Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Rat of Aries

Carry your big mind. Take the first step.

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

What lifts you

a big-picture mind

What to watch

drifting everywhere

Drawn-to day animal

Ox (by day, not birth year)

A small step today

Finish one thing you've started, today

What brings luck

colour red · direction south · numbers 2, 7

The black comes from 壬, the ocean. Big mind, restless current — you need room to move. The rat (子): quick and alert — you always find a way through. Aries is the sign of beginnings: you move first, and waiting wears you out.

When the Black Rat fights

When you fightYou sink deep, then flood all at once.Quiet as the ocean, until it rises — and no one can stop it.

How you're misreadPeople say they don't know what's going on inside you.You're deep. It takes time to bring it up.

Your strength in a conflictYou hold everything.You take in every side of them, generously.

What Aries addsYou blow up fast, and forget fast.Aries fire makes you react fast. One breath before the first word.

One small stepBefore the flood, tell them the water is rising.

壬子임자

Old name · 黑鼠