Type No. 167 of 576
the Patient Garden × the Guard at the Gate
Steadiness × Loyalty × the Free Thread
Taurus
Taurus is the sign of the tended garden. This thread tends to build slowly and keep what it builds — comfort, craft, and loyalty grow in the same soil.
Dog
The Dog is the guard at the gate. This thread tends to divide the world into 'mine to protect' and 'not mine' — and for the first group, there is no limit it will not cross.
It approaches life by vigilance: trust slowly, then completely.
Type B
Type B is read, in the Japanese custom, as the free thread — the one that leaves the pattern to see what the cloth could be. This reading tends to follow real interest rather than the schedule on the wall.
In practice, the B thread works best with room to roam and a deadline that is real; its honesty about what it actually wants is a form of respect.
The shadow in this thread is the abandoned loom: a new fascination can quietly inherit the time owed to an old promise.
Strengths and tender spots
Strength: endurance that turns small daily care into something lasting
Gift: devotion — promises made by a Dog are kept in weather that cancels other people's
Tender spot: holding a course long after the season for it has changed
Read with tonight's moon
A type is only half the reading; the other half is the moon it is read under. The free diagnostic on the top page reads your type together with tonight's moon phase.