Ni-ki's SajuA Midwinter Brazier, Bringing Its Stored-Up Instincts to the Stage (Fire Rabbit)K-POP · December 9, 2005

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You are not someone who holds a great deal of fire. You are someone who keeps searching for a place to set that fire out. Your Day Master, Yin Fire, is the small flame in a brazier that heats iron, and the wood that feeds it stands in two places, on your year stem and in your day branch. The earth that takes the firelight and gives it shape sits in only one seat, your month stem. So even after you have pulled something off, you tend to say that something is still missing and choose first to go back to the practice room and stack more wood. You probably think of yourself as someone sure of dancing and nothing else. But the person this chart points to is someone who notices first what others walk past, and brings it out through body and words. Dance is only the first of those passages to open.

Around the reign of King Myeongjong of Joseon, there was an apothecary in Andong who held the same Fire Rabbit Day Pillar as you. He had an eye that saw healing power first in the wild grasses others trod underfoot, and the people of the district trusted any prescription from his house without question. But medicinal herbs brought in from China reached him only after passing through Hanyang, and he had no way to make his prescriptions known beyond the district. He was by nature a man who stored his rare sense inward, so night after night he wrote out one prescription at a time and tied them in bundles in the attic.

Fire Rabbit — A Midwinter Brazier, Bringing Its Stored-Up Instincts to the Stage

You are someone who brings out all of your fire only once pressure is on. Born as Yin Fire in the Rat month of deep winter, the month of water, you lost the strength of the season. The Rat Water in your month branch becomes the Fierce Authority and drives you hard, so your structure is the Fierce Authority Structure. In your own day branch there is no root of fire like yourself. Even so, the Yin Wood on your year stem and the Rabbit Wood in your day branch hold the fire up, and since the weight of that support comes out ahead, this chart is judged as a strong Day Master. When you were sent down to the Ground on I-LAND and threw yourself into practice, saying you had to do it as if your life depended on it, that was the scene where this structure showed itself most honestly. Set beside your known type, INTJ, the saju points the same way on one axis only, the lean toward Intuition.

The Yin Wood on your year stem and the Rabbit Wood in your day branch are both the Mystic. The Mystic is the star that does not follow the order in which others learn, and catches things first with its own sense. That you began with ballet and swallowed hip-hop, locking and girls’ hip-hop without being picky, and that when asked what you love besides dancing you answered the practice room, are both faces of this star. In your day branch sits the Needle Star, which gives you an eye that misses no fine detail, but that needle sometimes pricks you as well. This is why you turn firm and cold in front of dance.

The Yang Earth on your month stem is the Performer. The Performer is the star of expression that pushes what you hold inside out through words and body, and it makes you speak your convictions even in front of those older than you. In ordinary life the Fierce Authority of your month quietly presses you down and makes you shy, and only on stage, where the Performer’s exit swings wide open, does your fire stand at its full size. So it is only natural that you on stage and you in daily life look like two different people. Crying until your face turns red over other people’s troubles while rarely crying over your own comes from the same nature. Yin Fire is a flame that burns itself to light those beside it, so it is soaked first by the pain of those it shines on.

You are someone who grows by pushing yourself into the places where you fall short. Rather than dancing, which you do well, you clung to singing after being told your pitch wavered, and practiced your breathing with a balloon in your mouth. That is how a Fierce Authority Structure works by nature. Put it somewhere comfortable and the fire withers. Hand it a task that is almost too heavy, and only then does it blaze. Your wish to sing better is not greed but the homework this structure sets for you. That your singing parts have grown a great deal since your early debut days is proof that you are already working through that homework.

The energy this chart wants most is earth. The Performer of Yang Earth on your month stem, that is, the power to make and to express, is your Vital Element. On your year branch the Literary Star and the Scholar Star sit together, turning your mind toward learning, organizing and passing things on to others. Teaching the older members moves that were not even in your part, learning the choreography first and fixing each person’s posture one by one, was exactly how this seat is used. So the work that suits you branches into three. They are the performer on stage, the choreographer who creates movement, and the director who designs the picture of the whole stage. If you had to choose between employee and entrepreneur, yours is a vessel that sits in an independent seat inside an organization. You shine brightest when, within the fence of a team, you hold a creative domain that carries your name.

Where you get stuck is clear. When the Wood of the Mystic overflows, it presses down on the earth, and the thought “I will put it out once it is more perfect” covers the place where results should be. The answer is to put it out on the day you set, even unfinished. The Fire Dog Decade Luck you are passing through now carries Dog Earth in its branch, the Performer’s earth, and it held up your ten years of debut and growth. In the next Wood Rooster Decade Luck, you will have to guard that exit with your own hands. The Heavenly Noble Star on your year branch is a seat where an elder who will reach out a hand in urgent moments stays close by, so do not try to carry everything alone.

Your money is money that comes from talent. The results made by the Performer, the Yang Earth of your month, flow to the Dynamic Wealth, the Rooster Metal of your year branch. That structure, a road on which expression turns into reward, is laid in this chart. Dynamic Wealth is the star of money played on a bigger board and turning over faster than a salary that piles up month by month. Your Day Master is strong, the Wealth star has its root in its own seat, and that Wealth star is your Support Element, so this is a chart built to carry large wealth. So the word that should reach you first is not “guard it” but “grow it.”

The timing splits. The Fire Horse year of 2026 and the Fire Goat year of 2027 are back-to-back years that bring the Companion and Rival stars into the Heavenly Stem, energy the same as your own fire. Competition heats up and there is more dividing of shares, so before looking at what comes in, look first at with whom and how you divide it. In the Earth Monkey year of 2028, the Performer’s earth and the Steady Wealth’s metal arrive together, opening a year when what you make leads straight to reward. In the Metal Dog year of 2030, the Steady Wealth of Yang Metal and the Performer of Dog Earth overlap, so within these ten years wealth and the stage open widest. The Earth Rooster year of 2029 brings help to your wealth together with a shaking of your day branch, so for as much as comes in, look after the place of your heart too.

Working as a team is a structure built on dividing the take from the start. In the two years that bring the Companion and Rival stars, rather than blaming that structure, it is better to make clear where your contribution stays. You choreographed part of “Bite Me” yourself and lent a hand to the lyrics of “Highway 1009.” The channel through which contributions like these turn into your name and your reward is exactly your road to wealth.

Let me give you one thing to do starting this month. Write the moves and lyrics you have made or added to in a single record book, each with its date. That ledger will speak for your share at your next contract.

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The bonds that draw you are with people who are lively and have a clear world of their own. In this chart the star that means a partner is Metal, the Wealth star, and it sits as Dynamic Wealth in the Rooster Metal of your year branch. Your heart easily goes to people of a free spirit rather than a set mold, people you meet on a wide stage or in a faraway place. The partner’s seat of a Fire Rabbit Day Pillar is said to connect with someone affectionate whose feelings move with yours. But the Rooster Metal of your year and the Rabbit Wood of your day collide head-on in the Rabbit–Rooster Clash, so the star that attracts you and the seat of your partner strike each other. The attraction is clear, yet the closer you get the more friction comes, so this is a bond in which you should close the distance slowly rather than rushing.

Between the Rat Water of your month and the Rabbit Wood of your day hangs the Rat–Rabbit Punishment. It is a pattern in which the sharp energy of work and the outside world easily spreads even into your closest relationship. It means the firmness you use in the practice room can read as coldness in front of someone you love. On top of that, your day branch is the Mystic, so you are used to holding feelings inside, and the way you squirm with embarrassment when you say “I love you” in Japanese is exactly this seat. It is not that the heart is missing. The road for bringing it out is narrow.

The fortune of your bonds shakes once in the Earth Rooster year of 2029 and opens in the Metal Dog year of 2030. In 2029 the year’s Rooster Metal joins the Decade Luck in striking your day branch, so your closest relationship and the place of your daily life move greatly. The following year, 2030, Dog Earth forms the Rabbit–Dog Combination with the Rabbit Wood of your day branch, and Yang Metal, the Steady Wealth that is the star of a partner, appears on the stem, so it is a year when you are easily drawn together with someone your heart reaches.

Here is one thing to do starting today. When you feel grateful, do not let your words trail off into a vague “kind of,” but say that feeling all the way through in one sentence.

Yours is a body that tires only after the mind tires first. The Ghost Gate Star stretched across your year and month branches is a seat that makes thoughts burrow inward. In such a seat, sleep and mind shake before the body does. With the Needle Star in your day branch added, there will be many nights when you cannot fall asleep easily because you keep replaying moves in your head even after the day is over. The story that you could only fall asleep with someone beside you, then bought a big pillow to practice sleeping alone, showed a good instinct for taking your own sleep in hand.

The two months left this year especially call for time to rest and cool down. In the Fire Horse year of 2026, the year’s Horse Fire sets off the Rat–Horse Clash with the Rat Water of your month, a year when fire presses down on water, so it is easy to heat up and hard to settle down. You do work that uses the body hard, so put your days off on the practice schedule as appointments too. You are a fire born in deep winter, so in the cold season make it a habit to warm your body before you move.

Before sleep, instead of replaying the day’s moves in your head, write down just one thing to do tomorrow and close the notebook. If some discomfort keeps on, do not put it off, and have a doctor look at it.

The Fire Horse year of 2026 is a doorstep year for you. Caution comes first this year, so it is no time to hurry. The Rival and the Companion, energy the same as your own fire, come in together on the stem and the branch, so competition heats up and shares get divided. If I sum up this year in one word, it is “doorstep.” The place just before you cross over is always the heaviest and most crowded.

A tailwind and a headwind blow together. The tailwind comes from your present Fire Dog Decade Luck and this year forming the Horse–Dog half combination. The fire energy gathers in one direction, and it will have become the power for the whole team to run hot toward the same goal. The headwind comes from the year’s Horse Fire setting off the Rat–Horse Clash with the Rat Water of your month. It is a clash in which two cardinal branches face off head-on, so it is a year when the setting of your work and activities shakes greatly. June, now behind you, was the month when that month’s branch struck your month branch head-on, so it was the month you were most out of breath.

Let me speak of the two months left. November is the month this year when you can breathe a little easier, but the whole year is a year of caution, so it is better to wrap things up firmly than to start something big. Around December comes the doorstep where the Decade Luck passes from Fire Dog to Wood Rooster. At this time, rather than hurrying to set up a new board, sort out what the last ten years left behind. The heat built up this year must be cooled once at the year’s end so that the first step of the next ten years is light.

Your road has already opened wide once, and now you stand before the second door. Your first Decade Luck, the Fire Pig Decade Luck from age one to ten, was a time when energy the same as your fire mixed with the upright energy of water. That is when you began dancing, at three. The Fire Dog Decade Luck that followed, from eleven to twenty, carried Dog Earth in its branch, the Performer’s earth that is your Vital Element, so it was ten years in which help led. The road by which you crossed to Korea, went through a survival show and debuted at fourteen was laid on top of this very earth. This stretch closes around December 2026.

Next is the Wood Rooster Decade Luck. It runs from age twenty-one to thirty, from around December 2026 to around December 2036. It is a mixed ten years in which help and caution come together. The Yin Wood on its stem is the Mystic, deepening thought and sense, but it is also the Avoid Element and presses on the earth of your results. The Rooster Metal in its branch is Dynamic Wealth and your Support Element, calling in reward and a wide stage, but it strikes the Rabbit Wood of your day branch and shakes your closest seat. The character of each year divides clearly too. The Fire Goat year of 2027 follows this year as the second caution year in a row. The door opens in the Earth Monkey year of 2028, and the peak of these ten years comes in the Metal Dog year of 2030. The Metal Pig year of 2031 is a year to be careful, because the Yin Wood of the Decade Luck and the Yin Metal of the year collide in a stem clash and Wood energy swells, so your will is easily bent and decisions easily overturned. A supporting year comes again in the Water Ox year of 2033, and the Wood Tiger year of 2034 and the Wood Rabbit year of 2035 are years to guard rather than to expand.

After that, the Wood Monkey Decade Luck runs from thirty-one to forty, from around December 2036 to around December 2046. The Yang Wood of the Nurturer and the Monkey Metal of the Steady Wealth mix in it, a mixed stretch in which firming learning into a system and steady reward come together. The Water Goat Decade Luck that opens at forty-one after that is also a mixed stretch. While the Fierce Authority of water on its stem drives you hard, the Creative’s earth enters the branch, and leaving what you have built to juniors and in finished work becomes a good deal easier.

You asked about the Billboard stage. Your fortune backs it. The year it opens widest is the Metal Dog year of 2030, and the Earth Monkey year of 2028 and the Water Ox year of 2033 support it on either side. From 2034 years of guarding follow one after another, so if you are aiming for a big stage, your window runs until 2033. So what you have to do now, at this doorstep, is to hone one weapon that carries your name, aimed at that window. It could be the acrobatics you say you have not shown yet, or a song in your low voice.

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Let me set your known type, INTJ, side by side with your saju. One axis points the same way, the axis of Sensing and Intuition. By both calculations your saju leans clearly toward Intuition, and the listed type is Intuitive too. The unusual sense made by your two Mystic stars is a power you can trust and use. The axis of Extraversion and Introversion splits. By both calculations your saju points toward Extraversion, while your current type is Introverted. The you who stands on stage as boldly as if you lived alone in the world, and the you who is shy in daily life and texts the least in the group chat, live together in one person. The saju saw the fire reaching outward, and the type saw you spending that fire sparingly.

The axis of Thinking and Feeling splits as well. By both calculations your saju is clear toward Feeling, but your type is Thinking. If the you who coolly measures moves in front of dance is the face of Thinking, the you who cries until your face turns red over others’ troubles is the face of Feeling that the saju saw. On the axis of Judging and Perceiving, the saju points toward Perceiving by one calculation, from the Ten Gods, and your type is Judging. That is why the planning that has you learn choreography before anyone else lives alongside an open sense that takes in any genre. The fact that your type has changed several times is itself a trait made by the Mystic and the Performer. You are someone who does not keep yourself in one box for long.

Let me give you one way to use your Vital Element in true INTJ fashion. You are the kind who, once you make a plan, pushes it through to the end, so drive the exit of earth into the plan itself. Once every three months, first fix the date for what you will put out, and by that day show what you have made, even unfinished, to the older members or people close to you. The next Wood Rooster Decade Luck is ten years in which the wood of thought grows further, and this habit will turn that wood into earth.

The prescriptions that apothecary in Andong tied up in his attic never made it beyond the district in the end. It was a world in which the road to obtain herbs and the channel to make prescriptions known were open only in Hanyang, so his rare eye remained the secret of one district. He only stored the Mystic’s sense inward, and the world never gave him an exit of earth through which to bring it out. But today, is there not a world open before you in which a single move crosses the sea overnight? The same sense has now gained its exits in the stage and the screen, in choreography and lyrics, so what remains is for you to open those exits yourself.

First, work and money. By the Earth Monkey year of 2028, finish one result that carries your name and put it out into the world. A solo stage you put together yourself, choreography you created, lyrics you wrote, any of these will do. You said you want to try both hip-hop and sweet songs. The Performer’s sharp expression serves hip-hop and the warmth of Yin Fire serves sweet songs, so both are yours. Only, put out one a year, in an order you set.

Second, people and relationships. The ones who will fill you are people like a pillar, who keep promises and build trust through actions more than words. The choreographers and directors you have worked hand in hand with for a long time, and the staff who quietly hold up the back of the stage, are such people. The Six Harms Star in your month branch is a seat where expectations easily go astray in your nearest workplace, so from around December 2026, when the Wood Rooster Decade Luck begins, make it a habit not to leave what you want to guesswork but to confirm it in words first.

Third, body and mind, and the place where you stay. Going back and forth between Japan and Korea is fine. But your Vital Element of earth means a center you always return to, so fix one place where you work as your center and use the other as a place to catch your breath. In months when travel piles up, lighten your practice load in advance. Within this year, choose one earth-colored or brown box as the spot where you keep the dance shoes you cherish most. Wherever you have been, the moment you set those shoes down there will become the signal that you have returned to your center.

Fourth, preparing for the Decade Luck ahead. In the Metal Pig year of 2031 your will is easily bent and decisions easily overturned, so let that year’s big contracts or career decisions sit a while longer. The years 2034 and 2035 are years of guarding, so gather in what you will reap by 2033, before they come. Before the Wood Monkey Decade Luck arrives in 2036, organize the way you have taught dance to the older members and to juniors into a single method. The star of learning in the next ten years will take it up.

In the Earth Monkey year of 2028, the Performer’s earth and the Steady Wealth’s metal arrive together, and a year will come when what you have made returns to you as reward under your own name. Come back then to tell me how people received what you put out that year, and what you chose, a song or a dance. May the fire of the practice room burn at its full size on the stage.