ten years.

Let me set the INFP you have shared beside your saju. On the E/I axis the two calculations disagree and read only as a weak lean toward extraversion, the side opposite the introversion you chose. It is the face of the General Star that dances biggest on stage and the alone time in the studio drawn out by the Canopy Star of your month branch, both living in one person. On the S/N axis, too, the two calculations disagree and lean only weakly toward sensing, the side opposite you who put intuition first. You may take it that the practical sense of Dynamic Wealth, which seizes the chance before your eyes, works to bring your imagination down to earth.

On the T/F axis the two calculations likewise disagree, reading only as a weak lean toward thinking, so it parts from your own sense that you lead with feeling. The heart quick to tears at stories of family and the cold decisions handed down by the Sheep Blade in your day branch move separately. In a June 2025 interview you called yourself a worrier by nature, and that worry belongs to someone who holds heart and judgment at once between two axes. On the J/P axis, a single Ten Gods calculation points toward perceiving and stands on the same side as your INFP, so your way of working, rolling things along while leaving them open rather than keeping to a set frame, is a strength you can trust and use.

There is one way for an INFP to use metal. Let your feelings flow and stay open, but for every song set yourself just one deadline that says ‘here it closes.’ The blade that brings things to an end is metal’s work, so each time you keep a deadline, your feeling does not scatter but takes form as finished work.

That apothecary keeper of Jeju guarded a single shop with his keen-edged stubbornness, sending back spoiled herbs, yet his prescriptions never did cross the sea. It was a time when both the road for herbs to come in and the road for prescriptions to go out were shut beyond the island, so the edge of the Sheep Blade could only stop before that door. You, who carry the same edge, sing a single song over more than thirteen hundred times today to carve its sound, and a song refined that way crosses beyond the sea overnight. You were born into a world where the edge that man spent entirely on guarding can be spent on making and sending out. The place where that edge is most precious is not in words that cut others but in the judgment that settles the last fine touch of your own work.

First, in work and money, set the board in the Fire Goat year of 2027. Set the direction of the work you will release under your own name that year, and before the Earth Monkey year of 2028 you must fix in writing the standard for shares with those you work with.

Second, in people, keep beside you those whose action comes before their words. Work talk shared with those who design and keep deadlines, with technicians who handle sound with precision, wakes your metal, so from this December, carve a song together with someone like that at least once.

Third, for body and mind, start by changing the light in your studio. Within this year, put one cool white light in your workspace, and make switching it on in the evening the signal that closes the day’s work. Setting your phone background to white and gold will also become a mark of ‘setting things down.’

Fourth, before the Fire Tiger Decade Luck that begins at thirty-one, complete a way of working that cools as it goes. If you let the balance of work and rest settle into your body before November 2029, even a hotter decade will not split your earth apart.

A talisman is the energy of heaven pressed down with ink and seated in this world, and luck changes as the gaze and choices of the one who trusts it and lives out the year change. The talisman that suits you is a single deadline that takes after the nature of metal, and the one who opens the road is you yourself, walking on while keeping that deadline.

The Fire Goat year of 2027 is a year when your partner’s seat and your star of wealth move together. In that year, come and tell me how you settled the shares with those you work with, and in which song you first left open space instead of an edge. Upon your mountain, now that you have turned twenty-eight, may a cool evening breeze linger in place of the heat.