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The Black Snake day animal (癸巳) with the stars of Capricorn, ink paintingBlack Snake of Capricorn

Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Black Snake of Capricorn

Carry your quiet. Climb, one ledge at a time.

The Black Snake of Capricorn is a Sky Pair: the Black Snake day animal (癸巳) from Korean saju, with the Capricorn 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
Monkey (by day, not birth year)
A small step today
Take time to play today, not work
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 snake (巳): deep and quiet — you think three moves ahead. Capricorn is earth: once you set a goal, you climb it one step at a time.

When the Black Snake fights

When you fightCalm outside, a whirlpool within.Your face is still, but inside you're weighing dozens of outcomes.

How you're misreadPeople think you don't care.You care so much that nothing comes out.

Your strength in a conflictYou see what's coming.You see where the fight is heading and find a way around it.

What Capricorn addsYou fold up the feeling and treat it like a task.Capricorn earth puts feelings on hold. One line of feeling before the fix.

One small stepSay one of your inner calculations out loud.

癸巳계사

Old name · 黑蛇

The same Black Snake, another sky

Under a different sign, the same animal walks differently.

Drawn to the Black Snake: the Monkey

六合

The snake and the monkey pull toward each other. Five of them, under Capricorn.