Born in 2018

What 2018 carries

From the community: Loyal, honest, protective, responsible, intuitive. Can be stubborn, anxious, or pessimistic.

From the year: Kind, sincere, warm, yet private and very honest. Quite introverted, prefers a stable and secure life, feels uneasy when facing change.

The year's element and the community's are both Earth. Nothing in this birth year pulls against itself, which reads as consistency from outside and as a narrow range from inside — the Wolf Spirit Guardian's habits arrive undiluted, for better and for worse.

The community itself is written out in full on the Wolf Spirit Guardian's page — character, love, work and the communities it is bound to.

All of that is about being born in 2018. 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.

2018 with the years around it

Every year from 2006 to 2030, read against 2018. 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 2018 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.

• 2023— the Cat Spirit Guardian,secret friend
• 2022— the Lion Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2014— the Horse Spirit Guardian,three-harmony
• 2012— the Dragon Spirit Guardian,opposing axis
• 2017— the Eagle Spirit Guardian,harm

The other Earth (+) year in the Wolf Spirit Guardian's cycle

A community turning every twelve years against an element turning every ten means a signature repeats every sixty. 2018 and 1958 are the two years in this catalogue that share one: the same Wolf Spirit Guardian, the same Earth (+) 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 2018?

2018 belongs to the Wolf Spirit Guardian, the community of protection, with Earth as its own element. The year's element pillar is Earth (+), which is the part that changes: the community returns every twelve years but the element turns on a ten-year cycle, so 2018 reads differently from 1958 and 1970.

What element is 2018?

Earth (+) — Kind, sincere, warm, yet private and very honest. Quite introverted, prefers a stable and secure life, feels uneasy when facing change. That is the year pillar. It sits alongside the Earth the Wolf Spirit Guardian carries in its own right, and the two together are what make 2018 a different reading from every other year of this community.

I was born in January 2018. 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 2017 and to the Eagle 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 2018?

2023 (Cat Spirit Guardian), 2022 (Lion Spirit Guardian), 2014 (Horse Spirit Guardian) — the secret friend first, then the trine. 2012 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.