The Taurus and Eagle Spirit Guardians

Together

Two communities with standards and the patience to meet them. The Taurus Spirit Guardian supplies endurance and the Eagle Spirit Guardian supplies exactness, and Earth feeding Metal describes it precisely: the ground the Taurus Spirit Guardian holds is what lets the Eagle Spirit Guardian be as particular as it wants to be. Work these two finish does not need checking.

What it costs

It is a demanding place to live. The Eagle Spirit Guardian corrects and the Taurus Spirit Guardian does not forget, so criticism accumulates instead of clearing. Both communities are also slow to concede that a standard was wrong in the first place, which means an error agreed early can be defended for a very long time.

All 64 birth-year combinations

Grouped by the Taurus 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 Taurus Spirit Guardian
• The Eagle Spirit Guardian

Frequently asked

Are the Taurus and Eagle 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?

1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021, 2033 on one side and 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017, 2029, 2041 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 1985 with 1993 and 1997 with 2005 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 Taurus Spirit Guardian and the Eagle Spirit Guardian are not the whole answer about anybody.