Haru
Doha
Kang
Seora
Bomi
NariTen years at a time
Your life is divided into ten-year cycles, each one carrying two characters of its own. People call it the luck cycle.
Lesson 7
Luck cycles: your life in ten-year seasons
The eight characters you were born with never change. What changes is what walks past them — in ten-year blocks, and once a year.
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It is a season, not a verdict
A cycle does not hand out good and bad. It says which element is loud for a decade, and what that tends to do to a chart like yours.
Years have characters too
Every year gets its own two characters and meets your Day Master the same way a person would: feeding it, draining it, or pushing back.
This is where timing comes from
When a reading says a period is good for starting things, this is the layer it is reading — not a mood.
Where your cycle starts needs a time
The age your first cycle begins depends on your birth time and the nearest solar term, so a time makes this layer much sharper.
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This year, against you
The current saju year, and how its element meets your Day Master.
In one line
Fixed chart, moving weather. Timing is the weather.
Quick questions
- Does a bad year mean something bad will happen?
- No. It means the year leans against your element, which usually shows up as structure, effort and other people having opinions. It describes tendencies, not events.
- When does a saju year change?
- At the solar term in early February, not on 1 January — which is why January birthdays surprise people.
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