Born in 1986

What 1986 carries

From the community: Courageous, ambitious, energetic, independent, charismatic. Can be impulsive, rebellious, impatient, or prone to risk-taking.

From the year: Strong-willed and persistent; enjoys being noticed and always shines. Passionate, full of energy, dynamic, and drawn to positions of power.

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

All of that is about being born in 1986. 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.

1986 with the years around it

Every year from 1974 to 1998, read against 1986. 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 1986 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.

• 1983— the Elephant Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1990— the Horse Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1982— the Wolf Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1980— the Monkey Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1989— the Snake Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 1986?

1986 belongs to the Lion Spirit Guardian, the community of action, with Plant as its own element. The year's element pillar is Fire (+), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 1986 reads differently from 1950 and 1962.

What element is 1986?

Fire (+) — Strong-willed and persistent; enjoys being noticed and always shines. Passionate, full of energy, dynamic, and drawn to positions of power. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Plant the Lion Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 1986 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1986. 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 1985 and to the Taurus 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 1986?

1983 (Elephant Spirit Guardian), 1990 (Horse Spirit Guardian), 1982 (Wolf Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1980 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.