Born in 2010

What 2010 carries

From the community: Courageous, ambitious, energetic, independent, charismatic. Can be impulsive, rebellious, impatient, or prone to risk-taking.

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

All of that is about being born in 2010. 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.

2010 with the years around it

Every year from 1998 to 2022, read against 2010. 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 2010 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.

• 2007— the Elephant Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 2014— the Horse Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2006— the Wolf Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2004— the Monkey Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 2013— the Snake Spirit Guardian,harm

The other Metal (+) year in the Lion Spirit Guardian's cycle

A community turning every twelve years against an element turning every ten means a signature repeats every sixty. 2010 and 1950 are the two years in this catalogue that share one: the same Lion Spirit Guardian, the same Metal (+) behind it. What separates them is everything they are read against — the people either year is likely to be seated beside were born sixty years apart.

Frequently asked

Which Spirit Guardian rules 2010?

2010 belongs to the Lion Spirit Guardian, the community of action, with Plant 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 2010 reads differently from 1950 and 1962.

What element is 2010?

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 Plant the Lion Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 2010 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 2010. 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 2009 and to the Taurus 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 2010?

2007 (Elephant Spirit Guardian), 2014 (Horse Spirit Guardian), 2006 (Wolf Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 2004 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.