Imada Mio's SajuThe Early Spring Sun, Holding Its Light in Works That Last (Fire Horse)J-Drama · March 5, 1997

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The midday sun has taken its own seat, yet this is a chart short of the ground to receive that sunlight. Born a Yang Fire in the Tiger month of early spring, you sit upon the Horse Fire of your day branch and stand like the sun at the hottest hour of the day, and the Yin Fire seated on the pillar of your birth year adds its flame at your side. The world will remember you as a brightly shining face, but what this chart truly thirsts for is not light. It is earth that receives that light and hardens it into something that lasts, and the wide water in which the sun can see its own face. Light already overflows, so your life turns on where you hold that light.

In the reign of Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song, in the port of Quanzhou, crowded with sea merchants, there lived a painter who had the same Fire Horse Day Pillar as you. He had the eye of the Mystic, which caught the slant of the light on the water that others let slip past, so the morning sea he painted on his fans stopped the steps of all who saw it. Yet the great patrons who could pay for his paintings and the imperial painting academy that could make his skill known were far away in Lin’an, so each year he sent a few paintings aboard the merchant ships and waited for word. Where those paintings reached, I will tell you later.

Fire Horse — The Early Spring Sun, Holding Its Light in Works That Last

You are a Fire Horse Day Pillar, a Day Pillar in which the midday sun sits in its own house. The Horse Fire of your day branch is the Peak stage, the seat where Yang Fire is at its most powerful, and the Tiger Wood of your birth month is the Birth stage, the seat that lifts up a sun that has just gained strength. The Tiger Wood feeds your fire, you are rooted in the Yang Fire inside that Tiger Wood and in the Horse Fire of your day branch, and the Yin Fire of your year stem stands guard beside you, so this chart has a clearly strong Day Master.

So you are someone who stands by your own strength even when no one pushes you forward, and once you have decided on something, a grain of not stepping back easily is in your very bones. The Sheep Blade in your day branch has put one more edge on that grain, so your decisions are quick, but when that edge turns inward you easily become the person strictest of all with yourself. The Needle Star in your day branch points the same way. It means you have an eye that sees even the small flaws others miss, and a habit of turning that eye on yourself first.

This chart is a Mystic Structure. The original energy of the Tiger Wood in your birth month is Yang Wood, the Mystic, so your foundation is a grain that takes in the world from an unusual angle and digests it deeply on its own. Your well-known pursuits, earning a Chinese proficiency certificate and never letting a novel out of your hands, touch this grain exactly, and the Academy Noble in your month branch lights up again and again the seat of learning and mastering. Only, because your power to take in is great, this is a structure that can breathe freely only when an outlet for putting it out stands alongside it.

Let me also mark the tension at your side. The Yang Water of your month stem, the Fierce Authority, stands face to face with your Yang Fire Day Master in the Yang Fire–Yang Water Clash, so the eyes of the world and its responsibilities always stand right in front of you. But the Yin Fire of your year stem holds that Yang Water in the Yin Fire–Yang Water Combination, so the water that would reflect you is close at hand, yet not wholly yours. The Monthly Virtue Star sitting on your Day Master and the Heavenly Virtue Star on your year stem are seats that carry this tension across into trust, so you have a grain in which the more rightly you carry yourself, the smaller the great troubles become as they pass.

The way you work is to take things in deeply first, digest them alone, then push forward on your own strength. The Mystic takes in and the overflowing fire pushes upward, so in this chart acting is the work of putting out what you have taken in through the seat of earth, that is, the outlet of the Expression stars. If I name three roads that suit this chart, they are these. The first is long-breathed work in which you live one character for a long time. Earth is an energy that quietly digs one well, so living one person for more than half a year as the lead of a morning serial drama was exactly this grain put to use. The second is work from other countries that makes use of your languages, a road held up by the Academy Noble. The third, in time, is the seat of planning, choosing and shaping works, a road on which the uncommon eye of the Mystic leads on to results.

If I divide between an employee and a business owner, you are a vessel that keeps your body within a large organization yet stands under your own name. Your Companion stars are strong, so it is hard for you to stay buried under someone else’s name, but metal, the star of wealth, does not show, so the road of the business owner who shoulders the household and the books alone is not yours. The Fortune Noble in your month branch is a seat for building trust with the people you can ask for help, so it is no accident that the one who reached out after seeing a single poster at Kokura Station became the home base you stand on now.

The place where you get stuck is clear. When the Mystic and fire are strong together, you easily keep taking things in and put off the time to put them out, or let your interest drift from one thing to another. The more you build up the experience of refining one work to the end and putting it out into the world, the firmer your vessel will grow. The time when results and reward truly connect is from the Earth Rooster year of 2029 to the Metal Pig year of 2031, when earth, metal and water come in by turns.

In this chart, metal, the star of wealth, shows neither in the stems nor in the branches, and only hides as a single Yin Metal inside the Ox Earth of your year branch. Fire, by contrast, fills every side, so it is a structure of Companions Contending for Wealth, in which many share a single source of wealth. It means a seat where even when money comes in, the fire beside you each takes its own share, and the amount left in your hand shrinks. So your money pools properly only on the road where your talent itself becomes money, the flow in which earth gives birth to metal.

In its flow, it is a grain in which a lot comes in and then easily leaks out to the sides. The Yin Fire of your year stem and the Horse Fire of your day branch are both the Rival, so the seats where money leaks through the people you work with, the requests of those around you and your own spending are plain to see. The Fire Horse year of 2026 and the Fire Goat year of 2027 are years with caution set on wealth and competition, and from the Earth Rooster year of 2029 to the Metal Pig year of 2031 is the time when what you have built up leads on to real gain.

Your defense must be laid where this chart leaks. For money you handle together, set the shares and the standard first, and it serves you better to put off once more any large deal you are drawn into by affection, or lending your name to someone else’s business. This is a chart in which the device for keeping money must stand before the skill of growing what you earn.

There is one thing to do starting this month. From November, set one share of the money that comes in from work that you will not touch, and set it apart. That share is your storehouse, which the fire beside you cannot covet.

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In a woman’s chart the star of a partner is the Authority star, and for you that is water. The Yang Water of your month stem, the Fierce Authority, shows in the stems, and Yin Water, the Noble Authority, hides inside the Ox Earth of your year branch, so this is a chart in which the star of a partner is clearly present. The one who draws you will likely be firm and know how to take responsibility, a person whose standards stand before their words.

Only, the way that star is placed is not easy. The Yang Water stands face to face with your Day Master in the Yang Fire–Yang Water Clash, so the closer you grow, the more easily your standards collide, and the Yin Fire of your year stem holds that water in the Yin Fire–Yang Water Combination, so it is a seat where your heart is easily bound first to work and to the people around you. On the Horse Fire of your day branch, the seat of your partner, sits your own fire, and the Sheep Blade and the Lonely Swan overlap there, so it is a grain in which you do not easily lay down your own standards even in the seat of a partner, and a bond settles in late. The Peach Blossom Star in your day branch and the Red Romance Star in your month branch are a power that draws people’s eyes, but the greater that power, the more you will have chosen instead to keep the door firmly locked.

The energy of bonds moves from the Metal Pig year of 2031 to the Water Ox year of 2033, when water comes in. 2031 is a year in which the star of a partner comes in and your Day Master is bound in the Yang Fire–Yin Metal Combination, so your heart easily leans to one place, and in the Water Rat year of 2032 the Rat–Horse Clash shakes the seat of your partner, so it is a year to put conversation before big decisions. In the Water Ox year of 2033 the Noble Authority comes in, but the Ox–Horse Resentment touches your day branch again, so a bond of that time is blessed when you firm it up without hurrying.

There is one thing to do starting today. Once a day, put into words for someone close to you one thing from your heart that is not about work. It is the easiest way to keep the edge of the Sheep Blade from turning only inward.

This chart overflows with fire and its dryness has reached the extreme, so your energy is a grain that heats up quickly and dries out quickly. The season of your birth is early spring, but heat has piled up layer upon layer in your natal chart, so May to July, when the sunlight grows fierce, is the time of the year when heat gathers most. If filming and schedules overlap in that season, you easily run on without knowing you are tired, and then lose your energy all at once.

The Ghost Gate Star across your year branch and day branch is a seat where thoughts burrow inward, so it is a grain in which sleep is the first to be shaken. The Scalding Fire Star hangs on the same two seats, so when the heat of your heart rises, you will likely have a habit of hurrying your work and driving it hard. Make it your body’s habit to shed the heat of your heart first, before your body sends its own signal.

The prescription for daily life is water and earth. On a day you finish a big schedule, set aside time to walk by the water or cool your body, and keeping a steady hour for falling asleep is, for you, the work of filling up the water of your Climate Element. Your well-known love of cooking is both rest and the energy of earth for you, so the busier the season, the more you should keep time to make even one meal with your own hands.

The key word for the Fire Horse year of 2026 is overheating. The Fire Horse, the same as your Day Pillar, came as the year’s luck, so it is a year in which fire is laid once more upon fire, and the Yin Wood and Snake Fire of your Wood Snake Decade Luck lend their help to the fire as well, so all year long your energy rose only upward. This year is one in which caution leads, a year to watch competition and the shares you carry with others.

A tailwind and a headwind blew together. The tailwind is presence. As the same fire overlaps, the power to stand in front grows, and the public record of a co-starring film and leads in two dramas following one after another this year is the shape of that energy. The headwind is that the year’s Yang Fire again forms the Yang Fire–Yang Water Clash with the Yang Water of your month stem, and the year’s Horse Fire is laid over the Scalding Fire Star between the Ox Earth of your year branch and the Horse Fire of your day branch. The water that reflected you was shaken once more, and it was a year in which built-up pressure in your heart easily rose all at once. The same Horse Fire overlapped your day branch, so stubbornness easily clashed, and it served you better to check each decision once more.

Let us look at the two months that remain. November is a month when Yin Earth comes in and the blocked outlet of earth opens a little, so it is not a bad time to sort out the year’s work and bind it into results. Only, it is not a month for spreading things out wide, so use it for finishing and sorting. December is a plain month, and Yang Metal, your Support Element, comes in, so if you divide the year’s shares and reckonings cleanly, next year will be lighter. Next year, the Fire Goat year of 2027, is also a year with caution set on wealth and competition, so carry this year’s standard straight on.

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The Wood Dragon Decade Luck from eleven to twenty, from around March 2008 to around March 2018, was a stretch that carried help and caution together. Dragon Earth, the Creative, came in and the outlet of earth opened for the first time, so it was the season when a child who had only taken things in began to put something out. The Water Snake year of 2013 was a year when the Noble Authority came in, and it overlaps the year you, at sixteen, were noticed on the streets of Tenjin and got your first work. It was the year the world first called you to a seat of your own. The following year, the Wood Horse year of 2014, was a year of overlapping fire, so your work grew, but the heat of your heart likely rose along with it.

The Wood Snake Decade Luck you stand in now is the ten years from twenty-one to thirty, from around March 2018 to around March 2028. Yin Wood, the Nurturer, and Snake Fire, the Companion, come in, so it is a Decade Luck in which your name grows and the power to stand in front takes hold, and the public record of making your name in a single stroke with Hana Nochi Hare: HanaDan Next Season in the first year of this Decade Luck overlaps that energy. Only, the energies that feed fire come in again and again, while the outlet of earth is not filled separately, so it is ten years in which help and caution are mixed in about equal weight. It was a stretch whose wear was as great as its shine.

Next is the Fire Horse Decade Luck that begins at thirty-one, from around March 2028 to around March 2038. The same stem and branch as your Day Pillar come as your Decade Luck, so it is ten years of standing face to face with yourself again, and the flow is plain, but the grain divides sharply from year to year within it. In the Earth Monkey year of 2028, Monkey Metal forms the Tiger–Monkey Clash with the Tiger Wood of your month branch, so it is a year when change easily comes to your workplace and your home base, but that clash strikes away wood, your Avoid Element, so you can use the change as a chance. From the Earth Rooster year of 2029 to the Metal Pig year of 2031 are good years in which earth, metal and water come in by turns, and in the Metal Dog year of 2030 in particular the Tiger–Horse–Dog Three Harmony is completed, so the fire gathers in one place and it is the year you shine most brightly. But the Water Rat year of 2032 is the year to be most careful of in these ten years. The Rat–Horse Clash strikes your day branch, and the Yang Fire of the Decade Luck and the Yang Water of the year stand against each other in the Yang Fire–Yang Water Clash, so you must cut back what you have spread out and decide first what to keep. The Water Ox year of 2033 and the Wood Tiger year of 2034 are years in which you can breathe freely again.

After that is the Fire Goat Decade Luck that begins at forty-one, from around March 2038 to around March 2048. Yin Fire, the Rival, and Goat Earth, the Performer, come in together, so it is a stretch in which help and caution are mixed, but Goat Earth forms the Horse–Goat Combination with the Horse Fire of your day branch, so it is the time when the overflowing heat at last begins to settle into earth. From fifty-one to eighty, the Earth Monkey, Earth Rooster and Metal Dog follow one after another, bringing in earth and metal, so a long flow awaits you in which gathering in and leaving behind what you have built becomes much easier. But what you must do now is to firm up the remaining years of the Wood Snake Decade Luck into a vessel that will hold up the next ten years.

That painter of Quanzhou never crossed the threshold of the imperial painting academy in the end. Yet merchants in faraway ports who saw the fans carried off on the merchant ships began to send people back to Quanzhou in search of those paintings, and late in life he opened a painting shop under his own name at the mouth of the harbor. The eye of the Mystic, which sees the light others miss, was precious even in that age, but the channels by which that eye could reach the world were only a few sea routes. Today that eye shines straight onto the wide water called the screen, and your path, on which a single poster on a station wall opened the main road, is exactly that difference. There is one thing you must do to bring that power to life. In the years of earth and metal that open from 2029, hold on to one work that will last, all the way to the end.

First, for work and money, take the Earth Rooster year of 2029 to the Metal Pig year of 2031 as the door through which results lead on to reward. Work in which you live one character for a long time, work in which your name will last, is the road that uses the Vital Element of this chart. Before that, within 2027, write down for yourself one line of the standard by which you will choose your works from now on.

Second, keep beside you people who keep their promises and show through actions rather than words. Relationships that quietly hold their place, like the production crews and staff you have long worked with, or the old friend with whom you spend the same day every year, fill you with the energy of earth. Before 2026 ends, put your thanks into words to one such person, and from 2031, when water comes in, open the door of your heart a little wider to new bonds.

Third, for body and mind, set May to July each year as your season for cooling down. Place one vessel shaped from clay at the center of the place where you stay, and let the moment you come home after the day’s work and look at that vessel be the end of your day. Yellow earth and brown are signs of holding your place, and the center of a home means the seat you always return to, so that vessel will be a signal to you each day to stand on the ground.

Fourth, the coming Fire Horse Decade Luck begins around March 2028, so before that, within 2027, set the home base of your work and the frame of your contracts clearly in order. And before 2031 draws to a close, tie off the things you have spread out once, so that you meet the clash of the Water Rat year of 2032 as a light load.

In the Earth Rooster year of 2029, the earth and metal that never showed in your chart come in together, and a year arrives in which your light for the first time earns its worth. Take note for yourself of which work you held on to all the way to the end that year, and what it remained as. On the day that story is revealed to the world, I will open this chart again and read the road you chose.