Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Rat of Leo

Carry your big mind. Walk where you can be seen.

The Black Rat of Leo is a Sky Pair: the Black Rat day animal (壬子) from Korean saju, with the Leo 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

Say out loud one thing you did well 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. Leo is fire: you don't hide your heart, and you shine when you stand in front.

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 Leo addsYour pride gets hurt first.Leo fire makes your pride bigger. It isn't losing — it's being big enough to hold them.

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

壬子임자

Old name · 黑鼠