Liz's SajuThree Trees by Early-Winter Water, Kindling Themselves into Song (Wood Dragon)K-POP · November 21, 2004

Three trees stand side by side at the water’s edge in winter. That is your chart. You are Yang Wood born in the early-winter month of Pig Water, and the water at your feet feeds your roots generously, so you are a tree that has met its season. Yet not a single ray of sunlight shows on the surface, so you are also a tree whose body runs cold. A tree like this does not wait for someone to shine sunlight on it. It kindles its own body to make warmth. The fire that comes from Yang Wood burning is sound itself, and that is why you are most yourself when you sing. People easily take you for a fragile tree full of tears, but the chart points somewhere else. The White Tiger Star lies in your day branch, the seat where you yourself sit, and a sharp-edged Fierce Authority holds its ground in your year branch, so the core of this chart is a resolve that keeps singing to the end even while crying.

On the docks of Mokpo after the port opened, there was a musician who carved paulownia wood into gayageum and plucked their strings with his own hands. Born on the same Wood Dragon day as you, with the Canopy Star in his day branch, he was a man whose sound grew deepest when he tuned the strings alone in the workshop while everyone else slept. But in those days the only places that called for a musician were the drinking tables of restaurant houses and the yards of feasting households, so ears that would hear his own melody from beginning to end were rare. He would come home from playing accompaniment to suit the guests’ mood, and every night he stitched together the rest of the melody alone.

Wood Dragon — Three Trees by Early-Winter Water, Kindling Themselves into Song

You are someone who holds a great aim and seeks to grow straight upward. The Wood Dragon Day Pillar is called the tree that rises riding a dragon. The Dragon Earth of your day branch is damp soil that holds up your roots, so the ground for growing your talent is solid. You set your goals high and strongly want them confirmed as results you can see, so you put out the most strength before work that pays back as much as you achieve. As you said in an interview, that it comes back to you as much as you work for it, that sense is the very ground of this Day Pillar.

Your Day Master is balanced. Born in the month of Pig Water, you have water nourishing the tree, and you have put down roots in two places, the Pig Water and the Dragon Earth, so you are not a weak tree. Still, the Fierce Authority of the Monkey Metal in your year branch presses on your body, and the water that could take that pressure and pass it on does not show on your stems and lies only within your branches. That is why you became a scale that tips to neither side. Your structure is the Mystic Structure. In this structure the water of the Pig Water in your month branch gives you an unusual ear and a mind that digs deep, so you are someone who hears a single sound differently from others, holds on to it alone for a long time and finally makes it your own. On your stems, the Companion of Yang Wood and the Rival of Yin Wood stand side by side, so you are also a tree that grows taller among colleagues who resemble you.

Yet the inside of this tree is far quieter than the outside. The Canopy Star sits in your day branch, so you gain strength in time spent alone, and between your month branch and day branch hang the Dragon–Pig Resentment and the Dragon–Pig Ghost Gate together, so your thoughts do not scatter outward but burrow inward. Your grain of not stepping up first to people you are meeting for the first time, then growing full of mischief once your heart opens, comes from here. The thinking side of the INTP you have named points the same way as your chart, so you are someone with many feelings, yet with a mind that weighs those feelings and puts them in order turning right alongside them.

You are a singer who studies sound. The Mystic Structure is a temperament that catches the grain others pass by and digs into it for a long time. The Academy Noble and the Hidden Prosperity Star sit together on the Pig Water of your month branch, so unseen help follows you wherever you learn. Your habit of singing alone for hours in the practice room to ease your mind is this structure’s way of working. You are someone whose results improve the longer you spend refining alone before showing others. On top of this, the Fierce Authority in your year branch adds the weight of system and responsibility, so your skill grows firmer in a place with strict standards than in a freedom without any frame.

So there are three roads that suit you. One is the singer who stands by her voice, as you do now. That is because the Mystic’s unusual ear becomes a weapon all your own, your tone. Another is the lyricist. The Academy Noble sits in the seat of writing and learning, so shaping thoughts into words is not unfamiliar to you, and writing the lyrics of your solo song yourself was a use of this seat. The last is, someday, a vocal director who guides other people’s songs, or a teacher. When the standards of the Fierce Authority meet the teaching of the Academy Noble, an eye for correcting other people’s sound is born. Between working in an organization and running a business, you lean clearly toward holding a domain of your own within a system rather than setting up a board alone. Holding songs under your own name even within a group is the garment that fits you best.

That water is your Vital Element means your work comes loose when you turn pressure into learning. When the metal weight of the stage’s standards and evaluations comes down, do not bear it with your body alone. Taking it in once with the water of practice and study and letting it flow out as skill is the road of this chart. Singing is the fire that warms a winter tree, so you truly need it. But fire comes from burning the tree, so the more you sing, the more you are drained. On days you have burned yourself on stage, refill the water with quiet time alone spent listening and writing. This rhythm of pushing and easing off is the secret to singing for a long time.

Your money comes from your name and your craft. Yours is a chart of the Mystic Structure holding the Academy Noble, so wealth too follows in step with the expertise and trust you build up. It is not money from one big gamble but money that grows steadily in places where skill is given a price. The Dragon Earth of your day branch is the Dynamic Wealth, so you hold a sense for reading reality in your hands. But in this chart that earth is the Avoid Element, so the more your mind is pulled toward money matters, the more easily the waterway of learning and song gets blocked. Your capacity to carry wealth is moderate, so I will point out where it leaks and where it grows, one each.

Where it leaks lies in the Companion and the Rival on your stems. A chart with many colleagues alike to you is built to share together what is earned together, so the more affection there is, the more easily the accounts are let slide unclear. Where it grows is work with your name on it. Lyrics you wrote yourself and songs under your own name become, once made, a storehouse that lasts, so the Academy Noble’s skill with words is itself the seed of wealth. In the Earth Monkey year of 2028, when earth presses on water, do not rush decisions tangled with large sums. The Metal Dog year of 2030, when Dog Earth strikes the earth of your day branch, is a year to watch, when the flow of money and your closest seat sway together, so use it only to settle old accounts and do not open a new board. From 2032, when water gathers in abundance, the worth of your name turns into money faster.

There is one thing to do starting this month. Gather in one place, by date, the work that carries your name, that is, the lyrics you have written and the memos you have recorded. Then note in a line each what result each one became and how its share was decided.

Your bonds are a door that opens slowly. With the Canopy Star sitting in your day branch, you are someone for whom time alone comes first, so even in letting someone into your heart you take a step only after watching for a long time. In this chart, the star that means a partner is the Authority star, the energy of metal, and it stands as the Fierce Authority on the Monkey Metal of your year branch. The grain of the people you are drawn to resembles it. Your heart is likely to lean toward someone firm, strict with their own work, clear in their standards and not easily shaken.

The Golden Carriage Star is attached to your day branch, the seat a partner enters, so help comes into that seat. The White Tiger Star sits in the same seat too, so the intensity inside you tends to show first in your closest relationship. The Resentment and the Ghost Gate between your month and day branches are a grain in which hearts subtly cross between your work and the people close to you, so in busy seasons silence easily runs longer than words. Seen through this grain, your saying that you are the slowest to reply to messages is most likely not indifference but your time to recharge alone. The Earth Rooster year of 2029 is a year when a combination reaches your day branch, so your heart easily comes to rest on a close bond. The following year, the Metal Dog year of 2030, the same seat sways with a clash, so you will need to set the rhythm of close relationships and daily life anew.

There is one thing to do starting today. Let the people close to you know in advance, in a single sentence, the times you want to be alone. Something like saying you are resting alone right now and will reply in the evening is enough.

Your energy comes alive when it is warmed. Yours is a chart of a tree by early-winter water with damp Dragon Earth laid on top, so when cold energy stays long, your body tends to feel heavy and your mind to sink. A life of warming your insides with hot broth and moving your body while the sun is up is the way of care that suits this tree. Your habit of eating gukbap, a hot rice soup, before recording is in effect a remedy this chart found on its own. On days singing has drained you, you fill back up only with the water of sleep and quiet. The Ghost Gate hangs across your month and day branches, so when thoughts run late into the night your sleep easily grows shallow. Make a habit of setting down what is in your head on paper before you sleep.

The root of the pressure that you must not make mistakes also shows in this chart. The Needle Star hangs on your year stem and year branch and on your Day Master, so the sharper your eye for fine detail, the more that eye drives you yourself first. The Fierce Authority in your year branch, too, keeps outside standards always standing at your back. If you take this pressure with your body alone, the tree is pressed down, but once it passes through water, the story changes. The flow in which Authority gives birth to Resource, the pressure of metal giving rise to water and that water nourishing the tree, is the road this chart’s Vital Element points to. As you said in an interview, your thinking changed from fearing mistakes to feeling it is fine to make one and you will do better next time, so you have already stepped onto that road. Your words that your heart feels easier after crying also describe your own way of letting what is blocked flow away as water.

In 2026, when a year of fire overlaps the White Tiger Star in your day branch, and in 2027, when the fire carries on, put order and safety first in choreography and stage movements that use your body hard. After a stage where you slipped, rather than chewing over the scene, write just one line on what you learned and close the book on it, and that is how to guard your heart. If an unfamiliar discomfort in your body keeps on, then seeing a doctor comes first.

This year, the Fire Horse year of 2026, is for you a year of expression. Its Yang Fire and Horse Fire are both fire, and in this chart they enter as the Performer and the Creative, the energies that make and reveal. To a winter tree this is welcome sunlight too. But the same fire kindles the tree again and again, so the burden of your Day Master being drained comes along with it. That is why it is a year in which help and burden divide by conditions. This year’s key word is expression.

Laid over your present Decade Luck, a tailwind and a headwind both show. The tailwind is that the Yin Water of the Water Rooster Decade Luck flows in as the Nurturer and refills the water as fast as the fire burns it, and the Noble Authority of its Rooster Metal gives frame and standards to the expression you bring out. It means this can be a year in which you pour yourself out without coming apart. The headwind is that with fire coming in again and again the tree easily dries out, and with the White Tiger in your day branch overlapping a year of fire, haste easily creeps into work that uses the body. Among the months already past, May and August held you up and September and October were heavy, so fold them away as things that are over.

Let me look at the two months left. November is a month when the energy of water arrives once the solar term turns in its first days, so use it to look back on what you poured out this year and gather lyrics and notes for your next song. December’s energy is even, so rather than starting anything new, it will serve you better to finish the year-end stages safely while looking after your body.

Your life is a road that rises along the water. Yours is a chart whose Decade Luck flows backward, so having passed the Wood Dog Decade Luck you now stand in the Water Rooster, with the Water Monkey next, on a road where water and metal come in one after another. The Wood Dog Decade Luck, from around age five to fourteen, mixed the energy of holding on by your own strength with the earth of practical reality, a time that carried help and burden together. The days when you flew between Jeju and Seoul every weekend were likely the time when, under this Decade Luck, you built the persistence to stand on your own feet.

Now you are in the Water Rooster Decade Luck, from around age fifteen to twenty-four, from around November 2019 to around November 2029. The Yin Water of the Nurturer puts learning straight to use and the Rooster Metal of the Noble Authority sets standards, so these are ten years in which support leads. But a good Decade Luck does not mean every year is gentle. The Fire Goat year of 2027 brings the Yin Fire–Yin Water Clash, in which the Yin Water of the Decade Luck and the Yin Fire of the year collide, with the drain of fire laid on top. The Earth Monkey year of 2028 is a year when earth blocks the waterway, and the Earth Rooster year of 2029 carries the Self-Punishment, in which the Rooster Metal of the Decade Luck and the Rooster Metal of the year double up and you easily drive yourself too hard. In these three years, do not hurry, and catch your breath.

From around November 2029, when you turn twenty-five, to around November 2039 comes the Water Monkey Decade Luck. The Yang Water of the Mystic carries in the water of your Vital Element in abundance, but the Fierce Authority of the Monkey Metal in its branch comes in too, so these are ten years in which help and burden divide by conditions. Years to watch continue in the Metal Dog year of 2030 and the Metal Pig year of 2031 as well, so the five years from 2027 to 2031 become one unbroken stretch of consolidation. In the Water Rat year of 2032 that comes at its end, the Rat Water of that year joins the Monkey Metal of your year branch and the Dragon Earth of your day branch, so the Monkey–Rat–Dragon combination of water stands complete, and it is the year when water gathers into one in this chart. From 2033 to 2035, too, the energy holds you up. Just as you said in an interview that you think you will still be making music past thirty, those four years running up to the threshold of thirty are a time when the water of your Vital Element and the wood of your Support Element push you onward.

The Metal Goat Decade Luck, from around November 2039, when you turn thirty-five, to around November 2049, is a stretch that carries caution. The Yin Metal of the Noble Authority and the Goat Earth of the Steady Wealth come in together, laying on the burden of metal pressing directly on your Day Master, so these are ten years in which the responsibilities you hold and the things you must manage grow heavy. Then, cut down the number of things you take on and see that you hold on with the water you stored in the Decade Luck before it, your learning and the work under your own name. You have the Heavenly Virtue Star and the Monthly Virtue Star on your stems, so if you carry yourself rightly, big troubles pass as small ones. The Metal Horse Decade Luck from forty-five continues the caution, and only on reaching the Earth Snake Decade Luck from fifty-five does the road level out, making it easier to tend quietly what you have built. So what you have to do now in the Water Rooster Decade Luck is turn what you have learned into results under your own name before the autumn of 2029 arrives.

Let me set the INTP you have named side by side with your saju. On the axis of Extraversion and Introversion, you chose Introversion, while the chart’s calculation points toward Extraversion. But the two calculations disagree, so this axis reads only as a weak lean. On the axis of Sensing and Intuition, too, you chose Intuition and the chart leans toward Sensing, but this is likewise a weak lean where the two calculations disagree, close to half and half. The practical sense of the Dynamic Wealth, which reacts at once with the body on stage, and the outside standards of the Fierce Authority in your year branch raised the calculation toward Extraversion and Sensing. Meanwhile, the inspiration of the Mystic and the solitude of the Canopy Star in your day branch hold up the Introversion and Intuition you chose. A day that opens outward on stage and closes inward once you return to the dorm is the picture of you that each of the two lenses sees.

On the axes of Thinking and Feeling and of Judging and Perceiving, the chart lands on the same side as you. The Thinking–Feeling axis reads as a weak lean toward Thinking because the two calculations disagree, but the trait your saju uses most prominently is the analysis of the Fierce Authority, so a mind that weighs things is clearly alive in you. Your story that you were F around your debut but got T when you took the test again in 2025 connects with this too. That the metal of the Noble Authority has been coming and going in your present Water Rooster Decade Luck, holding up the axis of weighing and measuring, likely played a part as well. On the Judging–Perceiving axis, a single calculation from the Ten Gods points toward Perceiving, so the grain of keeping plans open rather than closing them and moving as the feeling comes is yours.

For an INTP, the way to use your Vital Element lies in holding on to questions. When you hear a sound you love, weigh alone why it is good, and write that question in a notebook to use as the blueprint for lyrics. For you, that is the way of drawing up water. The Water Monkey Decade Luck from twenty-five is a time when the water of the Mystic comes in abundantly, so these will be ten years in which this exploring grain is put to its best use.

That musician of Mokpo never did lay out one full piece of his own melody before an audience. He played it from beginning to end only for one young apprentice who came and went at the workshop, and that melody passed into the apprentice’s hands and survived. The depth of solitude made by the Canopy Star in his day branch found no place to be heard in that age. But is today’s world not opening to you a road that keeps sound refined alone as a recording and hands it straight to countless ears? For you, that road is lyric writing and songs under your own name.

First, work and money. Before the autumn of 2029, when the Water Rooster Decade Luck ends, write the lyrics of at least one song under your own name every year. Then, in the Water Rat year of 2032, when water gathers into one, prepare to collect them and bring them out into the world.

Second, people and relationships. People with strong intuition who think deeply, the philosopher, artist and adviser types, are the ones who feed you water. Within 2027, keep beside you one musician you can talk with at length, someone who writes songs, writes words or teaches voice. That person will keep you from bearing that year, which carries caution, alone.

Third, body and mind, and the place you stay. The water of this chart shows itself as night and the north, and as the quiet depth of black and deep navy. Within this winter, gather the few minutes before sleep into a single deep-navy notebook. Use it as a place to write just one line of what you learned on stage that day and one line of lyrics that came to you. What guards you is the lines that pile up in that notebook, and your hands that turn those lines back into song.

Fourth, the coming Decade Luck. Before the Metal Goat Decade Luck arrives in 2039, between 2032 and 2035, when the energy holds you up, prepare a second place where you can stand besides singing. Whether it is lyric writing or guiding other people’s voices, it will be the bridge that carries you across those heavy ten years.

The Water Rat year of 2032 is coming, the year when water gathers as three characters in your chart and becomes one. Before then, count once how many songs you have refined alone and piled up. What your voice will be singing that year, I will confirm by that sound.