Born in 1973

What 1973 carries

From the community: Diligent, reliable, patient, resilient, methodical, loyal, pragmatic. May be stubborn, reserved, overly cautious, or resistant to change.

From the year: Always calm, gentle, and tender, with an introverted nature. Careful, composed, and principled in all actions.

The community's Earth controls the year's Water. This is the pressed position: the Taurus Spirit Guardian's character sets the terms and the year's element concedes them, so the traits below run stronger here than in the community's other years, with less to temper them.

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

All of that is about being born in 1973. 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.

1973 with the years around it

Every year from 1961 to 1985, read against 1973. 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 1973 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.

• 1972— the Whale Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1977— the Snake Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1969— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1967— the Goat Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1978— the Horse Spirit Guardian,harm

The other Water (-) year in the Taurus Spirit Guardian's cycle

A community turning every twelve years against an element turning every ten means a signature repeats every sixty. 1973 and 2033 are the two years in this catalogue that share one: the same Taurus Spirit Guardian, the same Water (-) 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 1973?

1973 belongs to the Taurus Spirit Guardian, the community of foundation, with Earth as its own element. The year's element pillar is Water (-), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 1973 reads differently from 1949 and 1961.

What element is 1973?

Water (-) — Always calm, gentle, and tender, with an introverted nature. Careful, composed, and principled in all actions. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Earth the Taurus Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 1973 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1973. 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 1972 and to the Whale 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 1973?

1972 (Whale Spirit Guardian), 1977 (Snake Spirit Guardian), 1969 (Eagle Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1967 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.