Type No. 168 of 576
the Patient Garden × the Feast at the Long Table
Steadiness × Sincerity × 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.
Pig
The Pig — in Japan read as the Boar, the straight-charging messenger of the mountains — is the feast at the long table. This thread tends to be sincere to a fault and generous past the point of caution.
It approaches life head-on: say the true thing, share the good thing, charge at the hard thing.
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: honesty — people relax around a Pig because the performance is over
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.