Jeon Somi's SajuThree Jewels That Polished Themselves to Shine in Mid-Spring (Metal Goat)K-POP · March 9, 2001

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Along the top line of your chart stand no fewer than three silver Yin Metals, side by side. Judge by the characters on the surface alone and it is hard to imagine a more self-assured confidence, yet the only root tying those three to the ground is a single Yang Metal hidden far off inside the Snake Fire of your year branch. You were born in mid-spring, when wood is gathering force, so metal has lost its season, and the water that would wash the jewel is nowhere to be seen in your chart. The bright light the world welcomes when it calls you its “vitamin” was not handed to you for free by the ground you were born on. You polished it yourself. The you that others see and the you your chart points to part ways right here.

When the Muromachi shogunate stood in Kyoto, I knew the mistress of a workshop that carved woodblocks to print the sutras and poems read by the Zen monks of the Five Mountains. She was the daughter of a block carver who had crossed the sea, born in a port before she came up to Kyoto, and she was born on a Metal Goat day like you, a chart with its root in a wandering seat. No one could match her hand, which set right even the slant of a single stroke. But the mountain cherry wood for carving the blocks, the paper, and the road by which a book reached its readers were all held by the great temples, and so for a long time the prints from her blocks bore the temple’s name instead of her own.

Metal Goat — Three Jewels That Polished Themselves to Shine in Mid-Spring

You are not someone who cannot bear to lose. You are someone who grows firm only after losing. The Metal Goat Day Pillar is often likened to dew on a summer meadow, but your Goat Earth is earth dried by the spring sun, and the small jewel set upon it is you. Two more Yin Metals stand as Companions in your year stem and month stem, so your wish to get things done with your own hands rather than lean on others runs very strong. Even so, across your whole natal chart, your Day Master is weak. You were born in spring, when Rabbit Wood holds the season, so metal lost its strength, and in your month branch it sits at Extinction, the stage where energy is cut off. Its root, too, is only the single Yang Metal inside the Snake Fire of your year branch. The Yin Earth in the Goat Earth of your day branch and the Yang Earth in the Snake Fire of your year branch do feed the metal as earth, but the spring wood contends for that earth, so they cannot hold you up in full.

The tender side behind your bright confidence comes from two places. One is the Mystic seated in your day branch. The Mystic is a keen sense that catches a grain others cannot see before anyone else, and it is also a habit of chewing over whatever you go through alone and digesting it alone. The other is the Needle Star. It is lodged evenly in your year stem, month stem, month branch, Day Master and day branch, so an eye that digs into fine detail like a needle runs through nearly all of your life. The stories that you hold out for polish even when it takes time, and that you see to your own styling, your music videos, even the tips of your nails, are what that needle looks like when it points outward. When it points inward, it becomes a whip that drives you hard. When your teary moment on a horror variety show became the talk of the town, people may have called it unexpected, but as I see it, that was simply the bare face of who you have always been.

In the Snake Fire of your year branch, the Traveling Horse and the Fortune Noble sit together. Your starting point, born in Windsor, Canada, and brought to Seoul at six months old to grow up, is carved into your chart as a wandering seat as well. What is striking is that the Yang Metal that is your Day Master’s only root hides inside this very same Snake Fire of your year branch. Your root is set not in the soil of one country but in the moving seat itself. So to the question of which country to set your heart on, your chart answers that you should root yourself not in a place but in people and relationships. The year pillar is the seat of upbringing and social ties, so for you, the colleagues who have walked with you for a long time and the promises you have kept for a long time become your ground. That you were cut at the last threshold of a debut survival show in 2015 and still stood at the very front in the next one was likely the Companion’s stubbornness, which grows firmer after losing, holding on to that root.

You are not one to play only the part handed to you in a game someone else has set up. You breathe freely only when you set up the game with your own hands. With three of the same metal standing together, your drive to work by your own standard and under your own name is great, and the Rabbit Wood of your month branch sits as Dynamic Wealth, giving you a sense for reading the flow of the market and its chances. That Rabbit Wood even forms the Rabbit-Goat half alliance of wood with the Goat Earth of your day branch, and because it holds the Rabbit, the cardinal branch, this half alliance carries real force and deepens your sense for wealth further. When the uncommon intuition of the Mystic in your day branch is joined by the precision of the Needle Star, it becomes the grain of a craftswoman who is not satisfied until whatever she makes is polished to the very last touch. That you put songs you wrote yourself on your records from your debut album onward, and put your name to most of your solo songs as producer, lyricist and composer, is this grain carried straight into your work.

In your work, metal, your Vital Element, stands for restraint, structure and finishing. Earth, your Support Element, is the trust and the promises that hold that structure up. Water, your Climate Element, has the part of cooling the heat and washing the jewel clear. But in excess it drains strength from metal that is already weak, so even rest and cooling must be measured out. The trouble is that the settings of fire, your Avoid Element, are the stage and broadcasting. Your livelihood lies right in the middle of that fire. Telling you to cut it off would be no remedy, so read it this way. The fire of the stage is fuel you burn every day, and metal and earth are the recharge that refills what you burn. Once a stage is over, a time to sort things out and wrap them up, and a time to calmly align your standards with people you trust, must follow without fail before you can light the next fire.

So the seats that suit you narrow down to three. The first is producer and creative director, designing the songs and the stage as a whole, because the precision of metal leads straight into the finish of the work. The second is head of a brand that carries your own name, like GLYF, a seat where the market sense of Dynamic Wealth and the independence of the Companion are put to use together. The third is style and visual planning, work that deals in aesthetics, where the needle-sharp eye of the Needle Star is worth the most. As for the size of your vessel, you lean far more toward entrepreneur than employee. But your Day Master is weak, so you are an entrepreneur who collapses if you hold everything alone. Three of the same metal fighting over a single Wealth star is your trap. The bigger the game grows, the more easily it blurs who takes on what and who keeps how much, and you wear yourself out filling those gaps alone. Keep the planning and the final call in your own hands, but build a structure that hands the day-to-day work and the finances to people whose actions run ahead of their words.

Your money is not money that piles up evenly like a salary. It rides the flow, coming in big and going out again. The Dynamic Wealth of the Rabbit Wood in your month branch is wealth of chances and turnover, and bound in the Rabbit-Goat half alliance, the energy of wealth holds the season, so the stakes that come your way are not small. But your strength to carry wealth is middling, so there is one clear place where it leaks as fast as it comes in, and one where it grows. The leak is the Companion. Yours is a structure in which three of the same metal share their grip on one fortune, so when shares blur among collaborations, colleagues and teams, yours is the first to be shaved away. That you are generous with people and friendly with just about everyone, a true social butterfly, cuts both ways here.

Where it grows is the road by which talent stays on as rights. Your natal chart shows no Expression stars, that is, no water, the bridge that links talent to money. That bridge came in through your luck. Yang Water in the Water Dragon luck cycle from around age nine, and Yin Water in the Water Snake luck cycle you stand in now, came in as the Performer and the Creative and let your expression flow outward. It was surely no accident that your gift for writing and making songs came into bloom in these years of water. So the things you make while this water stays, your own songs, your plans and the name of your brand, must remain firmly as rights and on paper if they are to become a storehouse you reap from steadily later on. Your wealth stands tall in 2028, the Earth Monkey year, and again from 2030 through 2032. In 2031, the Metal Pig year, above all, the Pig–Rabbit–Goat Three Harmony of Wood is completed and wealth gathers on a grand scale. But it is a large stake landing on a weak Day Master, so you must first have the people and the structure to carry it. 2026 and 2027 are better kept as years to guard rather than widen.

There is one thing to do starting this month. November is a month that opens for you, so for every song and brand project you have taken part in so far, set down on a page each who took on what and how shares and rights were settled.

In your chart, the star that signifies a partner is fire, the Authority stars. That fire stands far off in your first pillar as the Yang Fire of Noble Authority inside the Snake Fire of your year branch, and the Yin Fire of Fierce Authority hides inside the Goat Earth of your day branch. The star of bonds is split between two places, one seen far off and one in the closest, innermost seat. The people drawn to you carry an energy that wants to take you in hand and lead you. But that fire is your Avoid Element, so when that firm hand goes too far, it becomes a burden that melts your weak metal. So the partner who will stay long at your side is not someone who only burns hot like fire but someone with the grain of earth and metal, someone who keeps promises, shows it in deeds rather than words, and takes in your needle-sharp sensitivity without blaming you for it.

The Goat Earth of your day branch, the seat of your partner, is bound to the Rabbit Wood of your month branch in a half alliance. It is as if wealth were holding the partner’s seat in its arms, so in your heart, work and practical matters easily take that seat first. Your day branch also sits at the Decline stage of the Twelve Life Stages, so it is not a seat that boils but one that ripens quietly. Your bonds lean less toward arriving in a blaze and more toward seeping in slowly beside your work. The times when that seat moves are set as well. In 2026, the Fire Horse year, the year’s Horse Fire touches the Goat Earth of your day branch in the Horse-Goat harmony, bringing an energy of bonds and closeness into the seat nearest you. In 2028, the Earth Monkey year, the year’s Monkey Metal meets the Snake Fire of your year branch in the Snake-Monkey harmony and stirs the seat of the Authority stars. On the other hand, in 2033, the Water Ox year, the Ox-Goat Clash strikes your day branch head-on, so that year your close relationships and the rhythm of daily life are easily shaken.

Here is one thing to do starting today. Keep one evening a week free for seeing people without bringing up work. Making room to breathe in a partner’s seat bound up with wealth is, for you, the most practical remedy for love.

Yours is a chart where metal that lost its strength in spring sits between fire and dry earth, so you were born with a grain that heats up easily and dries out easily. Your Climate Element, too, points not toward warming but toward cooling and moistening. Stages flooded with light and schedules without pause push that heat higher still, so in the busiest seasons your mind is likely to go bone-dry before your body does. On days when the Needle Star turns inward, your energy leaks away as you keep polishing work in your head even while you rest.

The key to looking after yourself lies at the end of the day. Metal, your Vital Element, is the energy of evening, so the time when you sort out and close the day is the very time you are refilled. On nights after a stage, do not keep holding on to the restless heat. Let your body cool down somewhere fresh and moist. Keeping water close at hand and making sure the air does not dry out is the daily remedy that suits you. But water in excess also drains your weak metal further, so it is better to rest for a set length of time, so that even rest does not drag on.

The times to watch are the years and seasons when fire piles up. 2026 and 2027 are years when both your luck cycle and the year itself carry fire, so the heat and the schedule of summer 2027 in particular call for special care. If tired days stretch on, or the signals your body sends do not settle, leave that judgment to a doctor.

For you, 2026, the Fire Horse year, is a year to guard. The year’s Yang Fire and Horse Fire come in all at once as Noble Authority and Fierce Authority and press down on your weak metal, and the Snake Fire of the Water Snake luck cycle you stand in now is fire as well, so the luck cycle and the year overlap as your Avoid Element together. It is a year when headwinds come before tailwinds, so you are better off guarding what you have than widening. The year’s Yang Fire binds with all three Yin Metals of your year stem, month stem and Day Master in the Fire-Metal stem harmony. It is as if your three jewels were tied for the whole year to a cord of honor and position and pulled along by it. Whether this harmony leans toward water, and how much burden remains, depends on the season and the conditions of the branches, so it cannot be said for certain. But it is clear that this is a year when your public responsibilities grow.

What came to you this year shows this grain of the Authority stars just as it is. On the threshold of the Fire Horse year, in January 2026, you were named in the female solo singer category at a brand awards, and you took part as lyricist and composer in I.O.I’s 10th anniversary album LOOP. In a year of Noble Authority, public recognition and the weight of an old bond came together. The year’s Horse Fire touches the Goat Earth of your day branch in the Horse-Goat harmony, so an energy of closeness enters the seat nearest you as well. But whether this energy actually turns into stability depends on other conditions, so I will speak only as far as the possibility.

Let me fold the months already gone into one line. February through April, in spring, were the most open, and June, July and September were heavy. The two months left are both open to you. November is a month when water and earth take the edge off the heat, so it is good for tying off the sorting out and the contracts you have put off. December is a month when metal energy comes in from around the 7th, so it is right for building the structure for next year. But 2027, the Fire Goat year, is also a year of caution as the fire carries on, and the luck cycle’s Yin Water and the year’s Yin Fire collide in the Fire-Water stem clash, so decisions are easily overturned. The structure you set up at the end of this year must be kept up all through next year.

Let me first trace the road behind you. From around March 2010 to around March 2020, from nine to eighteen, the Water Dragon luck cycle was a decade in which help and caution came in together. Yang Water became the Performer and cut a channel for your expression, and Dragon Earth became the Nurturer and held up your weak metal. Those were the years when the dried-out jewel was washed and nourished for the first time. Being cut at the last threshold of a survival show, standing at the very front in the next one and debuting with I.O.I in May 2016, and standing on your own with “BIRTHDAY” in June 2019 all happened within these years of water and earth.

Now you are in the Water Snake luck cycle, from around March 2020 to around March 2030, from nineteen to twenty-eight. Yin Water, the Creative, lets your talent flow outward, while Snake Fire, Noble Authority, lays on responsibility and pressure, so it is a decade in which help and caution stand about evenly matched. Even within this stretch, each year has its own grain. 2026 and 2027 are years of caution, and 2028, the Earth Monkey year, is the brightest year, when earth and metal come in together. In 2029, the Earth Rooster year, the year’s Rooster Metal meets the Rabbit Wood of your month branch head-on in the Rabbit-Rooster Clash, so it is a year that brings help but also carries a caution that change may come to your workplace and where you belong.

From around March 2030, when you turn twenty-nine, to around March 2040 runs the Wood Horse luck cycle. It is a decade when Steady Wealth and Fierce Authority, that is, great wealth and heavy responsibility, come in together. But what comes in is wood and fire, so help and burden cross, and underneath it all lies a clear burden. Once you enter this luck cycle, the water that cut a channel for your expression drains away, and your years of creating pass into years of running things and carrying responsibility. From 2030 through 2032 open years follow one after another, but 2033, the Water Ox year, is the heaviest year, when the Ox-Goat Clash strikes your day branch. After that, from around March 2040, when you turn thirty-nine, to around March 2050 comes the Wood Goat luck cycle. Dynamic Wealth and the Mystic come in and the half alliance of Rabbit Wood and Goat Earth gains strength again, so it is a decade in which the field of wealth grows, yet help and burden are mixed about half and half. Beyond it, the Fire Monkey and Fire Rooster luck cycles, from forty-nine to sixty-eight, are a stretch where help and caution come together, and toward old age earth and metal return, making it easier to quietly keep what you have stored up. So think of the three-odd years left in your Water Snake luck cycle as the last season of creating while the water stays, and in that time set what you make firmly under your own name.

Let me finish the story of that woodblock workshop mistress of Kyoto. When the Onin War left the capital burning for more than ten years, she watched the channels the temples had held collapse, loaded her blocks onto a cart and went down to the port of Sakai. True to a chart rooted in a wandering seat, she cut a road just where others had lost everything. In that port she printed books for the merchants, and at last she carved the name of her own workshop into the edge of her blocks. For her, the materials and the channels were in other hands, but you today have held the blocks of your songs, your stages and your brand in your own hands from the start. Born with the same grain, a person is put to different use in a different age. Carve your name clearly into the edge of those blocks in 2028.

First, work and money. Through 2027, rather than launching a big new game, build up songs and plans, and in 2028, the Earth Monkey year, take a big step with that collection in hand. Settling the roles and shares of every contract and collaboration in writing is what that step rests on.

Second, people and relationships. Those who fill you up are disciplined people who show it in deeds rather than words, people who keep their promises. Keep beside you people who build structure, like the engineers in the recording studio or the hands-on staff who run finance and operations. Before this December is out, set up one meeting with the people you work with to sort out roles and shares. And the colleagues who have walked beside you for a long time are your ground, so do not let go of those bonds either.

Third, body, mind and the place you stay. On the west side of your workspace, set neatly arranged objects in white and metallic tones, and always finish the last task of the day there. Before the summer of 2027 arrives, make it second nature, when you close up work in the evening, to look at a single clock and divide what ends today from what passes to tomorrow.

Fourth, preparing for the luck cycle to come. When the Wood Horse luck cycle opens around March 2030, the water drains and responsibility grows heavy, so by 2029 put the rights to your own songs, your plans and your brand in order. And in 2033, the Water Ox year, put off big decisions and guard the rhythm of your daily life first.

When 2028, the Earth Monkey year, arrives, earth and metal come in together and knock, in the Snake-Monkey harmony, on the Snake Fire of your year branch, where your root lies. Before then, check once more that your share and your rights are in their proper place in the new game. I will be watching what game you set up that year.