Sung Hanbin's SajuA Candle in the Heart of Midsummer, Lighting Its Own Stage with the Fire That Warmed Others (Fire Goat)K-POP · June 13, 2001

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You are a candle lit in the very heart of midsummer. Look anywhere across the pillars of your birth year, month and day, and they are full of fire and the energy that feeds it, while not a single drop of water to cool that heat shows, either on the surface or within. People will remember you as a warm person who warms those beside you. Yet what this chart points to first is the other side. It is a fire already so hot that a place to cool down and be soaked through matters more to it than warming anyone else. The Nayin Sound Element of the Fire Goat Day Pillar bears the name of the river of heaven, so your day pillar has already told you what you will spend your life searching for.

On the docks of the Tagus River in Lisbon, in the reign of King Manuel, I saw a musician born on the same Fire Goat day as you, with the Peach Blossom Star in his month pillar. He carved his own stringed instrument by hand and played it in the doorway of a tavern, and the moment he began tuning the strings, sailors bound for India stopped in their tracks. But the banquets of noble houses opened their doors only to musicians with famous patrons, and he stayed on the docks for years, giving his own spot to fellow musicians who had no work. Then one spring, on the day a fleet weighed anchor, a merchant called out to him and stopped him.

Fire Goat — A Candle in the Heart of Midsummer, Lighting Its Own Stage with the Fire That Warmed Others

The Fire Goat Day Pillar is a fire seated on dry summer earth, like an evening glow. You were born in the midsummer month of Horse Fire and took in the full strength of the season. The Yang Fire inside the Snake Fire of your year branch, and the Yin Fire inside the Horse Fire of your month branch and the Goat Earth of your day branch, all serve as roots for your Day Master, so your Day Master is strong. Even though the Yin Metal of your year stem holds the Yang Wood of your month stem in check, it is clear that the force of the fire leads. On top of that, the Snake Fire, the Horse Fire and the Goat Earth gather to form the Snake–Horse–Goat directional combination, so the fire of the south has become a single band, and because your month branch is the Prime Fortune of your Day Master, your structure is the Prime Structure. It means you are someone who rises by your own strength rather than holding on to someone else’s line, and who uses that strength first to warm the people beside you.

There is a reason you are called a Buddha and a bodhisattva and known as the official crybaby. The Goat Earth of your day branch is the Performer, so you sit in a seat where giving away the warmth inside you, as if feeding others, is second nature. With the Heavenly Doctor Star in your year branch as well, you cannot simply pass by someone else’s pain, and the moment you opened your arms first to a trainee who had made a mistake, asking “Will you give me a hug?”, likely came from this grain. Yet your Needle Star sits on your year stem, month stem, month branch and day branch. That eye for digging into fine detail easily pierces you yourself before it pierces anyone else. Just as you said in an interview that you were sometimes strict as a leader, that sharp standard was a shield to keep the members from getting hurt out in the world. And at night, the same blade likely turned back toward you.

What sets this chart apart from other Fire Goat Day Pillars is that the Peach Blossom Star, Prime Fortune and the Heavenly Kitchen Noble overlap in a single seat, the Horse Fire of your month branch. That Horse Fire is also bound to the Goat Earth of your day branch in the Horse–Goat combination. With the seat of your work and the seat of yourself tied by a single cord, you become someone for whom the stage is you and you are the stage. The restlessness of feeling that you yourself might disappear if you put your work down comes from here. The warmth of the ENFJ you have named also points the same way as your chart’s lean toward Feeling, so this warmth is not put on but your inborn nature.

You are someone who holds three strengths together: the strength to rise on your own, the strength to make things and show them, and the strength to teach. With the Companion and the Rival backing you thickly, you have the drive to take the lead and push forward. The Goat Earth of your day branch and the Yin Earth inside the Horse Fire, both the Performer, let that strength flow out into movement and work, and the Yang Wood of your month stem, the Nurturer, puts all of it into words others can learn from. Having been a student of Spela and the only male member of the crew, and having stood as a backup dancer behind the stages of big award shows and ceremonies, was a start true to the Prime Structure. It is the grain of climbing the stairs on skill alone, with no seat handed down. Standing now as the team’s choreography teacher and as an MC of M Countdown is exactly the seat where these three strengths are used all at once.

If I name the roads that suit you, there are three. The first is making and teaching choreography. The outlet through which the overflowing fire can flow into results is the earth of the Performer, which matches the Balance prescription exactly. The second is the work of words that tends people’s hearts. That your original dreams were to be a counseling psychologist and an elementary school teacher was likely no accident, since the Nurturer of Yang Wood and the Heavenly Doctor Star in your year branch point to that road together. The third is polishing songs and writing alone at night. It is work that draws up with your own hands the water missing from your chart, so it is the most direct way to use your Vital Element. Between an organization and working alone, you are a vessel that holds an independent seat of your own within an organization, and the scale tips clearly toward independence. There are two places where you can easily trip. With so much of the same fire, shares easily tangle with those standing beside you, and with the fire overflowing, you can easily burn yourself out. So leave the boundaries of each role in writing, and after every deadline, be sure to set aside time to cool down.

Your Vital Element and your Balance Element differ because they serve different aims. The Balance view lets the overflowing strength of your Day Master flow out into earth and be put to use, while the overall view and the Climate view govern the heat and dryness of midsummer with water. The character the Climate view looks to is Yang Water, like a great river, and it appears nowhere in the known pillars of this chart nor in the stems hidden within them. Its function stands only when it comes in through your luck. That is also why earth is needed for balance and at the same time on the conditional caution list. Metal, which gives birth to water, is your Support Element. Earth, which takes in fire, turns it to use and props up water, is a helping energy, but only when it covers over the waterway you truly need does it become a burden. Put in terms of work, the moment the results on stage keep growing while the time that would cool you disappears is exactly that boundary.

Your wealth comes in widely but stays only a short time. The Yin Metal of your year stem, the Dynamic Wealth, is the star of big opportunities that arrive riding the stage and the public, and inside the Snake Fire of your year branch the Yang Metal of the Steady Wealth lies hidden. Yet the flames around them are so strong that money that comes in tends to dry up before it can settle. That is why this chart is read as a structure that cannot fully carry its Wealth stars. On top of that, the same fire is layered again and again, so beside every place you earn, there are always hands standing ready to take a share.

The news that you donated 100 million won to Good Neighbors on your third debut anniversary is the Performer and the Heavenly Doctor Star of this chart finding their road. Giving itself is what keeps you alive. But the Fire Horse year of 2026 and the Fire Goat year of 2027 are years when the Companion and Rival stars pile up, so you need to watch competition and the shares you split. From the Earth Monkey year of 2028 to the Metal Dog year of 2030, the energy of metal and earth comes in, and it is a time when wealth takes shape. The road by which money reaches real substance is your talent piling up as results with a name on them. That means work that lasts, such as choreography and songs you made yourself, and hosting. So each time, check how the share of such work is decided.

There is one thing to do starting this month. On the day a settlement comes in, set aside on the spot a share to lock away untouched for the long term and a share for giving, and move them into separate vessels. Give only within the vessel you set aside, and when your hand starts to reach beyond it, wait a day and look again.

The star of your partner is the star of metal. The Yin Metal of the Dynamic Wealth showing on your year stem points to someone bright and lively who brings in the wind of the wider world. The Yang Metal of the Steady Wealth hidden inside the Snake Fire is someone neat, with a clear sense of reality. So outwardly your eye goes to someone full of energy, while inwardly you wish for someone who will stand firmly by your side. In the Goat Earth of your day branch, the seat of your partner, sit the Performer and the Crown stage, together with the Red Romance Star and the Hidden Prosperity Star. It means a quiet charm that draws people in, and bonds that help each other where no one sees, dwell in that seat. That Goat Earth is bound to the Horse Fire of your month branch in the Horse–Goat combination, so bonds easily form close to where you work, and work and heart easily mix together.

No relationship of yours has been made public, so I will touch only on the grain. This chart gives everything away yet is clumsy at receiving. The seat of your partner, where the Performer sits, is a seat of caring for others, so when the other person tries to care for you, it easily feels strange instead. If, as you said in an interview, loving yourself is what lets you give your fans trust, the same principle holds just as true for bonds. The person who suits you is someone with the grain of water, someone who listens deeply even with few words and calmly settles your heat. The time when bonds move is from 2028 to 2030, when the Wealth stars of metal come in. In the Water Ox year of 2033, the Ox–Goat Clash shakes the seat of your partner, so you will need to look especially closely at the rhythm of daily life in your close relationship.

There is one thing to do starting today. Once a day, instead of saying thank you, say one sentence out loud to someone close to you: “Right now, I need this.”

This chart is a board where the heat and dryness of midsummer have reached their peak, so energy rises fast and the road to cooling is narrow. While the fire blazes on stage, it feels as if you could hold out forever, but when the curtain falls it drains out all at once, and body and mind easily dry up together. If your sleep grows shallow, your speech speeds up and your eyes redden first over small things, that is the sign the fire has overflowed.

What you have shared, that your favorite time of day is dawn, is a precious clue for this chart. Night and dawn are when the energy of water runs deepest, so if you use those hours not for practice but for rest, you can draw up, little by little each day, the water missing from your chart. After a stage ends, keep a short ritual of bringing down your body’s heat and keeping water close. In the three summer months, when the sun is hottest, and in December, which strikes your month branch head-on, leaving room in advance to catch your breath between schedules is the way to look after your body. If discomfort keeps on, then borrowing a doctor’s eye comes first.

The Fire Horse year of 2026 is a year when another layer of the same fire is laid on you. Its Yang Fire stem is the Rival and its Horse Fire branch is the Companion, so this is a year in which caution leads. It means a year to watch competition and the shares you split. If I choose one word for this year, it is standing alone. You, who called Boys Planet “the first chance in my life to become the main character,” stood on stage alone with your first solo mini album, DEAD:ALIVE, on October 12, and announced that you would carry team and solo work side by side from now on. The Companion is a colleague who stands beside you and the Rival is a colleague who splits the share, so the question this year’s luck put to you was exactly how to walk those two roads together.

There is a clear tailwind. The Yin Metal of your present Decade Luck and the Yang Fire of this year lock together in a combination, so your luck flows in harmony. This year’s Horse Fire reaches the Goat Earth of your day branch in the Horse–Goat combination, so harmony in close relationships and contact with new bonds also come easily. Whether that combination truly leads to stability, though, has to be seen together with other conditions. The side to watch is clear too. This year’s Horse Fire doubles up with the Horse Fire of your month branch in the Self-Punishment, and the water that would govern the heat does not come in this year either, so the shield that could protect you is thin. Check important decisions once more, and leave room in your schedule.

Of the two months left, November is a month when the flow holds you up a little, though with conditions attached. Rather than starting something new, it is a good month to put what you gained from solo work into the team’s language and organize it. December is a month when that month’s Rat Water strikes the Horse Fire of your month branch head-on, so even as year-end stages pile up, book rest between schedules first. The Fire Goat year of 2027 is also a year when the Companion and Rival stars carry on. Firming up in writing, through next year, the shares and boundaries of team and solo that you set this year is the way to cross these two years.

Let me begin with the road you have walked. The Water Snake Decade Luck, from age three to twelve, was a level stretch in which the water of your Vital Element brushed past briefly and soon dried up in the fire of the Snake. The first peak of your life was the Water Dragon Decade Luck, from age thirteen to twenty-two, from around June 2014 to around June 2024. These were ten years in which Yang Water, your Vital Element, came in as the stem of the Decade Luck and shaped you with the discipline of the Noble Authority, while the Dragon Earth became the outlet of the Creative and let the overflowing fire flow out into dance. The Earth Dog year of 2018 was a year when the Dragon Earth of the Decade Luck and the Dog Earth of the year formed the Dragon–Dog Clash. It was a year when the flow of those ten years bent once and you chose your direction anew. Your time as a backup dancer behind big stages came around then too. In 2023, entering Boys Planet, you had even finished your military physical exam, resolved to give up your dream and enlist right away if you could not debut there. That resolve likely bore fruit at the tail end of those ten years, while water was still present.

Now you stand in the Metal Rabbit Decade Luck, from age twenty-three to thirty-two, from around June 2024 to around June 2034. The Yin Metal of its stem, the Dynamic Wealth, opens the stage and the public wide, and the Rabbit Wood of its branch, the Mystic, gives an unusual intuition and a sense for digging deep alone. But the Rabbit Wood sits in the seat of the Void, so it takes time for that sense to harden into results you can hold. These ten years are a stretch in which help and caution are about even, yet the grain differs sharply from year to year inside it. 2026 and 2027 are years to watch competition and shares, and from the Earth Monkey year of 2028 to the Metal Dog year of 2030 come three years that hold you up. Then, in the Metal Pig year of 2031, comes the Snake–Pig Clash, in which Pig Water strikes the Snake Fire of your year branch. The Water Rat year of 2032, though a year when water comes in, collides head-on with the strong fire through the Rat–Horse Clash, in which Rat Water strikes the Horse Fire of your month branch, so, together with 2031, it is a year most likely to shake you hard in these ten years. In the Water Ox year of 2033, the Ox–Goat Clash shakes your day branch, so decide in advance, ahead of these three years, what you will protect.

After that comes the Metal Tiger Decade Luck, from age thirty-three to forty-two, from around June 2034 to around June 2044. The Yang Metal of the Steady Wealth and the Tiger Wood of the Nurturer come in, so it is a level stretch in which wealth built up steadily and the work of teaching stand together. Yet there are times when the Yang Metal collides with the Yang Wood of your month stem in the Yang Wood–Yang Metal Clash and your will is bent, and the Tiger Wood rekindles the fire with the Horse Fire of your month branch in the Tiger–Horse half combination, so here too the habit of cooling down is the key. Then the Earth Ox Decade Luck, from age forty-three to fifty-two, from around June 2044 to around June 2054, is a mixed stretch that holds both help and caution. The earth of the Performer comes in thickly, good for harvesting what you have built, but the Ox Earth tangles with the Goat Earth of your day branch in the Ox–Goat Clash and with the Horse Fire of your month branch in the Ox–Horse Resentment, so your work and your closest seat sway together. So prepare for that stretch on its own. Beyond it, only in the Earth Rat Decade Luck that begins at fifty-three does water enter the branches for the first time, making it far easier to govern the heat, but that too is a mixed stretch. In the end, the present Metal Rabbit decade is a time to use the stage that has opened wide while choosing what to protect before the shaking to come.

When I set the ENFJ you have named side by side with your saju, on the axis of Sensing and Intuition both lenses point toward Intuition. The Yang Wood of your month stem, the Nurturer, gives you a long view and a sense of the flow beyond what shows on the surface, so even when you plan movement on stage, you are likely someone who sees the picture first. On the axis of Thinking and Feeling as well, your saju and your type sit alike on the side of Feeling. The care of the Performer and the empathy of the Heavenly Doctor Star hold this up, so these two axes are strengths you can trust and use without doubt.

Two axes part ways. On the axis of Extraversion and Introversion, your saju leans toward Introversion, but the two calculations disagree, so that lean is weak. Simply see both your liveliness on stage and your time alone at dawn as your own faces. On the axis of Judging and Perceiving, a single calculation from the Ten Gods points toward Perceiving. As in the story that you became leader through a personality test, while you led the team with the Judging face that plans and organizes, a grain that wants to ride the flow and move by feel was likely holding its breath inside. Here lies one reason the weight of leadership felt unusually heavy. Holding a fixed frame was never a garment that sat easily on you.

The ENFJ way to use your Vital Element is to set aside, in place of conversations where you lead many, conversations where you sit face to face with one person and listen for a long time. For you, who speak on behalf of many, the energy of water is depth and stillness. Listening to one person’s story to the end and briefly writing down what you felt that night becomes the most natural way for you to cool down. When the energy of the Nurturer enters the branches in the Metal Tiger Decade Luck from thirty-three, this grain of listening and teaching will grow even stronger.

That spring, the musician of the Lisbon docks received from the merchant an offer to board the ship as its musician. Even so, he could not leave behind his fellow musicians who had no work, and in the end he stayed on the docks. Afterward, too, he lived mending other people’s instruments and giving away his own spot. The melodies he made spread to the far seas on the lips of sailors, but his name never hung in the banquet hall of any noble house. In those days the same Peach Blossom Star could hold only the footsteps on the dockside, but is today’s world not linking that pull straight to a stage bearing your name and to the countless people waiting for that stage? If what that musician lacked was a stage bearing his name and people to remember that name, then for you, who already have both, the task left is not to give away even your own share to others.

First, split work and money into two steps. In 2026 and 2027, set down in writing the boundaries of roles, settlements and time between team and solo. From the Earth Monkey year of 2028 to the Metal Dog year of 2030, push hard on results that carry your name and last, such as choreography and songs you made yourself.

Second, go to the side of people with the grain of water. People who think deeply, speak little and listen well, the philosopher, artist and adviser types, are the ones who fill you. Composers’ work circles, writing groups and gatherings of people studying counseling are such places, so before 2027 is out, make one seat for yourself there where you are not the leader.

Third, for body and mind, bring the energy of water into the place you stay. Put deep navy on the north wall of the room where you work or in your late-night lighting. Make the moment you drink a glass of water under that light before sleep your signal that the day is over, and starting even before this December arrives, build the habit of giving dawn over to rest.

Fourth, prepare first for the shaking to come. 2031 and 2032 are years when the strong fire collides head-on, so within 2030, when the three supporting years end, decide what you will protect and what you will let go. Before you cross into the Metal Tiger Decade Luck around June 2034, sow ahead of time the seeds of the teaching work you will use then.

In the Earth Monkey year of 2028, the energy of earth and metal comes in and forms the Snake–Monkey combination with the Snake Fire of your year branch, opening a road that leans toward water. Whether that combination truly becomes water depends on conditions, though, so there is one thing for you to watch that year: whether a night of your own still remains outside the stage. What you made that year and which road you chose, I will see when I open this chart again then. Beside your midsummer fire, may a stream of water that never runs dry keep flowing.