The Lion and Wolf Spirit Guardians

Together

Courage with a conscience attached. The Lion Spirit Guardian takes the risk and the Wolf Spirit Guardian asks who it lands on, and the Lion Spirit Guardian — unusually — listens, because the Wolf Spirit Guardian's loyalty was never in question. This is the trine pairing most likely to be doing something on somebody else's behalf.

What it costs

The Wolf Spirit Guardian is anxious and the Lion Spirit Guardian is not, and each finds the other's setting difficult to take seriously. Plant controls Earth in the cycle: the Lion Spirit Guardian tends to override, and the Wolf Spirit Guardian tends to absorb it and say nothing until the silence has hardened into a position.

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 Wolf Spirit Guardian

Frequently asked

Are the Lion and Wolf 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 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030, 2042 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 1994 and 1998 with 2006 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 Wolf Spirit Guardian are not the whole answer about anybody.