Born in 1985

What 1985 carries

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

From the year: Graceful, delicate, petite, gentle, and naturally likable. Highly tactful, kind, eloquent, and able to win others' affection with ease.

The year's Plant controls the community's Earth. The year holds the community in check rather than the other way round, so the Taurus Spirit Guardian's excesses get governed early. It works, and it takes effort that never quite becomes automatic.

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 1985. 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.

1985 with the years around it

Every year from 1973 to 1997, read against 1985. 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 1985 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.

• 1984— the Whale Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1989— the Snake Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1981— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1979— the Goat Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1990— the Horse Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 1985?

1985 belongs to the Taurus Spirit Guardian, the community of foundation, with Earth as its own element. The year's element pillar is Plant (-), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 1985 reads differently from 1949 and 1961.

What element is 1985?

Plant (-) — Graceful, delicate, petite, gentle, and naturally likable. Highly tactful, kind, eloquent, and able to win others' affection with ease. 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 1985 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1985. 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 1984 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 1985?

1984 (Whale Spirit Guardian), 1989 (Snake Spirit Guardian), 1981 (Eagle Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1979 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.