Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Rat of Pisces

Carry your big mind. Follow the tide.

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

Rest for 10 minutes, doing nothing

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. Pisces is water: you feel what others feel, and drift between dream and real.

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

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

壬子임자

Old name · 黑鼠