Born in 1970

What 1970 carries

From the community: Loyal, honest, protective, responsible, intuitive. Can be stubborn, anxious, or pessimistic.

From the year: Strong, resilient, and highly determined. Possesses a strong sense of justice, loyalty, and moral courage; willing to fight for truth and protect the vulnerable.

The community's Earth feeds the year's Metal. This is the supported position: the Wolf Spirit Guardian's instincts arrive already resourced, so a person born here tends to get further on the same effort than the community alone would predict.

The community itself is written out in full on the Wolf Spirit Guardian's page — character, love, work and the communities it is bound to.

All of that is about being born in 1970. What a year does to the people living through it is a separate reading on a separate clock — and, unlike the community above, it does not move at the lunar new year. That is the Year scale of Time Analysis, one of five.

1970 with the years around it

Every year from 1958 to 1982, read against 1970. Twenty-five consecutive years contain every community at least twice and never with the same element behind it, which is the clearest demonstration of the thing these pages keep asserting: the community comes back, the reading does not.

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.

The birth years 1970 is bound to

Nobody goes looking for a community. They go looking for the person born in a particular year, so the four relations worth naming are given here as the nearest year that carries each.

• 1975— the Cat Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1974— the Lion Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1966— the Horse Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1964— the Dragon Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1969— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,harm

The other Metal (+) year in the Wolf Spirit Guardian's cycle

A community turning every twelve years against an element turning every ten means a signature repeats every sixty. 1970 and 2030 are the two years in this catalogue that share one: the same Wolf Spirit Guardian, the same Metal (+) behind it. What separates them is everything they are read against — the people either year is likely to be seated beside were born sixty years apart.

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 1970?

1970 belongs to the Wolf Spirit Guardian, the community of protection, with Earth as its own element. The year's element pillar is Metal (+), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 1970 reads differently from 1958 and 1982.

What element is 1970?

Metal (+) — Strong, resilient, and highly determined. Possesses a strong sense of justice, loyalty, and moral courage; willing to fight for truth and protect the vulnerable. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Earth the Wolf Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 1970 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1970. Is this still my year?

Probably not. The cycle turns at Lunar New Year rather than on 1 January, so a birth in January or the first days of February usually belongs to 1969 and to the Eagle Spirit Guardian. Roughly one birth in eight sits on the wrong side of that line. Add your month and day on the board and it settles the question rather than guessing.

Which birth years are most compatible with 1970?

1975 (Cat Spirit Guardian), 1974 (Lion Spirit Guardian), 1966 (Horse Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1964 sits on the opposing axis. Those are branch relations only, which is the first of four layers the board reads and carries weight 0.30 of the result; the other three read the two charts rather than the two communities, so a clash here is a starting point and not a conclusion.