The Lion and Horse Spirit Guardians

Together

The fastest pairing in the twelve and the least interested in permission. The Lion Spirit Guardian and the Horse Spirit Guardian share courage, appetite and an unwillingness to be managed, and Plant feeds Fire, so the Lion Spirit Guardian's ambition genuinely fuels the Horse Spirit Guardian's momentum. What these two build, they build quickly, and they tend to be halfway through it before anybody has been consulted.

What it costs

Two impulsive communities and no brake between them. Neither will be the one counselling caution, and both read hesitation as weakness, so the mistakes are large and they arrive together. It competes, too: independence in both means neither concedes a decision easily, and the disagreements are loud rather than long. What this pairing never develops on its own is the habit of stopping to check, because stopping has never yet been the thing that hurt it.

All 64 birth-year combinations

Grouped by the Lion Spirit Guardian's year. Within each group the branch relation is fixed and only the element cycle moves, which is the whole reason a pairing is not one answer.

These readings are the first of the board's four layers — the birth years alone — and it carries weight 0.30 of the result. The other three read the two charts rather than the two communities, so a strong or difficult year layer is where a reading starts, not where it lands.

Either community on its own

• The Lion Spirit Guardian
• The Horse Spirit Guardian

Frequently asked

Are the Lion and Horse Spirit Guardians compatible?

The board reads them as three-harmony allies, among the stronger branch relations in the twelve. On the first of four layers the pairing scores between 64 and 84, depending on which two birth years are actually being read — the branch relation is fixed, the year elements are not. That layer carries weight 0.30 and reads the birth years only; the other three read the two charts, so this is where a reading starts rather than where it lands.

Which birth years does this pairing cover?

1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022, 2034 on one side and 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026, 2038 on the other — 64 combinations in total, and they do not all read alike. The community repeats every twelve years but the year element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 1986 with 1990 and 1998 with 2002 are two different readings of the same pairing.

Does a strong branch relation mean this pairing always works?

No. It means the year layer starts high, and that layer is 0.30 of four. Two people whose communities agree can still differ everywhere the charts are read, which is exactly why the Lion Spirit Guardian and the Horse Spirit Guardian are not the whole answer about anybody.