Born in 2000

What 2000 carries

From the community: Charismatic, ambitious, pioneering, energetic, lucky. Can be domineering, impulsive, prideful, or restless.

From the year: Strong, resilient, and highly determined. Possesses a strong sense of justice, loyalty, and moral courage; willing to fight for truth and protect the vulnerable.

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

All of that is about being born in 2000. 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.

2000 with the years around it

Every year from 1988 to 2012, read against 2000. 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 2000 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.

• 2005— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1996— the Whale Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2004— the Monkey Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1994— the Wolf Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1999— the Cat Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 2000?

2000 belongs to the Dragon Spirit Guardian, the community of power, with Earth as its own element. The year's element pillar is Metal (+), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 2000 reads differently from 1952 and 1964.

What element is 2000?

Metal (+) — Strong, resilient, and highly determined. Possesses a strong sense of justice, loyalty, and moral courage; willing to fight for truth and protect the vulnerable. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Earth the Dragon Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 2000 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 2000. 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 1999 and to the Cat 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 2000?

2005 (Eagle Spirit Guardian), 1996 (Whale Spirit Guardian), 2004 (Monkey Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1994 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.