Type No. 272 of 576
the Clear Spring × the Flock on the Green Hill
Independence × Kindness × the Free Thread
Aquarius
Aquarius is the sign of the clear spring. This thread tends to stand a half-step outside the group — not from coldness, but to see the whole pattern.
Goat
The Goat is the flock on the green hill (in some traditions rendered as the Sheep). This thread tends to put the group's comfort first and to make beauty out of ordinary days.
It approaches life by harmony: feed everyone, mend the fence, keep the hill pleasant.
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: original thinking that redesigns the rule everyone else just obeys
Gift: warmth — people heal faster around a Goat, including the Goat, when it remembers itself
Tender spot: explaining the idea when a simple invitation would work better
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.