Born in 1999

What 1999 carries

From the community: Diplomatic, intuitive, artistic, compassionate, cautious. May avoid conflict, be indecisive, overly sensitive, or secretive.

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 Plant controls the year's Earth. This is the pressed position: the Cat Spirit Guardian's character sets the terms and the year's element concedes them, so the traits below run stronger here than in the community's other years, with less to temper them.

The community itself is written out in full on the Cat Spirit Guardian's page — character, love, work and the communities it is bound to.

All of that is about being born in 1999. 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.

1999 with the years around it

Every year from 1987 to 2011, read against 1999. 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 1999 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.

• 1994— the Wolf Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 2003— the Goat Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1995— the Elephant Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1993— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 2000— the Dragon Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 1999?

1999 belongs to the Cat Spirit Guardian, the community of diplomacy, with Plant 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 1999 reads differently from 1951 and 1963.

What element is 1999?

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 Plant the Cat Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 1999 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 1999. 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 1998 and to the Lion 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 1999?

1994 (Wolf Spirit Guardian), 2003 (Goat Spirit Guardian), 1995 (Elephant Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1993 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.