Born in 2014

What 2014 carries

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

From the year: Reserved and upright; tends to live discreetly, avoiding showiness or self-promotion.

The year's Plant feeds the community's Fire. The generosity runs outward — this birth year spends itself on what the Horse Spirit Guardian is trying to build, which is productive and quietly costly, and it is the combination most likely to need a rest it does not ask for.

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 2014. 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.

2014 with the years around it

Every year from 2002 to 2026, read against 2014. 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 2014 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.

• 2015— the Goat Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 2010— the Lion Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2018— the Wolf Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2008— the Whale Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 2009— the Taurus Spirit Guardian,harm

The other Plant (+) year in the Horse Spirit Guardian's cycle

A community turning every twelve years against an element turning every ten means a signature repeats every sixty. 2014 and 1954 are the two years in this catalogue that share one: the same Horse Spirit Guardian, the same Plant (+) 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 2014?

2014 belongs to the Horse Spirit Guardian, the community of climax, with Fire as its own element. The year's element pillar is Plant (+), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 2014 reads differently from 1954 and 1966.

What element is 2014?

Plant (+) — Reserved and upright; tends to live discreetly, avoiding showiness or self-promotion. 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 2014 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 2014. 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 2013 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 2014?

2015 (Goat Spirit Guardian), 2010 (Lion Spirit Guardian), 2018 (Wolf Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 2008 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.