Born in 1989

What 1989 carries

From the community: Intuitive, analytical, mysterious, strategic, charismatic. Can be secretive, distrustful, possessive, or vengeful.

From the year: Introverted, deep, calm, and patient. Emotionally stable, with excellent self-control. Rarely reveals emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, love, dislike, or resentment.

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

All of that is about being born in 1989. 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.

1989 with the years around it

Every year from 1977 to 2001, read against 1989. 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 1989 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.

• 1992— the Monkey Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1985— the Taurus Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1993— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1983— the Elephant Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1986— the Lion Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 1989?

1989 belongs to the Snake Spirit Guardian, the community of illumination, 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 1989 reads differently from 1953 and 1965.

What element is 1989?

Earth (-) — Introverted, deep, calm, and patient. Emotionally stable, with excellent self-control. Rarely reveals emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, love, dislike, or resentment. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Fire the Snake Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 1989 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1989. 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 1988 and to the Dragon 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 1989?

1992 (Monkey Spirit Guardian), 1985 (Taurus Spirit Guardian), 1993 (Eagle Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1983 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.