Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Rat of Taurus

Carry your big mind. Walk slow, walk sure.

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

Eat one meal slowly 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. Taurus is earth: slow to start, impossible to stop once you've decided.

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 Taurus addsOnce decided, you don't move.Taurus earth makes you hold firmer. Agree on a time to let it go.

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

壬子임자

Old name · 黑鼠