Born in 2007

What 2007 carries

From the community: Generous, sincere, peaceful, indulgent, fortunate. Can be naive, over-trusting, or complacent.

From the year: Cheerful and always smiling; content and happy. Gentle, caring, compassionate. Introverted, calm, steadfast, thoughtful, and fond of preserving old traditions.

The community's Water controls the year's Fire. This is the pressed position: the Elephant 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 Elephant Spirit Guardian's page — character, love, work and the communities it is bound to.

All of that is about being born in 2007. 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.

2007 with the years around it

Every year from 1995 to 2019, read against 2007. 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 2007 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.

• 2010— the Lion Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 2011— the Cat Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2003— the Goat Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2001— the Snake Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 2004— the Monkey Spirit Guardian,harm

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 2007?

2007 belongs to the Elephant Spirit Guardian, the community of abundance, with Water as its own element. The year's element pillar is Fire (-), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 2007 reads differently from 1959 and 1971.

What element is 2007?

Fire (-) — Cheerful and always smiling; content and happy. Gentle, caring, compassionate. Introverted, calm, steadfast, thoughtful, and fond of preserving old traditions. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Water the Elephant Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 2007 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 2007. 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 2006 and to the Wolf 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 2007?

2010 (Lion Spirit Guardian), 2011 (Cat Spirit Guardian), 2003 (Goat Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 2001 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.