Born in 1994

What 1994 carries

From the community: Loyal, honest, protective, responsible, intuitive. Can be stubborn, anxious, or pessimistic.

From the year: Reserved and upright; tends to live discreetly, avoiding showiness or self-promotion.

The year's Plant controls the community's Earth. The year holds the community in check rather than the other way round, so the Wolf 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 Wolf Spirit Guardian's page — character, love, work and the communities it is bound to.

All of that is about being born in 1994. 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.

1994 with the years around it

Every year from 1982 to 2006, read against 1994. 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 1994 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.

• 1999— the Cat Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1998— the Lion Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1990— the Horse Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1988— the Dragon Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1993— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 1994?

1994 belongs to the Wolf Spirit Guardian, the community of protection, 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 1994 reads differently from 1958 and 1970.

What element is 1994?

Plant (+) — Reserved and upright; tends to live discreetly, avoiding showiness or self-promotion. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Earth the Wolf Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 1994 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1994. 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 1993 and to the Eagle 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 1994?

1999 (Cat Spirit Guardian), 1998 (Lion Spirit Guardian), 1990 (Horse Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1988 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.