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The Black Rooster day animal (癸酉) with the stars of Aries, ink paintingBlack Rooster of Aries

Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Rooster of Aries

Carry your quiet. Take the first step.

The Black Rooster of Aries is a Sky Pair: the Black Rooster day animal (癸酉) from Korean saju, with the Aries 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
Dragon (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 癸, rain. Soft as rain, and just as hard to stop. The rooster (酉): precise and honest — sometimes too honest. Aries is the sign of beginnings: you move first, and waiting wears you out.

When the Black Rooster fights

When you fightYou point it out precisely.You can see exactly what went wrong, so you can't let it go.

How you're misreadPeople say all you do is criticise.You say it because you want things to go well. The praise stays in your head.

Your strength in a conflictYou clean it up.You untangle the argument one thread at a time, so the same fight doesn't come back.

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

One small stepBefore one criticism, one thank-you.

癸酉계유

Old name · 黑鷄

The same Black Rooster, another sky

Under a different sign, the same animal walks differently.

Drawn to the Black Rooster: the Dragon

六合

The rooster and the dragon pull toward each other. Five of them, under Aries.