Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Ox of Pisces

Carry your quiet. Follow the tide.

The Black Ox of Pisces is a Sky Pair: the Black Ox day animal (癸丑) from Korean saju, with the Pisces sun sign from Western astrology. There are 720 Sky Pairs in all.

What lifts you

quiet sensitivity

What to watch

holding it all in

Drawn-to day animal

Rat (by day, not birth year)

A small step today

Rest for 10 minutes, doing nothing

What brings luck

colour red · direction south · numbers 2, 7

The black comes from 癸, rain. Soft as rain, and just as hard to stop. The ox (丑): steady and patient — you finish what others drop. Pisces is water: you feel what others feel, and drift between dream and real.

When the Black Ox fights

When you fightYou go cold and quiet.Like frozen ground, when you're angry the words freeze.

How you're misreadPeople call you cold.Even while frozen, you're still thinking inside.

Your strength in a conflictYou bear it for them.You stay through hard times longer than anyone.

What Pisces addsYou carry their feelings as well as yours.Pisces water floods you with empathy. Look after your own heart first.

One small stepBefore you freeze: "I can't find the words right now."

癸丑계축

Old name · 黑牛