Born in 1978

What 1978 carries

From the community: Energetic, adventurous, charismatic, independent, competitive. Can be impulsive, restless, or domineering.

From the year: Kind, sincere, warm, yet private and very honest. Quite introverted, prefers a stable and secure life, feels uneasy when facing change.

The community's Fire feeds the year's Earth. This is the supported position: the Horse 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 Horse Spirit Guardian's page — character, love, work and the communities it is bound to.

All of that is about being born in 1978. 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.

1978 with the years around it

Every year from 1966 to 1990, read against 1978. 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 1978 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.

• 1979— the Goat Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1974— the Lion Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1982— the Wolf Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1972— the Whale Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1973— the Taurus Spirit Guardian,harm

The other Earth (+) year in the Horse Spirit Guardian's cycle

A community turning every twelve years against an element turning every ten means a signature repeats every sixty. 1978 and 2038 are the two years in this catalogue that share one: the same Horse Spirit Guardian, the same Earth (+) 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 1978?

1978 belongs to the Horse Spirit Guardian, the community of climax, with Fire as its own element. The year's element pillar is Earth (+), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 1978 reads differently from 1954 and 1966.

What element is 1978?

Earth (+) — Kind, sincere, warm, yet private and very honest. Quite introverted, prefers a stable and secure life, feels uneasy when facing change. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Fire the Horse Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 1978 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1978. 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 1977 and to the Snake 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 1978?

1979 (Goat Spirit Guardian), 1974 (Lion Spirit Guardian), 1982 (Wolf Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1972 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.