Jake's SajuA Lamp of Early Winter That Stays Lit Though Surrounded by Water (Fire Pig)K-POP · November 15, 2002

You are a lamp that learned, first of all, how not to go out in the middle of an early winter brimming with water. A Yin Fire Day Master was born in the month of Pig Water, and even the seat right beside you rests on water. It means the energy of responsibility and rules surrounds you on every side. Yet that water does not only put you out. Yang Wood hides deep inside the Pig Water, so a road runs within you where water feeds the wood and the wood kindles the fire again. People see your kindness first. But that kindness is not a soft temper. It is the way you hold your place on cold water. Only, that firewood has not yet come to the surface, and filling that empty place is the work this chart will do for a lifetime.

In Jingdezhen in the Wanli years, in alleys where kiln smoke covered the sky, I saw a gold and silver smith. He held the same Fire Pig Day Pillar as you, and his was a chart weighed down by commissions handed down from above. His skill at delivering the gold and silver fittings for imperial kiln wares on deadline and without a flaw was more trustworthy than anyone’s. But the officials who collected the mining tax held the roads of gold and silver in their grip, so his raw material always reached his workshop only after passing through other hands.

Fire Pig — A Lamp of Early Winter That Stays Lit Though Surrounded by Water

The Fire Pig Day Pillar is often called a lighthouse on the sea. In your chart, that lamp joins hands with the Yang Water of your year stem in the Fire-Water stem harmony. So yours became a grain that does not push responsibility away as a burden but holds it close like a part of your own body. Your structure is the Noble Authority Structure. Yang Water stands revealed in your year stem and its root is driven firmly into the Pig Water of your month branch, so it is a structure that earns its place through principle and trust. It is known that when you come back to the dorm you do not sit down on the sofa but go straight to wash and get ready for bed, and that every morning you still take the supplements your father used to look after for you as a child. That is the Noble Authority Structure become second nature.

Across your whole natal chart, your Day Master is weak. You were born in the month of winter water and did not gain the strength of the season, and even your day branch, the seat beside you, is water, so it cannot hold the Day Master up. Instead, the same Yin Fire sits right inside the Horse Fire of your year branch and has become a firm root, and with the Prime Fortune attached there, a seat has formed where you stand on your own strength. The Yang Wood hidden inside the Pig Water of your month and day branches also feeds your fire from behind. This is a different thing from the Day Master’s root. It is a power that nurtures. It means yours is not a fire that is strong on its own, but a fire that grows firm when something holds it up. The story that you play the mom of the team and treat each member in a different way comes from the nature of Yin Fire, which warms itself as it warms others. The Heavenly Noble and the Fortune Noble sit side by side in your month and day branches, so the people who help you from close by will never run short.

Your timid side comes from another seat. The Ghost Gate Star falls across your year, month and day branches, and the Pig Water of your month and day branches forms the Pig-Pig Self-Punishment, so yours is a grain where thoughts burrow inward and rewind the same worry again and again. It is only natural that a small fire turns careful under the pressure of water. Your fear of bugs and your feeling that people are scarier than ghosts are a wariness that studies the unfamiliar for a long time, not a flaw. The Needle Star in your year branch and month stem is the needle that turns that wariness into precision, and the judging grain of the ISTJ you have shared points to the same place as the Noble Authority Structure.

You are someone who works by doing your share precisely within a set frame. Noble Authority takes charge of system and responsibility, and the Yin Metal of Dynamic Wealth revealed in your month stem adds a sense of reality and practical skill. That you are the one who decides the menu and places the order for the team is that sense showing in daily life. Yet the stars of expression, that is, the energy of earth, are nowhere on the surface. That earth hides only underground, as the Yin Earth inside the Horse Fire of your year branch and the Yang Earth inside the Pig Water. So your talent does not burst out all at once. It shows as it builds, little by little. After only nine short months of training, you grew more than anyone with each episode of I-LAND, starting with the “Tamed-Dashed” promotions you took on the title-track choruses, and your voice became widely known through the opening and the highlight of “Polaroid Love.” All of these were roads made by this grain of building up.

I see three roads that suit you. The first is vocals. Fire, your Support Element, governs the voice and being seen, so singing on stage puts your strength to use directly. The second is lyric writing and producing. Wood, your Vital Element, is the energy of learning and growing, so the path that ran from writing lyrics for “SHOUT OUT” in 2022 and “Highway 1009” in 2024 to producing “The Beginning” and “Sleep Tight” in January 2026 is the textbook way to carry your Vital Element into your work. The third is a seat where you teach and lead those who come after you. When the principle of Noble Authority meets the learning of the hidden Yang Wood, it becomes teaching. If you had to choose between employee and entrepreneur, this chart leans heavily toward the organization. Yet simply belonging will not satisfy you. An independent seat inside the organization, where you take on your own songs and your own share, suits you best.

Where you get blocked is clear too. With a weak Day Master and the heavy water of the Authority stars, the trap of this chart is shouldering every responsibility alone until your energy runs dry. In the Water Ox luck cycle you are passing through now, the Yin Water above adds to that pressure, and the Ox Earth below opens an outlet for expression. It means a time of proving your skill even while pressed down. Once you enter the Wood Tiger luck cycle around November 2029, wood, your Vital Element, comes in and a door opens to grow your own body of work. Before then, you need to practice setting down, among the work you carry, the shares you do not have to bear alone.

The foundation of your money comes from Noble Authority. Steady income, settled as promised within an organization, is the pillar of this chart. The Yin Metal of Dynamic Wealth in your month stem is the seat where money and chances of the bigger flow come and go, and as it happens, that metal is your Avoid Element. It is also the passage that wounds the hidden Yang Wood and swells the pressure of water. It means a structure in which the bigger the money that comes in, the more care it demands. The Robbery Star sits in your month and day branches, so the promises and ownership that pass between those close to you should be made clear in writing from the start.

As for timing, 2027, the Fire Goat year, flows in your favor as a year in itself. The years that follow, 2028, the Earth Monkey year, and 2029, the Earth Rooster year, bring metal, your Avoid Element. Taken alone they are ordinary years, but laid over your current luck cycle they lean toward caution, so it will serve you to hold big contracts and reckless investment or expansion until those two years have passed. The time when your wealth truly stands is 2034, the Wood Tiger year, and 2035, the Wood Rabbit year, inside the Wood Tiger luck cycle. In those years your Vital Element arrives twice over, so the works and the name you have built up will readily turn into real returns. In between, 2032, the Water Rat year, shakes you hard, so scale back what you have spread out and decide first what to keep.

Let me also touch on how you handle money. Kind Yin Fire is generous in spending, and Noble Authority easily leans toward leaving the accounts to someone it trusts. Trust itself is good, but if you do not look in after entrusting, there is a risk that wealth leaks out through that gap. The lyrics you wrote and the songs you made are assets that gain value as time goes on, so that flow, at least, you must follow with your own eyes.

Here is what to do starting this month. On a single page, write down yourself the lyric and production credits you have put your name to so far, along with their settlement records, and add any new items once a month.

In your chart, the star that signifies a partner is metal. That metal shows on the surface as the Yin Metal of Dynamic Wealth in your month stem. The people you are drawn to will have a vivid sense of things, a lively spirit and a way of bringing change into your life. Your eye easily goes to someone who shines like a clear silver bowl. Yet this metal is also your Avoid Element, so it is good to know that this is a structure where attraction and wear arrive together. It means the people who draw you and the people who stay easy to be with over time are not always the same, and the standard that tells them apart must be set first on your side.

In your day branch, the seat of your partner, lies the Pig Water of Noble Authority. It is a seat that wants an upright, responsible relationship. The Heavenly Noble and the Fortune Noble sit together in that seat, so your partner is likely to become a helper at your side. Yet the Ghost Gate Star falls on that same day branch, and the Pig-Pig Self-Punishment overlaps it, so a habit of chewing on hurt feelings alone instead of putting them into words runs deep in you. Given the hidden pull that flows between the Horse Fire of your year branch and the Pig Water of your day branch, a bond that deepens slowly with someone you have known a long time suits you best.

As for when the luck of bonds moves, in 2034, the Wood Tiger year, the year’s Tiger Wood forms the Tiger-Pig harmony with the Pig Water of your day branch. It is a year when someone of like heart enters the seat of your partner, so it stands out as a good year for a bond to deepen. Before that, in 2027, the Fire Goat year, Goat Earth forms the Horse-Goat harmony with the Horse Fire of your year branch and warms the seat of your social ties, so it will be a year to enjoy the warmth between people to the full.

Starting today, there is one thing to do. Whether it is gratitude or hurt, bring it out in a single line of words within the same day. Cutting down the time you spend chewing on things alone is the surest way, in this chart, to keep a bond.

You are a lamp standing in a winter brimming with water, so your energy easily sinks in the cold season. Especially in November and December, when the energy of water arrives again and again, your body is apt to feel heavy and drawn in. In a chart whose Support Element is fire, a life that warms the body is itself the way to fill your energy. Opening the day with a warm broth, and on days when a cold wind blows, keeping your neck and feet covered so the warmth reaches all the way down, is how to keep your body well.

In a chart where the Ghost Gate Star and the Pig-Pig Self-Punishment overlap, thoughts easily follow you all the way to bed. The more tightly packed your schedule runs, the less your mind can rest, and your sleep may grow shallow. Give rest its own place on your schedule as well. Yours is a body that grew up kicking a ball from childhood, so time spent moving and sweating works best to rekindle the fire inside you.

Wood, your Vital Element, stands for morning and the energy of new growth. A short time loosening up your body in the morning sun, or a walk where green is in view, is a better rest for you than anything else. But this speaks only of the grain of daily life, so if your body or mind stays heavy for long, be sure to see a doctor and have it looked at.

2026, the Fire Horse year, is a year when fire arrives. It is a year of your Support Element, so taken by itself, help comes first. Yet right now the water of the Water Ox luck cycle lies spread beneath your feet, so set the two side by side and the year’s force flattens. If the year’s fire is a tailwind, the luck cycle’s water is a headwind. If I were to sum up this year in a single word, it would be your own name.

This year, the empty seat in your year branch is filled. Horse Fire was the Void of this chart, a seat left empty, and with the same Horse Fire arriving as the year’s branch, that gap is filled. The seat that stands for your upbringing and social ties fills up. In January 2026, on the threshold of the Fire Horse year, the two songs that first carried your name as producer, and the scene that same month of singing in your own voice on a variety show stage, announced this flow ahead of time. Meanwhile, the year’s Yang Fire binds with the Yin Metal of your month stem in the Fire-Metal stem harmony, tying up the seat of money and chances. Chances will come, but what they actually turn into depends on conditions, so rather than rushing to lock in the offers that arrive, it is better to look them over once more.

Let me also mark the two months left. November is a month to guard and watch, so simply carry on calmly with what you have been doing. December, especially from around the 7th, is a month when metal and water arrive together, so you must cut back and hold on. It is a time when year-end stages crowd in, so put off new promises and big decisions until the new year, and guard your body’s warmth first. Keep in mind too that wood, your Vital Element, does not show on the surface of your natal chart, so the shield that would protect you at a hard turn is thin.

The past Water Rat luck cycle ran from around November 2009, when you were seven, to around November 2019. It was a stretch of caution, with the water of the Authority stars pouring down again and again. Within it, in 2010, the Metal Tiger year, Tiger Wood formed the Tiger-Pig harmony with the Pig Water of your month and day branches. It was a year when something new entered the seats of your workplace and your living ground, so it was surely no accident that you moved your life across the sea to Australia that year. Those years of growing up inside an unfamiliar language, until English became the more comfortable tongue, were a time that grew your strength to adapt under the pressure of water. Finding your dream after seeing one stage in 2017, and breaking through a five-hundred-to-one audition in 2019, as the luck cycle was drawing to a close, was the moment the fire that had endured that pressure first found its own road. If you ask where to put down roots between two countries, your root lies not in a land but in the Prime Fortune of the Horse Fire in your year branch, that is, the seat where you stand on your own strength. Because that seat was empty, yours was a grain that drifted without being tied to one place, but this year that seat has begun to fill.

Now you stand in the Water Ox luck cycle that began when you were 17, the stretch from around November 2019 to around November 2029. It is a decade where caution leads. The Yin Water above presses on you as Fierce Authority, and the Ox Earth below opens a breathing hole as the Creative. That your debut and your growth both came in this stretch is the very nature of a luck cycle in which you prove yourself even while pressed down. 2027, the Fire Goat year, is favorable as a year in itself, but the Ox-Goat Clash and the Fire-Water stem clash with your luck cycle overlap in it, so decisions are easily overturned. 2028 and 2029 are years when metal arrives, and laid over your luck cycle they lean toward caution, so in these three years, put your strength into building up rather than spreading out.

The next Wood Tiger luck cycle runs from age 27, from around November 2029 to around November 2039. It is a fortunate decade when wood, your Vital Element, enters as the Nurturer, the time when the firewood that lay hidden finally comes to the surface. Yet even within it, 2031, the Metal Pig year, 2032, the Water Rat year, and 2033, the Water Ox year, are years of caution one after another. Especially in 2032, the year’s Rat Water forms the Rat-Horse Clash with the Horse Fire of your year branch and shakes you hard, so for those three years, decide first what to keep. By 2034, the Wood Tiger year, and 2035, the Wood Rabbit year, this luck cycle reaches its peak. The Wood Rabbit luck cycle that follows, from 37 to around November 2049, is also a fortunate stretch, with the wood of the Mystic arriving, a time to take in deeply and refine what you built in the Wood Tiger luck cycle. The more distant Fire Dragon luck cycle is a stretch where help and caution mix, so at that time it will go easier to spend your strength on carrying on rather than widening. But for now you are in the second half of the Water Ox luck cycle, so quietly stacking the firewood to burn in the coming spring is your work.

Let me set the ISTJ you have shared beside your saju. First, the axis of extraversion and introversion is where the two lenses part. Your saju points toward extraversion, but the two calculations disagree, so it stops at a faint lean. Your experience of going back and forth between ISTJ and ESTJ each time you took the test is exactly the shape of this axis. Yin Fire, which warms people, faces outward, but the Ghost Gate Star and the pressure of water draw that fire back inward. This is why the you on stage and the you who quietly closes the day in the dorm live together in one person.

The other three axes point the same way. On sensing, the two calculations disagree and the lean is faint, but Dynamic Wealth, which handles tangible practical work and a sense of reality, backs that direction. Thinking is also a faint lean, but on the same side. Even beneath a kind nature, your judgment follows reason. Judging is a direction read from a single Ten Gods calculation, but for you, with the Noble Authority Structure second nature, it is the strength you can trust and use the most. Your habit of keeping the promises you make to yourself comes from this axis.

Here is how to use wood, your Vital Element, the ISTJ way. Do not leave learning to your mood. Put it on a set timetable. For example, study composition once a week on the same day at the same hour, and keep a record of the pieces you made that day. Once you enter the Wood Tiger luck cycle, those records will come back to you as songs under your name.

That gold and silver smith of Jingdezhen never found, in the end, a way to choose his raw material with his own hands, nor a channel to make his skill known to the world. He worked his whole life between the deadlines of the imperial kilns and silver that had passed through officials’ hands, and he ended his days under someone else’s mark without leaving behind a single piece engraved with his own name. The seat of Noble Authority, which took the weight from above with diligence, served him only in erasing his name. But does today’s world not attach a name tag called a credit to that same seat? Your name, set into lyrics and production, is exactly the mark that smith never had.

First, work and money. Within 2027, the Fire Goat year, which favors you as a year in itself, build up a body of songs written under your name, and settle into the habit of checking your settlements and rights yourself.

Second, people and relationships. Being near people who keep learning and pursue growth, people like a teacher who shows you the way, fills your Vital Element. Within 2027, make at least one occasion to visit the studios of composers and producers and write songs together.

Third, body, mind and the place you stay. Before this December arrives, move your workspace to an east-facing window where the morning sun comes in, and keep plants and books beside you. Make it your signal, in the first few minutes of each morning, to look at the green of your phone’s wallpaper and call to mind one thing you will learn that day.

Fourth, preparing for the luck cycle to come. Starting around November 2029, when you enter the Wood Tiger luck cycle, and within 2030, the Metal Dog year, at the latest, before the three straight years of caution that begin in 2031 arrive, put your contracts and rights in clean order.

More to be trusted than a talisman in your pocket is a single tree you tend every day, and what sets that tree alight is your voice.

2027, the Fire Goat year, stands on your side as a year in itself, but it is also a year that collides with your luck cycle, so decisions are easily overturned. Before the big choices of that year, keep one hand ready to hold off once more and check. Once you have crossed that year, I will open this chart again to see what songs you left and what road you chose.