Born in 2002

What 2002 carries

From the community: Energetic, adventurous, charismatic, independent, competitive. Can be impulsive, restless, or domineering.

From the year: Adaptable, quick, flexible, and able to adjust to different situations. Possesses self-restraint, generosity, magnanimity, and a protective spirit, full of bravery.

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

All of that is about being born in 2002. 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.

2002 with the years around it

Every year from 1990 to 2014, read against 2002. 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 2002 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.

• 2003— the Goat Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 1998— the Lion Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2006— the Wolf Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 1996— the Whale Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 1997— the Taurus Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 2002?

2002 belongs to the Horse Spirit Guardian, the community of climax, with Fire as its own element. The year's element pillar is Water (+), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 2002 reads differently from 1954 and 1966.

What element is 2002?

Water (+) — Adaptable, quick, flexible, and able to adjust to different situations. Possesses self-restraint, generosity, magnanimity, and a protective spirit, full of bravery. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Fire the Horse Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 2002 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 2002. 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 2001 and to the Snake 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 2002?

2003 (Goat Spirit Guardian), 1998 (Lion Spirit Guardian), 2006 (Wolf Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 1996 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.