Olivia Rodrigo's SajuA Great Tree Turning the Storm Within into Song (Wood Rat)Billboard · February 20, 2003

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A great green tree stands on ground from which early spring's chill has not yet lifted, stretching straight toward the sky. The moment I open your chart, irrepressible vitality and taut pride pour forth. The world may call you a splendid flower, applauded by everyone at a young age. Yet what I see in your roots is someone standing with her feet in a cold spring, sharpening needles against herself with almost cruel precision. Outwardly you reach people's hearts with warmth and kindness. Within, you must have swallowed alone that cold, restless worry: 'Do I truly deserve this place? Will I slip at the next step?'

Around the reign of Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song, in Quanzhou's markets where trading ships gathered from every direction, I saw a woman physician with a chart like yours: Yang Wood rooted around February, standing upon Rat Water. Her fingertips were sharp as an awl when she read a pulse, seeing through symptoms others missed. Yet she could not exercise her skill freely before the high threshold of an age that denied her a court physician's post. She swallowed her anguish while quietly tending the wounds of sailors departing across distant seas. The same cold thirst that moved within her heart is plainly readable in your eyes as you sit before me today.

Wood Rat — A Great Tree Turning the Storm Within into Song

You are a great tree born in February, in early spring, with the form of roots laid upon a clear, cold sea. Born with Prosperity in the month branch, your independence and resolve to stand firmly on your own feet are exceptionally strong. This is Yang Wood overflowing with strength in its proper season. You cannot bear taking orders or being confined within a mold. Yours is a bold, unflinching spirit, satisfied only by cutting its own road.

Yet you hold the Nurturer in your day branch and Yin Water above in your year stem, so thought follows thought without rest. You learn quickly and have an exceptional brightness for reading a situation intuitively, but those thoughts can also grow excessive, creating a shadow of self-scrutiny and endlessly revisited wounds. The Needle Star in your year, month and day branches and Ghost Gate in your year and month branches have sharpened your senses to an extreme edge. Your genius for reaching the bottom of feeling and shaping songs in raw language comes from these cool, taut nerves. When the blade cannot turn outward, however, it readily returns as self-reproach that cuts your own flesh.

You may think of yourself as a gentle person who enjoys company, then suddenly long to retreat into a cave alone. That is because Wood's inborn drive and Water's deep inward pull are endlessly tugging against each other within you.

Your Structure is Prosperity, the very pattern of a self-made life, building achievement through your own skill and sweat rather than expecting favors from others. This chart cannot remain a component within an orderly organization. You can breathe fully only on an independent stage, facing the world under your own name. Wood is strong enough to form a forest. That overflowing energy absolutely needs a passage through which it can burn and pour outward.

Here is why Fire, the Expression stars, is your Vital Element. Fortunately, though it does not appear on the original chart's surface, Yang Fire hides deep within the month branch, and Yin Fire within the Earth of the year branch. Draw out those embers buried in your chest and burn them through song and acting onstage. Only then can your mighty energy flow freely and become a powerful flame that captivates the public.

The greatest trap to guard against is the delay of blocking your own outlet for expression while pursuing perfection in your head. Just as swelling Water keeps Fire from rising and leaves Wood rotting, repeated thought about the public's judgment or fear of the next work blocks the road of creation. A way of working that pours raw emotion out freely, without refining it first, is the purest way to keep Fire, your Vital Element, alive.

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Alongside the chart's strong Day Master, Goat Earth as Steady Wealth in the year branch provides dependable support. You have a deeply fortunate vessel, fully able to shoulder and govern the wealth pouring in. At its foundation lies expression producing wealth, drawing money by making your own road through talent and expression. The higher your name rises, the more your storehouse fills without running dry.

Yet one place in the flow of money requires particular care: the Resentment and Harm arising where Rat Water in the day branch meets Goat Earth in the year. This is a warning of distress through personal trust entangled in the movement of money or gaps in agreements, rather than a lack of money itself. Let emotional warmth lead you into vague assumptions about rights and shares with close colleagues, acquaintances or people bound to you by contract, and gossip and losses will be hard to avoid.

Since Earth is your Support Element, the safest course is to bind the wealth you receive into tangible assets as firm and honest as the land, rather than send it into fanciful, invisible investments or derivatives.

What to begin this month:
With an objective legal expert, carefully recheck every existing copyright, music-revenue distribution and concert-settlement agreement from beginning to end. Establish in writing a transparent principle for separating assets that does not sway with your feelings.

Among the six characters of the three known pillars, Authority, the Metal energy representing a spouse, does not appear distinctly either on the surface or within the hidden stems. This emphatically does not mean you will have no partner for life. It means a nature that seeks someone whose soul resonates fully with your own, unbound by conventional romantic standards or institutional forms.

The Peach Blossom Star, an alluring star that draws people's eyes, sits in your day branch's spouse palace. Yet this place forms Rat-Goat Resentment with the year's Goat Earth. A bond may begin in a pull as intense as flame, but closeness can turn it into deep hurt over the smallest attitude or an exhaustion that constricts both people's breathing. Understand that your sharp sensitivity can act as poison on love's stage, doubting the other's heart too deeply or reading too much into it.

The partner who suits you is a dependable, emotionally steady man, able to receive the flames burning within you quietly and hold them like warm Earth. With someone as sensitive or sharp-edged as yourself, the fire ignites easily and leaves wounds just as easily. Be careful of that.

What to begin today:
When an emotional wave rises toward a lover or someone close, do not react or send a message on the spot. Establish a rule of postponement: pour the intense feeling onto paper first, then let a night pass.

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Wood's force is very strong, but the foundation supporting it is surrounded by cold Water and damp energy. When circulation stagnates, body and mind can easily grow heavy together. You overflow with vitality when Fire burns actively, yet when cold Water sweeps in with the course of luck, warmth cools within the body. Everything becomes bothersome and motivation weakens, and an imbalance of heat above and cold below can readily follow.

In particular, the Needle Star in the year, month and day branches and Ghost Gate in the year and month branches can stretch the nerves to an extreme edge. After releasing too much energy beneath the stage lights and people's eyes by day, night can bring blood rushing to the head, an inability to sleep deeply and troubled thoughts following one another. The more you think, the more the flow through the stomach and digestion can stiffen. Take particular care over the temperature of what you eat.

Keep away from cold drinks and raw food. You urgently need the everyday wisdom of always warming the lower belly and the ends of the feet to draw energy downward. If tightness in the chest and deepening anxiety prolong the nights when you cannot sleep, do not swallow it alone. Go straight to a physician to untangle the energy within.

This year, 2026, the Fire Horse year, is a year of upheaval with fierce creative flames. Yang Fire as the Creative rises above, and Horse Fire as the Performer arrives below. A powerful force makes your talent and desire for expression erupt like a volcano, capturing the public's entire gaze. There could hardly be a more dynamic current for pouring out stories kept only in your chest and broadening your stage to the world.

Yet light and darkness part sharply at one point: the Rat-Horse Clash, in which the year's Horse Fire strikes your day branch's Rat Water head-on. The day branch is yourself and your most private refuge. With Fire and Water colliding directly, emotions can sway like a roller coaster, while fierce storms threaten your closest relationships. Fortunately, this collision also breaks apart and drives away the cold Water of your Avoid Element that had stagnated in the original chart, laying the ground for a dazzling artistic ascent. In private life, however, you must bear an extreme expenditure, enough to wear your nerves away.

Today, October 22, 2026, the Earth Snake day, is greatly fortunate. Yin Earth, your Support Element, enters the stem and Snake Fire, your Vital Element, enters the branch. The lively Fire of the Expression stars flows fully into the wealth of the Earth. It is a very beneficial current for making a creative decision you have hesitated over or concluding a financial agreement.

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The course of the 10-year Major Fortunes leading your life draws a dramatic rising curve, leaving a cold earthen road for hot pavement as you pass through youth.

You are now in the Fire Dragon Major Fortune, ages 15–24, from February 2018 to February 2028, a neutral, mixed stretch. Fire above helped your talent bloom early, yet Dragon Earth beneath your feet is moist soil, not dry. This was a stepping-stone period of light and shade: even as you spread your wings, inward anxiety and the eyes around you confined you in confusion.

The true golden stretch is near: the coming Fire Snake Major Fortune, ages 25–34, from February 2028 to February 2038, is auspicious. Powerful energy of the Performer and the Creative arrives, with both stem and branch made entirely of pure flame. It will melt every inward judgment and standard of the age that blocked you, raising you to an artistic height uniquely your own. Creative heat will pour out too fiercely for you even to spare time for others' opinions, and you will command stages around the world. Yet in years when Wood overlaps excessively, such as 2034, the Wood Tiger year, and 2035, the Wood Rabbit year, competition among colleagues or the division of shares may bring conflict. Set boundaries beforehand.

In the following Earth Horse Major Fortune, ages 35–44, from February 2038 to February 2048, auspicious luck opens the current of Dynamic Wealth and the Performer, flames dancing over a vast territory. You will enjoy 10 years of settling into place, going beyond a creator to complete an empire of great cultural influence and unshakable wealth. Later life from 45 onward continues through Earth Goat, Metal Monkey and Metal Rooster periods, moving toward peaceful management and harvest, calmly holding your place.

Compare ESFJ, the lens through which you see yourself, with heaven's map of your three known pillars and six characters. They agree in the way you meet people, yet an intriguing difference appears in the fundamental direction of your soul's energy. You define yourself as extraverted, sharing warmth and valuing harmony, and as practical and sensing. Deep in the chart, however, there is a clear inclination toward introversion that sinks inward and intuition that sees the unseen side.

The Nurturer in Rat Water, seated in the chart's day branch, is a star of insight that thinks without rest and explores the soul's depths. Strong Wood holds the intuitive energy of sending ideals upward rather than settling into present reality. The warm sociability and goodwill with which you care for people in public, your outward feeling, are true rather than false. Yet the fierce loneliness and anguish after leaving the stage arise because the chart's deep axes of introversion and intuition are asking to replenish themselves. Feeling and judging agree exactly with the chart's course. They appear firmly in your deep response to people's pain and your wish to make thorough plans before acting at work.

The secret to using Fire, your Vital Element, fully through this inborn nature is clear. Do not remain inside the good child's ESFJ mold, striving to meet expectations and adjust yourself to others' eyes. Take the keen inward pain and intuition drawn from your solitary cave, your introversion and intuition, and turn them into the most honest, daring flames onstage.

That physician in the flourishing Southern Song city of Quanzhou possessed a sharp gift for reading pulses, yet could find no institutional chance for her learning and practice to receive formal recognition. Burning inwardly in the seaside dusk, she finally turned away in loneliness, blaming the age she lived in and never fully making her name. Today's world, however, no longer confines your keen sensitivity and delicate awl to inner rooms or back alleys. It has opened a vast stage on which the whole world can welcome your wounds and confessions with cheers. Were you not born in an age when you can boldly unfold what that old physician was unjustly denied?

Let me give you four paths to remember so you can burn for years to come and preserve your life. Engrave them firmly upon your heart.

First, in work and money, build upon 2026's explosive achievement and establish a complete, independent arrangement for managing copyright, likeness rights and income derived from them within the coming 2027. To prevent the legal disputes and contests over shares that follow fierce success, do not lean upon personal trust. It is best to fix boundaries in cold documents.

Second, among people and relationships, keep dependable, Earth-like people near you, steady in their place and sparing with words, rather than changeable artists who set your emotional swings moving alongside theirs. Be wary of those approaching intoxicated by splendid praise. Learn to open your heart only to a few firm bonds who can quietly watch over your fragile inner world.

Third, for the dwelling place of body and mind, put care into driving cool energy out of your studio and bedroom and filling them with warmth. Bring abundant sunlight through a south-facing window, and keep red or orange lighting nearby so midday warmth stays in your daily life. When restless thoughts spread like fire, do not force yourself to sleep. Instead, move your body, sweat and pour the energy outward.

Fourth, prepare for the coming Major Fortune. In the stable course of 2027, the Fire Goat year following this Fire Horse year, make certain you store the physical strength to bear the enormous flames of the Fire Snake period opening in 2028, when you are 25. Running without rest will keep you from fully enjoying the greatest golden stretch of your life. Behind the stage, introduce a rhythm of replenishment, thoroughly cutting outside connections and taking a long breath.

A talisman is no lucky accident arriving from outside. It is a signal of faith in the ember already hidden within your chest. When you raise your own Fire fully without fearing it, no prison of other people's eyes will be able to hold you.

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Around July 2027, in the Fire Goat year, when the fierce flames of this stormy passage have settled and the Earth's warmth rises more generously, return to me with unwavering roots and your deepened songs in hand. I shall gladly welcome the worthy citadel of the heart you have built. May warm sunshine stay behind your steps as you set out upon the long road, rather than a chill wind.