Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Rooster of Sagittarius

Carry your quiet. Go further than the map.

The Black Rooster of Sagittarius is a Sky Pair: the Black Rooster day animal (癸酉) from Korean saju, with the Sagittarius 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

Walk a road you've never taken

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. Sagittarius is fire: you look far ahead and long for open roads.

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 Sagittarius addsYour honesty flies like an arrow.Sagittarius fire makes you blunter. Blunt the arrowhead once.

One small stepBefore one criticism, one thank-you.

癸酉계유

Old name · 黑鷄